The rain continues to fall in Virginia.  I’m not much for nature, and I’m certainly not a big fan of mud bogs like my backyard resembles at the moment.  Just the same, send ark-building supplies, we’re in for 4-6 more days of this nonsense.

Pretty quiet otherwise- we’re in the lull between big doctor’s appointments.  When they keep looking but can’t find anything that caused this, sooner or later, you run out of things to check.  The inability to have a spot on an MRI, or a chromosome out of step to point to and say “aha!  That’s the bastard there!” is frustrating to me.  As I’ve mentioned before, Infantile Spasms is either the disease or a symptom of something larger.  For the moment, Infantile Spasms being Marissa’s disease is bothering me.  I think this may be a “grass is greener” kind of situation, though.  Sometimes no cause is the best case, especially with IS.

Be right back, time for the 9PM cocktail of Vigabatrin and Keppra.

Two By Two

Two of the recent Fairfax brood have checked in:

Our first picture is provided courtesy Chi Phi fraternity from Schreiner University in the Texas hill country.  Did all the brothers know what the bunny’s deal was?

Picture 2 comes from what I’ll call the Twilight Bunny in Batavia, IL.  Bunny ultimate showdown!

LiLa, the custodian of the Twilight bunny, asks:

“If you have time for it, I have a question for you.  Please tell me how to destroy a zombie.  Please don’t ask me why I need to know.  I just do.  So, would blasting it’s head off do it, or does it need to be chopped up and burned as I’m told by the boys at my son’s school?”

Frankly, I think the boys have zombies confused with the higher order of undead, the Vampire.  Classic Vampire dispatching, pre-Buffy entailed a stake to the heart, followed by dousing in flame.  Of course, the flame would be more efficient if the Vampire was pre-hacked.

If there’s no confusion and if you consider various pedigrees, the zombie question may be a little more curious.  If you’re talking classic Dawn of the Dead or World War Z zombies, then a simple decapitation would stop the zombie.  However, given the viral nature of the Zombie transformation, a cleansing by fire seems prudent to eliminate any pathogens.  If the zombie is more mythic in nature, perhaps a Voudoun Zombie, than I don’t think the cleansing by fire is required.  A simple 3rd level “dispel magic”, perhaps a Cleric of sufficient level should be able to Turn said Voudoun zombie.  Failing an equally potent mythic solution, ultimately, a whack to the noggin with a sufficiently sharp blade or amazingly heavy blunt instrument should do the job nicely.

Mixed metaphors galore!

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Anyhow, two more of the Fairfax brood from days past have checked in.  Once upon a time, a Fairfax visited Bungie studios and dabbled with Trixie on the weekly xBox live community video one snowy weekend in December.  I think that Fairfax decided Washington state was a nice place to hang, but he’s heard the call of Marissa and is returning to her.  A second Fairfax (Fairfax #3, in fact) was circulating amongst the IS community and is also coming back.  These two will be spruced up a bit and placed back into circulation.  Check your mailboxes if you’ve asked for a bunny in the past, you may be next on Fairfax’s visiting list!

As requested, a blast from the past.  Marissa pre-seizure.  Just days before!  I like the baby tongue.  In this picture, she’s looking at me and copying my sticking out my tongue at her.  She really hasn’t done that since the seizures started.