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My baby!

Yet another short post. You all must really be wondering what on Earth I’m up to these days. I bet next week at NIH I’ll have more time for blogging. Right now I’m in survival mode. I’ve had a sinus headache for a week now, and today I’m running a low-grade fever. Neither of these are particularly big problems – but the last thing I need is to show up at NIH sick! I hope I feel better in the morning because I CAN’T stay home from work. I’ve got too much to do before I leave.

At any rate, today my “baby” went live on the Web site and is at this very moment making its way into the hands of our readers. I’ve written thousands and thousands of articles at this point in my career – and I’m not saying that this one is the best one by any stretch. But, it has some personal meaning because it’s just after returning from New Orleans that I had my PFT test that showed my lung function at 69. Needless to say, I was a bit distracted while trying to write this. Then, as we were doing the final edits, I went back to NIH and while the numbers were better, they still weren’t great.

I had the worst case of writers block while working on this story. I’ve gone over it a thousand times because I know what trouble I’ve had concentrating, and I was worried I’d make a stupid error that would ruin the whole thing. I even had a nightmare about misspelling the show organizer’s name! There are a few places my editor made some slight changes etc. – but you never get a story to print that’s 100 percent the way you turned it in.

So, anyway, after all that, I’ve got to record it as part of my personal record! Grin! The complete story, and the sidebars, are at:
http://www.expoweb.com. Click on the picture of the cover of the magazine. It's the cover story.

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Care said…
Great article Heather!

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