This is Messed Up!!!!!!

Girl's prosthetic legs stolen for 2nd time

By Aarthi Sivaraman, Reuters

For the second time in three months, a 16-year-old California girl who lost a leg in an accident has had her artificial limbs stolen.

Melissa Huff, an Arcadia High School student who uses a $16,000 (9,000 pounds) prosthetic limb to play softball for the school team and another one, valued at $12,000, for everyday use, said both were taken from her bedroom on Tuesday.

"I was picking up my little brother from school when my mom called me and asked where I left the two prosthetic legs," Huff, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, told Reuters in an interview.

"I knew right then that it had happened again."

Lisa Huff, her mother, said she came home around midday on Tuesday and found the room shared by Melissa and her older sister a mess. Only the prosthetic limbs were missing.

Read the full story here on Yahoo!

Article and pictures featuring Melissa Huff on Ossur's Web site (a global orthapaedics company best known for its leadership in prosthetics).

So Much for Valentine's Day

Well, it's been about a week since I first got sick, and of course I wasn't feeling any better yesterday.  I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling so congested - as if an elephant was sitting on my chest.  And to make matters worse, I was coughing up a storm.  Oy.

 

Thankfully, my husband and I didn't have any grandiose plans of heading out to a fancy restaurant on Valentine's Evening where I could cough up a storm around other romantic diners.  Instead, we planned on staying at home and making homemade gourmet heart-shaped pizzas.  My husband took pictures of the pizza's.  I'll try to post one when they're available.

 

One pizza had garlic and herb dough (Trader Joe's), used traditional red pizza sauce (Trader Joe's), pepperoni, sautéed sliced mushrooms, baby mozzarella balls (Trader Joe's), and dried herbs on top.  Very tasty.

 

The other pizza had a traditional dough (Trader Joe's), used fig preserves (Trader Joe's) instead of a red sauce, crumbled cooked spicy Italian sausage, caramelized red onions, and baby mozzarella balls (Trader Joe's).  SOOOOOOO good!!!!!

 

We enjoyed a nice bottle of Cline Syrah with the pizza.

 

For dessert I made a velvety chocolate fondue, and served up peanut butter cookies, strawberries, pretzels, and pound cake to dip into it.  Quite tasty.

 

 

Whose Crazy Idea Was This????

Reuters - Wed Feb 8, 8:07 AM ET

Japanese maid costumed waitress Hinaka (C) serves coffee to a customer at a maid cafe in Tokyo's electronic district Akihabara, January 20, 2006. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

I HATE...

...being sick!!!!!!


I woke up with the WORST sore throat this morning. And I don't think I'm getting any better ("achoooo"), because now I'm sore and achey. Icky.

Good thing I don't have any plans tonight, because I'm just going to go home and watch today's episode of General Hospital on TiVo while holding the couch down. Then I'll jump into bed to fall asleep while watching The Phantom of the Opera. That might be soothing????

Oy.

Is it time to go home yet?