mourndy thursdy

Things have been very quiet over the last few days as people gear themselves up for the "spring break". But someone did come in with shoulder girdle pains and a high ESR. I lost no time in prescribing a high dose steroid regime for him. I've made that mistake before, as my readers will know- and no one else is ever going to go blind like that again on my watch.

COMMENT

Unseasonal snowstorms have affected much of Britain, particularly northern Scotland. We'll all have heard of the tragic death of a young person in a bus crash caused directly by the blizzards, but another story from there will be less well known. A seal in a seaside aquarium was washed out to see by a huge wave, and the owners have expressed concern because he is 20 years old and has never known life in the open ocean. Poor thing! Imagine his fear, his bewilderment. In America recently, a killer whale drowned someone in its "pool". A pool! Seals are used to ranging over hundreds of miles of territory; whales thousands. To incarcerate these magnificent creatures in goldfish bowls for our amusement is wrong, and should be stopped.