Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Carp and CAM

Victor got home from work this evening and said "Are you feeling all right? You didn't blog today."

Actually I feel kinda carpy. (A fish sitting where I am would not be well, either. Heh.) I'm trying not to be too whiny, thinking about my friend's sister's friend, the kid with stage 4 cancer...I'm just sort of sluggish, unmotivated, and dim-witted today.

I heard one news story today that piqued my interest (well, two, but the other was about snakeheads and I suspect other people may be sick of my weird critter obsessions): the results are in on complementary and alternative medicine in the U.S. I'm really interested in alternative therapies. Shortly after NIH established the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) I attended a lecture by one of the scientists there. At the time I was firmly in the "better living through chemistry" camp, working in the pharmaceutical world, and hadn't really considered that when you come down to it, it's all chemical reactions.

This is fascinating stuff, and I think it is great that alternative therapies are being studied alongside what's become conventional medicine (of course, many of the alternatives are far older than the conventions). Personally, I want the least-invasive effective therapy available for whatever ails me, and I don't care who discovered it.

I'm not sure what they best therapy for carpy feeling is, but I'll work on that research myself this weekend.