Explanations & Introductions:

I’ve moved on to Blogs. Whether this is a step up or a step otherwise has yet to be determined. What’s important is that I still have a forum to apprise everyone of our family’s happenings and my ideas. I’ll still be putting tons of pictures of Ella on Flickr which you can link to here. Whenever we post videos of Ella online, those will be linked also. This blog thing is liberating and more informal. Feel free to post comments or ask questions if you want. If you don’t, that’s fine too.

I’m still in Med School, my second year. It’s winding down now; I’m in the last module: endocrine & reproduction. I’m finally gonna learn the great secret behind womanhood…Hormones. Now listen up, men. Constancy is fleeting in the female body. Women are allowed a relatively steady stream of hormones in two-week spurts. This allows them to achieve a slight whiff of regularity—so they know what they’re missing when it’s all ripped from them. You see, the hormones change sides halfway through the game. The hormone that was holding back the flood-gates a day earlier, treasonously ushers the flood in on the day following. And that’s the normal physiology! There’s a medical condition called pregnancy that eliminates this cycle and replaces it with a 40week tsunami. This culminates in a coup d’état in which the largest hormone-producing organ in the human (the placenta) is expelled. But if you really want to understand the woman, consider this. No blend of hormones wreaks more chaos than when the hormones go away in the menopausal years. Despite the confusion and disorder of the hormone storm endured for 50+ years, what they end up complaining of most is the lack thereof.