I hope you liked Friday's 5pm story on the breast cancer boutique!! Wasn't Paula awesome? And Pam, too, for sharing their stories with me (and you). I'm hoping that on this new shift I can do more stories like this. Don't get me wrong, covering the latest/greatest study is wonderfully interesting to me, especially as I've figured out many of the pitfalls that come with covering health stories accurately. It's actually hard to get it right. I joke that if you think it's "easy" to cover health, you're probably doing something horribly wrong.

But, most people who don't normally cover health stories (like studies, etc.) don't know what to look for. It's not their fault. It just takes time. I'll stop before I get into the difference between Phase I, II and III clinical trials, the difference between an "association" versus "cause-and-effect", "risk" versus "rate" and all the other little goodies that I geek-out over that no one else probably cares about, lol!!

You most likely swung by here to learn more about the Transistions boutique at Providence St. Vincent. Here is the website:

http://www.providence.org/oregon/health_resource_centers/breast_cancer_center/transitions.htm

Look what photographer Rod S. dropped off in my mailbox.

It's a photo of a photo of all of us on the ship the USS Vandegrift with the Command Senior Cheif Jeff Baldie from Hillsboro: http://www.vandegrift.navy.mil/

And (for the umpteenth time).. THANKS for your patience on the reply emails.. yet again it's 15 minutes after I'm supposed to be here and I'm still behind! YIKES.

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