There _is_ no topic. Or rather, the topic can be whatever you want, and if anyone has anything to add, they can, but you can't get in trouble for drifting or completely changing the topic! I don't remember what set this off; some other triathlon thread got changed into something completely different from the title, maybe bog snorkeling or something, so I started this thread to just explain how, in a mailing list, that is usually handled, not saying that we should do that here- just saying. And I _know_ I am the drifter with the most offenses.

The patient I x-rayed who had a cloaca was a kid. It was weird, actually, there were a couple of them that week, and I went 20 years before that without having run into it.

I work at a hospital that does a lot of cutting edge surgeries on babies- like congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Diagnosed in utero, the baby has a slim chance of survival without surgery- but we get moms here all the time!!! from as far away as New Mexico, who were told by their OB that the baby was going to die, nothing to be done about it, but the parents don't give up, and look on the Internet, and find us, and come here, and we fix it!!

You know what this thread is kind of like, remember the eagle babies :-( On that forum, there was a thread called Egg Turning Frequency, which if you weren't familiar with the forum, wouldn't think was important, but it was the first place all the eagle-watchers checked in, and got to know each other, and talked about everything. It was _huge_.

That was one of the saddest things, when the dad broke the last egg. I hate to say it, but I think it's going to be one of those moments in history where everyone who saw it live remembers what they were doing at the time, where they were...And they were just two little birds who captured the hearts of millions of people all over the world.