January 7, 2006

• One for the Boys

  Cars seem to completely absorb the young men I know (and love).  I ran across this quote last night as I was looking for a home treatment for Carson who had lost the hearing in his left ear.  Today we flushed the ear with hydrogen peroxide and we’re hoping for gradual improvement.  I think flying with his friend Luke while he had a cold, then snowboarding at 8,000 ft. two days later took its toll.  So for all you car fans:

  I remember my first lesson in human biology in grade school… “Think of your body as a car.  Your heart is the engine, your backbone is the axel and the suspension, your muscles are the transmission, and your arms and legs are the wheels.”

  “But what about the brain?” I asked.

  “Ah, that’s where the analogy breaks down,” she said.  “A car lacks one vital component to make it go – the driver.  The body, however, has its driver built in.  We call it the brain and the nervous system.”

  I’ve loved automobiles and the secrets of the human body ever since.

  ~Isadore Rosenfeld MD  in Symptoms

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