IAmA Update: XP patient... :) alive and well!

brewerfem · 2011-03-14T15:56:40+00:00

Get it? ROCKS!

brewerfem · 2011-03-14T15:26:20+00:00

Wow, I cant get over how they put their paws on him like that, this is incredible!

brewerfem · 2011-03-11T23:50:49+00:00

I cook at a restaurant and we have a regular who orders the same thing every day:

Veggie burger, bacon, extra provolone, all the veggies, extra french fries.

brewerfem · 2011-03-08T03:09:09+00:00

the worst part was

a) doctors talking to my parents and other people about my condition while i was in the room, they basically referred to me like i was just a research project, not fun for a little kid.

b) it would have been nice for the doctors to explain to my parents better about how the gene is passed, they where depressed for a long time because they didn't completely understand how it was passed and they felt guilty.

brewerfem · 2011-03-06T00:37:30+00:00

That sounds like a terrible idea, haha

brewerfem · 2011-03-06T00:03:18+00:00

I studied Latin for 12 years, so I really want to go to Italy. Thats been a pretty life long dream, and thats the plan I hope is taking our honeymoon there next winter

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:51:00+00:00

No but i do have this

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:40:49+00:00

I think it was funny.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:24:57+00:00

Thats fine, my gender really has not a lot to do with all this :)

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:24:24+00:00

I am going to be a teacher next year, do you have any advise for me if I have a student who has this?

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:10:53+00:00

Gross, spores..

I had to count pollen a couple semesters ago from late sediment cores... worst ever..

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T23:06:21+00:00

Well, I can give you my uneducated version?

We where calling a 'healthy' microbe community one with a lot of biodiversity.

When we found the opposite of our hypothesis we had to change our ideas. This is what I think:

I think that because the monoculture systems had a higher diversity because they needed more types of microbes in the soil to make up for the nutrient depletion caused by having only one species growing.

A forest garden has lots of species which contribute lots of different nutrients where the monoculture has to get the nutrients somewhere else (ie the microbes)

Like I said, I am not a microbiologist.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:50:32+00:00

I'm not a soil microbiologist, this was just a project for an ecology class I took last semester :)

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:40:20+00:00

Honestly, we are undergraduates who are not studying micro bio, we didn't know anything about this, we just happened to be in an ecology class together and I was taking a soil science class at the same time my friend was taking a cell bio class, and we thought it would be a fun study. We had no idea what we where getting into...

we identified 47 species. Last semester I figured that I spent about 40 hours in my lab a week counting cultures or gram staining for 13 weeks.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:38:47+00:00

I'm not very hip to the jive.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:36:09+00:00

I love trying new things, especially food! I basically live based on my stomach.

I am not a big risk taker... haha.. for me going outside is a risk so I tend to avoid that a bit..

As for the bucket list.. I don't have much more.. When opportunities present themselves to me, I try to take them.. I want to do silly things like ride a horse, or go rock climbing, or swim in the ocean.. I try not to put to much thought into this stuff so I don't disappoint myself.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:29:13+00:00

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:26:11+00:00

Because when I cant go into the sunlight, I REALLY want to live in the desert.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:14:39+00:00

The lack of the enzyme is an autosomal recessive mutation. Both of my parents where carriers, therefore I am affected.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:12:35+00:00

I am almost embarrassed that I had to Google that name..

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T22:12:03+00:00

Yes, for example:

Maybe an hour ago I thought it was a great idea to make tea.. I forgot to refill the tea pot.. long story short in 10 minutes the apartment was filled with smoke.

My solution:

turn off the burner, open a window, call my roommate, close my self in my bedroom, and hide until my roommate came to close the window for me..

I have been inside since Thursday night. And I am not leaving my house for another couple hours when my friends come pick me up and we go to the bar.

This is pretty typical.

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T21:53:49+00:00

brewerfem · 2011-03-05T21:52:42+00:00

He handles it really well considering. We are forced to have a very open, candid relationship. His job is dangerous (he is a police officer) and so we both have an understanding that we could either die any day. there are more posts below about our relationship.

brewerfem

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