www.urbandare.com

Last Saturday, I did this race called "Urban Dare". It was a mini-Amazing Race of sorts and lots of fun. We started out in the Boston Commons and after answering an initial trivia question, actually questions, we missed the first one, we were given a list of clues. We had to figure out the answers, then find out where the answers were located in Boston. It wasn't easy things either, like the Paul Revere house or swan boats...no, it was random stuff like the John Endicott statue...Who is John Endicott you may be wondering? The first Govenor of Massachusetts, doy! If they had only asked questions about Texas history, we would have won. Nonetheless, we had a great time, and decided we should do it again next year. We did a lot of running, so it was a great work out. Here are some pics from the event... Check the web site for the Urban Dare in your city.The plaque donated to the Oneida Club of Boston. (dirty knees are post-girly push-up dare)

My teammate and I at oh-so-great J.P. Licks with a random guy.

I have to give a shout-out to the Drs. Brown, my teammate's parents, and Erin who were all awesome googlers and gave us the answers!

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I finally am getting caught up on movie watching...Just watched the Bourne Supremacy.

3 Reasons why Jason Bourne is a stud:

1. Noah Vosen: [in car, on cell phone] Perhaps we can arrange a meet.
Jason Bourne: Where are you now?
Noah Vosen: I'm sitting in my office.
Jason Bourne: I doubt that.
Noah Vosen: Why would you doubt that?
Jason Bourne: If you were in your office right now we'd be having this conversation face-to-face.
[Bourne hangs up]

BOOYA Director Vosen! He's in YOUR OFFICE! and you have no idea....

2. Bourne drove a car off a roof. Off a freakin' roof and he lived!!!

3. How many gunshot wounds has he had? Like 3? 4? How many of those were treated at a hospital? Oh, like none. Though, he just may need a physical therapist for all those whiplash injuries he's had.

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On a more serious note, in case you need another reason to quit smoking, here's one: A radical neck dissection. I had an evaluation this week with a patient who had a radical neck dissection because of laryngeal cancer from many years of smoking. He was fairly young when the neck dissection occured. What's a radical neck dissection? Well, in keeping my site PG, I won't post a pic but imagine half your neck being removed (I'm not exaggerating), including your muscles, nerves, lymph nodes, and many blood vessels, and being left with an opening into your body. You can't eat now and have to be fed through a tube, you have to use an electronic device to speak, and your quality of life is probably poorer than it would be had they not done the surgery to remove the cancer. I felt sooo bad for this patient. He's fairly young with no family, lives in a nursing home, and cried during the evaluation. How can I encourage him that life is worth living when he's obviously miserable? So, so sad. so please, please stop smoking.