News & History
December Snowfall
We measured 19 inches of snow on the table on our patio. It was still snowing at the time and the table has holes in the top, so some of the first snowfall fell through it. This brought 3 extra days off of school for Fairfax County giving the kids […]
Woodson Rifle Team
Woodson High School has a rifle team. There are actually a few schools in Fairfax County that have teams including Woodson and Robinson. Alex, Ray’s friend, has been shooting small bore for the Robinson team for a year now. Ray decided that he wanted to try to go out for […]
Where have I seen this topic before?
Oh yea, it was in my Public Comment to the HRSA advisory committee. AAAAI: Rotavirus Vaccine May Cause Infections in SCID Kids By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: March 18, 2009 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. WASHINGTON, […]
Universal newborn SCID screening has potential to save lives, money
Universal newborn SCID screening has potential to save lives, money Existing blood tests may help unlock some of the mysteries surrounding infant immunodeficiency syndromes, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology Annual Meeting held in Washington this week. Performing inexpensive quantitative polymerase chain reaction […]
Public Comment
On 2/26/09 The Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children met at the Pooks Hill Marriott. This is the committee who decides whether or not to recommend any new newborn screening tests to HRSA. The committee has been meeting since June 2004 and so far has not recommended […]
Test for 1st Degree Black Belt
It was one week ago that Ray took his test for his 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I have to admit that for a couple of weeks prior to the test I was very concerned and ready to stop him from testing. Every belt test he’s had […]
Roberta Trow Luce
To all, Mom passed away early this morning after breaking her leg/hip on Saturday, the 27th. All her organs were slowly shutting down even before the fall. She was under hospice care for the last couple of days and all of us were there to be with her over those […]