May is underway

Ellen came out to visit this weekend, and it was wonderful to see her. The weather certainly cooperated; thunderstorms were predicted for most of the weekend but consistently held off, which meant we got to enjoy warm temperatures and delightful zephyrs. The weekend ended much too quickly, as it always does when Ellen is here, but it's less than a month until our next visit and we will both be plenty busy until then.

My paramedic instructor mentioned as we were leaving on Thursday that we will spend part of tomorrow filling out graduation paperwork. It was startling to hear the "G" word at first, but I realized that my surprise stemmed from how early it popped up, relatively speaking. The didactic component may be winding down, but there is a lot of program left. During our sixty one day clinical break, on average six out of every twenty four hours will be spent at a clinical.

On the health front, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare issued a recall Saturday for specified lots of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl. Evidently there was a manufacturing mistake that led to the inclusion of excessive levels of the active ingredients. For more information, visit the recall's official recall website.

In other news, the Yankees' starting rotation is 12-1 this year, with the exception of Javier Vazquez, who is 1-3 on the season. Can't they just start Sabathia twice and send Vazquez back to Atlanta?