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We all had a crappy night's sleep last night--Aliza kept waking up and crying. Unsurprisingly, she went back down this morning for longer than usual, and she went down for half an hour at 3pm (after about half an hour of cranky fussing). She was wide awake for her walk, though! Usually she falls asleep at some point. p

The GP was booked up for today, damn it. (MUST remember to ring at 8:30 on the dot tomorrow!) She's back in cloth. Yesterday, I changed her diaper, didn't put her pants back on (habit--usually I just put babylegs on to keep her warm) and went to finish making the kugel. When I came back into the living room, her diaper was off and she'd peed on the floor. I said sod it and went back to cloth since the disposables weren't helping anyway. (Her cloth diapers have snaps and she can't undo them. Some of her wraps for going over prefolds are Aplix, which she can undo, but then she's got the Snappi'ed prefold underneath and she can't undo that!) Stupid disposables.

Right now she's trying to eat my laptop.

First Jeanette Winterson defended it.

Then Dr Ben Goldacre debunked it.

Now Denis MacEoin is defending it against Goldacre's attack. I love his logic: trials are meaningless because you can't test homeopathy by orthodox medical standards! One of the CiF posters pointed out that his objection was answered by Goldacre's proposed trial--he didn't demand that all patients be given the same homeopathic treatment, just that half get the "real" treatments, and half sugar pills.

I still think homeopathy is bunk, although I think conventional medicine could learn something from alternative practitioners. It works for some conditions not because of what's prescribed, but because the practitioner makes the patient feel like his symptoms are being carefully considered and his treatment prepared specially. A visit to a doctor can often make the patient feel like they're just another unit on the assembly line.

Happy Turkey Day!

(I miss it... 3rd year now)

(my mother asked me what i was doing for Thanksgiving. I actually had to tell her we don't have it here. *bangs head*)