No not really altho I did think about it but didn't want to shock you all too much.
It's a thought tho' what about a naked COW calendar for 2009?
I'm sure we could be as discreet as the CWA ladies. LOL
Now to the actual X's.
Here are some XRAYS - taken of my eldest DS in 1981 when he ran out from in front of the school bus and whamo - fractured femur - that's the thigh bone. The first two were taken a week after the accident - as you can see NO bone union so I fought to have him transferred out from Narrabri, where we were living then, to Tamworth which was the closest Base hospital with orthopaedic specialists. The last xray was four months later after spending all that time in traction - lots of nice new bone growth - a wee bit of misalignment but he ended up with lest than 1/8th of an inch of shortening which is pretty good for a growing long bone.
Then more bones - I thought of the xiphoid process - this is the little bit of cartilege at the base of the sternum (breast bone) that ossifies as we get older and is also called the xiphisternum - another X word - pronounced as a Z tho. We learn about it as we learn our CPR and measure up from it to know where to do our compressions for cardiac massage. It is also the bit that breaks off sometimes when we do it - YUK - I have done that and it felt nasty! Poor bloke died anyway.
Anyhow when looking for an illustration as I had no xiphoid processes to photograph, I found that there is a band called Xiphoid Process - weird eh? and hence the inclusion of thier CD cover as part of my mosaic. This is what it says about them ....formed in 1994 from the ashes of an experimental / Noise Duo, Xiphoid Process evolved to create intriguing soundscapes that transcend the borders of gothic, industrial, experimental, and synth music. Led by the solitary Michael Potts, and featuring an ever-diminishing, revolving array of guests, XP has garnered a cult following among dark music's intelligentsia
So there - you learn something everyday eh?
And lastly on a brighter note here is Zara's crocodile xylophone!
Posting early as we are off to the van for the w/e.
8 comments:
Oh my goodness you know so many more X words than I thought existed! :-)
good to see they put in a few pins when they set the break!!!!!!!!
Well done Stephanie I threw all my old XRays out when we moved and haven;t had an xlyphone since my kids were little
Yowee on the Xrays. Good ones Stephanie and very informative on the medical side of things.
Ooooh clever! - I totally forgot about the xiphoid process - and I could have taken a photo of the one on the skeleton at work too!
Andrea
(heading off to go a google search for that band - sounds interesting ;-)
Some very intelligent choices there, Stephanie - LOL. The same as some of mine.
Oooo ouch ouch ouch, that broken bone looks very nasty! Is the safety pin from a bandage? My Paul was most amused with a chest x-ray he had done recently - clear as a bell you can see his nipple ring!
You always learn so much with Scatterdays!
Good research and choices.
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