Sunday, May 31, 2009

Justin's Issues

I know it's been a long time since I wrote about Justin's issues so I am going to try to bring you up to date. We went to speech therapy for 5 or 6 weeks before we moved, with a lady at Ochnser. She was super! Had lots of toys and was able to engage him well. When he was evaluated at 2 yrs 9 months, he tested for speech at a less than two year old level. He did very well in speech but it is hard to say if he progressed a lot because we didn't continue when we got up here (insurance doesn't cover speech unless you've had a stroke here). So I need to look into the state-run program for Iowa.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Swine Flu Info


I was really curious as to why we are freaking out about 190 confirmed cases when there are 300 million people in the U.S.  Compared to the average winter flu, that is a drop in the bucket... there is some evidence out there that this virus was produced as a biological weapon, much like the H5N1 virus (avian flu), but that is conjecture at the moment.

Thought you all might find this interesting.
K

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-swine-reality30-2009apr30\
,0,6192735,print.story
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ne-reality30-2009apr30,0,6192735,print.story




Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild

Genetic data indicate this outbreak won't be as deadly as that of
1918, or even the average winter.