YAI (Yet Another Introduction)

[galvo]

G'day, Dan, and .

[cariad]

If you want to be like that and get all competitive and stuff and about hair loss, mine fell out in two days, most of which was when I was attending a funeral for a work colleague. Imagine how I looked in my suit, being all somber and stuff, going down the reception line of mourning family, scrambling to come up with a nice anecdote to share with the widow and all the while, unbeknownst to me, I had thumbprint-sized polka dot chunks missing from my hair. I must have looked like an utter madman. And not one of my colleagues whispered a "Pssst. Dan--you're molting. What the hell?"

Months later it's still like that, growing perfectly except for half of my hair and half of my beard. I'd be happy to have a straightforward 1cm all over, regardless of grey racing stripes.

All right, you've won this particular battle, but stick around. I'm not done with you yet. (*sinister laugh*)

[natnnnat]

I had read your introductory post and was interested by your research proposal. Do you have a reference chapter set up yet? I'd be curious to see it. (I'm a recovering academic.)

Hmm mm yeah there's an old literature review, but I'm reworking it.  I have a huge collection of papers, and a big fat Endnote library, which I'm refining into a collection of "renal experience" literature (the experiences of people who receive renal medicine)... there's also a lot of other literature about general patient experience (not necessarily renal patients) and also lots of great stuff from internet ethnography or about discussion boards.   So really I stand at the messy end of a recent literature explosion, and haven't incorporated the really useful stuff into summaries yet.  But I have to this month, because I'm writing up something for a conference in September.  So can I get back to you?  I have been thinking about putting stuff (i.e. some kind of overview of the renal experience literature) into the "news / articles" section soon anyway... when i get something shipshape written... or (depending on how masochistic your curiosity is) I could send you an annotated bibliography