This is classic…just love it. Click the pic, and it’ll take you to YouTube to view the video. I wanted to control the frame, hence the reason I didn’t embed the player into the post!
From CNN:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children.
Kellie Lim, who became a triple amputee at age 8 because of bacterial meningitis, is to graduate from UCLA’s medical school on Friday, and she plans to focus on childhood allergies and infectious disease.
The Michigan native, 26, does not use a prosthetic arm and manages to perform most medical procedures — including giving injections and taking blood — with one arm. She walks on prosthetic legs.
“Just having that experience of being someone so sick and how devastating that can be — not just for me but for my family, too — gives me a perspective that other people don’t necessarily have,” Lim said.
Raised by a blind mother in suburban Detroit, Lim went through years of wheelchairs and painful therapy after toxic shock from the meningitis claimed her limbs and three fingertips on her remaining hand.
Lim recently saw her childhood medical file, and learned that doctors had given her a 15 percent chance of survival. Just five months after the amputations, Lim returned to a normal school. Born right-handed, she learned to write and work with her left.
“I hate failing,” she said. “It’s one of those things that’s so ingrained in me.”
Lim’s teachers and fellow students said she exudes a calm that makes them and her patients forget her physical circumstances.
“She has an aura of competence about her that you don’t worry,” said Dr. Elijah Wasson, one of Lim’s supervisors. “At first you notice her hand is not there. But after about five minutes, she is so comfortable and so competent that you take her at face value.”
Lim will begin a residency program at the UCLA Medical Center.
This is the kind of person I really admire, and want to emulate. I hope to have the drive and perseverance as this woman.
Way to go Kellie!!!
From: CNN
This just makes me sick to my stomach. I’d be against the death penalty regardless of this situation, but it certainly confirms that my feelings are 100% correct.
Despite his comments:
But Newton, who had insisted on the death penalty as punishment and made no attempt to appeal, chatted and laughed with prison staff throughout the delay. It took so long that the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.
So, basically because he decided to not appeal the state allowed this man to commit suicide. How on earth as a civil society can we let this happen? We need to stop state sponsored killing.
Regarding Detroit Pistons Take 2-0 Lead in NBA Eastern Conference Finals .
I really haven’t been following the Pistons as well as I do most years, but I have been keeping track of the games they’ve won. They gave me a bit of a scare in that Bulls series with the Bulls winning two. But, that says a lot about a team when two losses in a best of seven is a scare. I hope they can take care of the Cavs in short order.
I haven’t blogged personally in a long time, and I’m so glad that I’m finally getting the opportunity to. Now I can write about all kinds of topics besides the former Governor of Massachusetts. 
I’ll be talking about a variety of subjects from life in general to architecture. Anyway, feel free to comment on my musings.