Mom & Me Four Archive

...I decided to submit a post to Patient-Consumer Parade, since a fair amount of what I write in these journals is to their point: "Why..." as patient-consumers "...must we be 'patient'". Considering that well over a year ago I played with the dual meanings of "patient" in these journals and, as well, about year ago wrote an initial version, over at Medicine in the Hot Seat in the essay section, of one of PCParade's clarion calls, I decided, aha, this carnival was meant for me. I'll submit some posts. First, of course, the "Medicine in the Hot Seat" essay.
    Which was accepted and published in their 5th carnival. When I finally noticed the publication last night I was taken a little aback at the blurb for my submission. You can read it by clicking on the immediately previous link and scrolling down the the "bronze medal" post. The host doesn't seem to know the difference between "angst-ridden" and 'empowered', and also, apparently, took some offense at my criticism of the particular physican who provoked the post and physicians, in general, appealing to readers to be "kind" to doctors. I couldn't help but wonder if the host was a physician.
    PCParade is sponsored by Med Market Magazine, a mysterious web presence whose main thrust seems to be the busy and confusing Instahealth. As far as PCParade is concerned, I'm not a fan of its grading structure. It's impossible to tell what individual readers are going to consider significant and, adding to the silliness of the grading aspect, the parade's hosts seem to have consistent trouble separating to-the-point submissions from from off-the-point submissions, which makes me wonder about ulterior purpose. When I decided to search for off-site information about the parade, I discovered that I'm not the only one whose noticed this. When I read through the parade a couple of weeks ago, though, I found more than a few posts interesting and informative. After an initial mini-flurry, the carnival seems to be lagging. I notice that my own submission has generated no unusual traffic over at my essays section. Commenting on the parade editions has quickly dropped to nothing.
    Nonetheless, as any (non)patient-consumer worth her salt knows, throwing one's hands helplessly in the air isn't a strategy. One must reach for the reins, feel for the slightest bit of slack, then apply pressure to the effort of controlling the horse (unless and until the horse dies, of course). Thus, regardless of what the Fates have in store for PCParade, since I frequently journalize to the defined (although not necessarily followed, at the moment) point of PCParade, as long as its out there I'm going to submit appropriate posts and hope for the best.
    I also decided to rev up Graphic Converter and devise my own logo to "advertise" my participation in the PCParade because the sidebar display offered by Blog Carnival doesn't fit with my simple, clean, word oriented presentation. If you scroll down through my links section on the right, you'll see my neat, appropriate little creation. The logo is linked to the PCP home page.

    Today is not only cloudy and humid but cool and rainy. Mom's been so funny. It's one of those perfect sleep days for her, so I've let her go to it, but she doesn't need any more sleep than she's already gotten so she's spent the day heading in for naps then returning to the living room 15 minutes later complaining that she's not tired. She's done this three times, so far. Currently, she's watching the news and talking about "trying another nap". I'm just letting her work it out. At the very least, she's getting more exercise than usual!
    So, you know...
    ...later.