Comic Corner- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Surgeries

Well, I am now home. I'm glad to be home but unfortunately I won't get anymore of the pain medication that was working for me. Oh well I'll deal. 

On the plus side it's Friday which means the weekend and I won't have to go back to school until next Thursday. 

Surgeries

The surgeries went well but this has probably been the hardest of them all. I pretty much spent all day yesterday throwing up, it's gross right. Then the doctors told me tht for every time I did I couldn't eat for two hours after that.

I finally got to eat after I'd pretty much starved for 24 hours and 48 minutes. Yes I kept a close eye on the clock.

Anyways, I get to go home tomorrow, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came to see me. It was a good show of who my actual friends are. It isn't as much that they came to see me but the fact that they checked in and texted me. I heard from more friends out of state than I did from friends that were much closer. So thanks to everyone who showed support I really needed it.

Surgeries

Well boys and girls today is the big day. I haven't been able to eat since last night. I don't get to eat until I wake up from surgery later tonight. Needless to say I am starving. Anyone who has been looking at my myspace can tell that. I'm not really nervous about the surgery I'm just hungry.

I'll keep you updated as soon as I can.

Surgeries/Austin's Artwork

I checked in today. I'm really excited to be here. It's hard to explain but this is one of the few places I feel like I fit in. I've got to see so many people that I haven't seen since the last time I had surgery over a year ago.

Austin decided to draw the doctor's and I some pictures. I'm not going to lie they make me smile every time I look at them.

This is the view from my room. Thanks to Austin for taking the picture.

Surgeries

So I decided that I wanted to compare my scars from my last surgeries to the ones that I'll be getting soon. So here are the ones from before, and the new ones will be up as soon as I can uncover them.

I tired to circle some of them so it's easier to see, it really didn't help. Sorry.

Weekly Quote 2/23 to 3/1

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, 

instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway 

and you see it through no matter what."

  

~Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird~

Surgeries

So the countdown to my surgeries continues. I'm very excited about it. At first I was a bit shocked because really, six days notice? About now I'm very glad it's that close, each day is getting worse so the least amount of time the better. 

Anyways I will keep everyone on here updated with video footage and I'm going to try and convince my doctor to twitter the surgery as she does it. So, if you haven't added my twitter alerts be sure to do so. 

Free Time With Food

So I got these in an e-mail. Their pretty amazing!

I personally like the watermelon alien.  

Surgeries

So, as many of you know I was scheduled to have the interlocks on my legs taken out in August.  Well over the past few days I've been having some leg pains where my scars are. I really thought nothing of it except that it was cold. Well yesterday and today got a lot worse. 

I called the hospital to see what I could do. One of my care coordinators Angela said my doctor's next clinic wasn't until March 2nd. I figured I'll tough it out. About two minutes later I get a call back from Angela, she says that she talked to my doctor and I need to come in immediately and my doctor will meet me at the hospital.

By now I'm kind of a little nervous this is all very sudden. I head to the hospital and say that I need to check in. The lady at the desk says you have no paperwork it just says go to radiology for x-rays. So I walk in there and they say oh Kira come right in. 

My doctor meets me in a room after the x-rays and explains that I have some problems with my legs. I am apparently going in for emergency surgery in 6 days. 

Mindwalk

Today in English we watched the movie Mindwalk. The movie was released in 1990. It is absolutely amazing, and very deep. Most of the class when it ended was really speechless. I think that it really has the ability to make you question a lot of things and look at the world in a whole new light. 

I would highly recommend seeing it!

Weekly Quote 2/16 to 2/22

"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms, 

until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."

~ Abraham Lincoln~

So very true.

Baby Sings Hey Jude

So today I was watching some videos on Youtube. Anyone familiar with the site knows that when the video ends it shows others you may like. That, is how I came across this. It is possibly the cutest thing ever!

Jerusalem Syndrome

Austin believes that this diagnoses me as a child when I went to visit the visitors center. So if you know what I'm talking about tell me if it seems accurate. 

The Jerusalem Syndrome is a name given to a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions, or other psychosis like experiences that are triggered by, or lead to, a visit to the city of Jerusalem. It is not endemic to one single religion 

The best known, although not the most prevalent, manifestation of the Jerusalem syndrome is the phenomenon whereby a person who seems previously balanced and devoid of any signs of psychopathology becomes psychotic after arriving in Jerusalem. The psychosis is characterized by an intense religious theme and typically resolves to full recovery after a few weeks or after being removed from the area.

The religious focus of the Jerusalem syndrome distinguishes it from other phenomena, such as the Stendhal syndrome, which is reported in Florence, Itally, or the Paris syndrome, which has been reported predominantly in Japanese individuals.

Dr. Yair Bar El claimed that there is a specific syndrome which emerges in tourists who have no previous psychiatric history. However, this has been disputed especially by Dr. Moshe Kalian and Prof. Eliezer Witztum. They stressed that nearly all of the tourists who demonstrated the described behaviors were already mentally ill prior to their arrival in Jerusalem. Further, of the small proportion alleged to have exhibited spontaneous psychosis after arrival in Jerusalem, there was no evidence presented that they had previously been well. 

History:

     The syndrome was first clinically described in the 1930's by Jerusalem psychiatrist Heinz Herman and pertains to behaviors exhibited by some visitors to Jerusalem. Whether or not these behaviors specifically arise from visiting Jerusalem is debated, as similar behaviors have been noted at other places of religious and historical importance such as Mecca and Rome. It is known that cases of the syndrome had already been observed during the middle ages, since it was described in the itinerary of Felix Fabri and the biography of Margery Kempe. Other cases were described in the vast literature of visitors to Jerusalem during the 19th century.

One cause often mentioned in relation to the syndrome occurred in 1969, when an Australian tourist, Michael Rohan overwhelmed with a feeling of divine mission set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque. His act was followed by citywide rioting. These events helped form the premise of a movie called The Jerusalem Syndrome.

Bar-El suggested that at the approach of the year 2000, large numbers of otherwise normal visitors might be affected by a combination of their presence in Jerusalem and the religious significance of the millennium, causing a massive increase in in the numbers of Jerusalem syndrome admissions to the hospital. Despite a slight increase in tourists hospitalisations with the rise in total tourism to Jerusalem during the year 2000, the feared epidemic of Jerusalem syndrome never materialized. 

Types:

      The classic Jerusalem syndrome, where a visit to Jerusalem seems to trigger an intense religious psychosis that resolves quickly or on departure, has been a subject of debate in the medical literature. Most of the discussion has centered on wheather this definition of the Jerusalem syndrome is a distinct form of psychosis or simply a re-expression of a previously existing psychotic illness that was not picked up by the medical authorities in Israel. 

In response to this, Bar-El classified the syndrome into three major types of reflect the different types of interactions between a visit to Jerusalem and unusual or psychosis-related thought processes. However Kalian and Witztum have objected, saying that Bar-El presented no evidence to justify the detailed typology and prognosis presented and that the types in fact seem to be unrelated rather than different aspects of a syndrome.

Type I: Jerusalem syndrome imposed on a pervious psychotic illness.

      This refers to individuals already diagnosed as having a psychotic illness before their visit to Jerusalem. They have typically gone to the city because of the influence of religious ideas, often with a goal or mission in mind that they believe needs to be completed on arrival or during their stay. For example, an affected person may believe himself to be an important historical religious figure or may be influenced by important religious ideas or concepts (such as causing the coming of the Messiah or the second coming of Christ).

Type II: Jerusalem syndrome superimposed on and complicated by idiosyncratic ideas.

       This does not necessarily take the form of mental illness and may simply be a culturally anomalous obsession with the significance of Jerusalem, either as an individual, or as part of a small religious group with idiosyncratic spiritual beliefs.  

Type III: Jerusalem syndrome as a discrete form, uncompounded by previous mental illness.

      This describes the best-known type, whereby a previously mentally balanced person becomes psychotic after arriving in Jerusalem. This psychosis is characterized by an intense religious character and typically resolves to full recovery after a few weeks or after being removed from the locality. It shares some features with the diagnostic category of a "brief psychotic episode", although a distinct patten of behaviors has been noted:

    1. Anxiety, agitation, nervousness and tension, plus other unspecified reaction.

    2. Declaration of the desire to split away from the group or the family and to tour Jerusalem alone. Tourist guides aware of the Jerusalem syndrome and of the significance of such declarations may at this point refer the tourist to an institution for psychiatric evaluation in an attempt to preempt the subsequent stages of the syndrome. If unattended, these stages are usually unavoidable. 

    3. A need to clean and pure: obsession with taking baths and showers; compulsive fingernail and toenail cutting.

    4. Preparation, often with the aid of hotel bed-linen, of a long, ankle-length toga-like gown, which is always white.

    5. The need to shout psalms or verses from the Bible, or to sing religious hymns or spirituals loudly. Manifestations of this type serve as a warning to hotel personnel and tourist guides, who should then attempt to have the tourist taken for professional treatment. Failing this, the two last stages will develop.

    6. A procession of march to one of Jerusalem's holy places.

  

    7. Delivery of a sermon in a holy place. The sermon is usually very confusing and based on a plea to humankind to adopt a more wholesome, moral, simple way of life.

Bar-El reported 42 such cases over a period of 13 years, but in no case were they able to actually confirm that the condition was temporary.

Prevalence: 

      During a period of 13 year (1980-1993) for which admissions to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre in Jerusalem were analyzed, it was reported that 1,200 tourists with severe, Jerusalem-themed mental problems were referred to this clinic. Of these, 470 were admitted to the hospital. On average, 100 such tourists have been seen annually, 40 of them requiring admission to the hospital. About two million tourists visit Jerusalem each year. Kalian and Wtiztum note that as a portion of the total numbers of tourists visiting the city, this is not significantly different from any other city.

  

So Austin claims that I have type III, I think it sounds reasonable. Also all the information came from Wikipedia.

    

Reasons why I like Salt Lake Community College

So my school just keeps getting better and better. I have no clue what goes on here or where these ideas come from I walked in and there is a guy doing magic in the lobby. I continue walking and there are people with balloons and a kid playing a mini drum. Sorry the picture is sort of blurry I was walking away as I took it.

Believers Never Die Part Deux

I forgot to mention that Friends and Enemies is hosting the Believers Never Die Part Deux Tour!!!! It is going to be amazing. Not only do I get to go with Dita and Camrin, two of my best friends but let me give you a rundown of the bands.

Mainly Fall Out Boy, my second favorite band (Next to P!ATD.)

Corba Starship, Hey Monday, All Time Low and Metro Station.

Excited yet? Well you should be!

Comic Corner- The Jokes On You

So I came across this panel comic today. Personally I don't think it's half as good as SMBC but that's just me.

*Side Note: I just noticed that as the saying of the day on the page it said "Everything but

Urine-O's, Amazing Kingdom reference.*

Anyways, the panel is called The Jokes On You. You can only find them on The Funny Pages, enough talk here it is.

Ok I lied sorry you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the link below to see it.

Comic Worth Seeing (I Promise)

Rules of the Modern World

1. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
2. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
4. He who hesitates is probably right.
5. Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
6. No one is listening until you make a mistake.
7. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
8. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to press on it.
9. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
10. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
11. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to If at first you don't
succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. rise above your principles.
12. Two wrongs are only the beginning.
13. Work is accomplished by those employees who are still striving to reach their
level of incompetence.
14. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (The corollary is:
15. You never learn to pray until your kids learn to drive!)
16. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
17. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
18. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. (Project Management at its best).

Weekly Quote 2/9 to 2/15

"If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

~William Congreve~

So I know this one is a bit abstract, but I like it. It gives you the ability to take from it what you want. Happy Valentines Day this week everyone!

Best Man Speech

This video is really funny, you need to watch it all the way through though. Sorry I tried to get the video on here but they don't let you make an linkable video to it.

That being said the best I could do was give you the link. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Best Man Speech

Reasons why I like Salt Lake Community College

In between my classes at school on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a 3 hour break which is great to get most of my work done. I was sitting at a table working today and I heard this loud gong noise.

I got up to go see what it was and some people were dressed up as a dragon, like the ones you see on Chinese New Year that it takes like three people to work. Following them was a guy dressed as a tiger and then finally a girl with a gong. I really have no clue what it was for because Chinese New Year was on the 26th of last month.

It was strange but I have come to learn that SLCC is anything but ordinary.

The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart 2/2/09

I don't usually watch The Daily Show that often but it was on yesterday when I was at school. I think yesterdays episodes was one of the best I've seen thus far. I feel Jon Stewart is very talented. He has the ability to bring to light the important issues at the time, but at the same time not make them seem so serious. Since yesterday I keep thinking back to what he said relating to where America as a country stands and several other points he brought up. Having the issues seem a bit lighter helped me to think about them more and now that it's the day after I have really been considering them. It's really important that you watch the whole show for the 2nd, if not watch all the small clips.

The Daily Show

Full Episode for 2/2/09

Enjoy!

Comic Corner-Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

So I totally read these and decided that they needed to be shared.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Weekly Quote 2/2 to 2/8

I decided it's about time we had a quote from a woman so here it is.


"Changes are not only possible and predictable,
but to deny them is to be an accomplice
to one's own unnecessary vegetation."

~Gail Sheehy~