ODE TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Ode to College Football
The Virginia royalist football team lost last week
I was there
They played maybe the prizewinning team in the country, USC
So I didn’t care
I expected them to lose by 40 points
Keeping it to within 20 would’ve been a moral victory
They lost by 45
This may be the poorest UVA team in history
Maybe I’m speaking too soon
I like the quarterback, who looks like a boy
I like the runningbacks, too
If Hamburgers and I suited up then we’d destroy
We’d still requirement to place on 100 pounds
And drop about 15 seconds in the 40-yard dash
And be able to governance advise a bear
But that’s neither here nor there
The Virginia Tech Hokies also lost last week
To a solid ECU team
They had less than 250 yards of total offense
Not a good performance
My brother was a Hokie, I used to love Tech
Michael Vick was spectacular to watch
An awful player and oh so cool
He brought acceptance and glory to his entire school
Then Tech joined the ACC and immediately won the word title
The incoming assemblage they crushed UVA in Charlottesville, I was there
And the fans gloat and talk river State-caliber shit
Now I despise them as much as Vick hates Pits
Tech’s quarterback, Glennon, isn’t very good
They expect the backup, Tyrod Taylor, to be the savior
News flash: he has terrible accuracy, can’t get the ball to his peers
Prediction: Tech will be on a downturn for the incoming three years
The Southeastern Conference is too strong for its possess good
The teams will vex each another and will every lose at least once
USC will vex Oklahoma in the National Championship
Unless Hamburgers and I had played the whole season, Coach Groh is such a dunce
PRMA Sponsors Bold Breast Reconstruction Calendar
For Immediate Release: Sept 24, 2007
PRMA of South Texas, a leading aesthetical and impressible surgery training in San Antonio, Texas is sponsoring a unique effort to inform and educate boob cancer patients about their options after mastectomy.
“Life is a Carnival,” a brave move to mastectomy and boob cancer recollection education, is a 14-month calendar featuring photos of women who had boob recollection after mastectomy and those who didn’t. The calendar is publicised by Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), the exclusive domestic noncommercial methodicalness for families strained by hereditary boob and ovarian cancer. “More than just a calendar, ‘Life is a Carnival’ is an intimate assemblage of actual women courageously distribution their bodies and their experiences to help others understand their choices,” said Sue Friedman, FORCE Executive Director. “Our calendar celebrates life after mastectomy. As these breast recollection photos attest, life after mastectomy— with or without reconstruction—does go on.”
Mastectomies are performed to treat various types of boob cancer. Increasingly, more women—including very teen women—with a family history of the disease are choosing healthful (or prophylactic) mastectomies to turn their lifetime venture of developing boob cancer, which crapper be as high as 85 percent. Choosing the prizewinning way to build breasts lost to mastectomy, or whether to build them at all, crapper be unclear and overwhelming. “Life is a Carnival” provides a unique way to explore options, study different medication techniques and make informed decisions when it comes to mastectomy reconstruction. “Today, women have many constructive options after mastectomy,” said PRMA’s Dr. Minas Chrysopoulo. “We’re chesty to sponsor ‘Life is a Carnival’, a tool that helps women understand what is doable so they crapper make their possess informed decisions.”
PRMA impressible surgeons Drs. saint Ledoux, Chet Nastala, Steven Pisano, and Minas Chrysopoulo specialize in every aspects of aesthetical surgery and boob cancer recollection following mastectomy, with a special emphasis on modern microsurgical boob recollection techniques using the patient’s possess tissue. Their desirable constructive technique is the DIEP flap (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator flap), which uses the patient’s lower abdominal tissue (like a tummy tuck) and spares the abdominal muscle.
The DIEP machine is the newborn “gold standard” in boob recollection surgery and is related with less postoperative discompose and a shorter hospital stay and feat than the customary TRAM flap procedure. Another major goodness of the DIEP flap machine is that it prevents the loss of abdominal hooligan strength usually related with TRAM flap reconstruction. Experience is an essential factor for this technically demanding surgery; PRMA performs over 300 DIEP flap boob reconstructions per year.
The “Life is a Carnival” calendar is acquirable from the FORCE website.
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Dr Chrysopoulo is commission certificated in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and specializes in breast recollection surgery after mastectomy for boob cancer. He and his partners action hundreds of microsurgical boob reconstructions with perforator flaps each year. PRMA Plastic Surgery, San Antonio, Texas. Toll Free: (800) 692-5565. Keep up to date with the latest boob recollection programme by following Dr Chrysopoulo’s Breast Reconstruction Blog.
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Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction With Perforator Flaps
So what are “perforator flaps”?
Pioneered in the early 1990’s, perforator flap boob recollection represents the state of the prowess in boob recollection surgery after mastectomy. The tissue distant at the time of mastectomy may be replaced with the patient’s possess warm, soft, living tissue to create a “natural” breast.
Skin, fatty tissue, and the tiny murder vessels that supply nutrients to the tissue (”perforators”) crapper be taken from the patient’s abdomen (SIEA flap and DIEP flap procedures) or butt (GAP flap procedure).
Unlike customary tissue recollection techniques (like the TRAM flap), these microsurgical perforator flap techniques carefully preserves the patient’s underlying musculature. The tissue is then transplanted to the patient’s dresser and reconnected using microsurgery.
Preserving underlying muscles lessens postoperative discomfort making the feat easier and shorter, and also enables the enduring to maintain hooligan strength long-term. This is specially important for astir women.
While microsurgical boob recollection offers many advantages to the patient, the surgeries are very Byzantine and time-consuming and specialized training is required. Our surgeons action over 300 microsurgical boob procedures per assemblage making PRMA Plastic Surgery digit of the busiest boob recollection centers in and beyond the USA.
To learn more about each of the perforator flap techniques offered at PRMA gratify utter on the following links:
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Dr Chrysopoulo is commission certificated in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and specializes in breast recollection surgery after mastectomy for boob cancer. He and his partners action hundreds of microsurgical boob reconstructions with perforator flaps each year. PRMA Plastic Surgery, San Antonio, Texas. Toll Free: (800) 692-5565. Keep up to date with the latest boob recollection programme by following Dr Chrysopoulo’s Breast Reconstruction Blog.
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