Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2009. I know exactly what was happening here! Mattie received his experimental immunotherapy treatment, and always within one hour of its administration, he would develop intense chills and would start shaking. The first time this happened to us, we were in NYC, where Mattie received his first dosage! The reaction to the medication was down right frightening, and we landed up having to take Mattie to the emergency room, where they gave him Demerol to counteract the symptoms. Mattie's little body went through total torture, and yet he complied and understood that this was his best option to manage the disease.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 33,164,824
- Number of people who died from the virus: 590,905
Check out this video! Brood X Cicadas are here in Washington, DC! Millions of bugs! More of them than people! The last time we saw Brood X was in 2004, and Mattie was two years old. Every 17 years, billions of Brood X cicadas tunnel up from the ground to spend their final days in the sun. This generation got its start back in 2004. The newly hatched cicada nymphs fell from the trees and burrowed into the dirt. They have been underground ever since, feeding on sap from the rootlets of grasses and trees and slowly maturing. All of that preparation has been leading up to this moment when they surface in droves—up to 1.4 million cicadas per acre—to molt into their adult form, sing their deafening love song and produce the next generation before dying just a few weeks later. Just for the cycle to repeat itself in 17 years! Science still isn't sure how cicadas tell time and pop to the surface after being underground for 17 years.
Listen to their sound! It is actually eerie. Peter describes it like the phasers used in Star Trek!
Want to learn more?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brood-x-cicadas-are-emerging-at-last1/
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