Tape city. The phlebotomist at the clinic this morning apparently owns stock in the company that produces the tape used to secure the gauze to the puncture so you don't bleed out after the do the draw. Not only did she use a half a roll of the tape, but she instructed me not to remove said tape for fifteen minutes. I would have been happy to comply, except that the circulation to my fingers was cut off and they were turning a garish shade of blue-gray. I am more in to the jewel tones, so that color was not a good match for me, and I unwound the tape as I was driving down IH-35. I can neither confirm nor deny as to whether or not the emergency room doctor had to amputate, but suffice it to say, I still have all ten digits. NUMERO DOS: yep, we got another egg this afternoon. Same nest, same small white egg, so I suspect it is the same girl that is doing the laying. Maybe the others will begin to mimic her in short order.Haruspex -- Noun. a diviner in ancient Rome basing predictions on inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals. "The coroner-cum-haruspex will divine the mystery of her death, read the entrails of the bird that flew too far and too fast." Violet LeVoit, Baltimore City Paper, August 17, 2011.=
Did You Know? Haruspex was formed in Latin by the combination of haru- (which is akin to chorde, the Greek word for "gut") and -spex (from the verb specere, meaning "to look"). Appropriately, haruspex can be roughly defined as "one who looks at guts." The ancient Romans had a number of ways of determining whether the gods approved of a particular course of action. Such divination was called augury, and a haruspex was a type of augur, an official diviner of ancient Rome. (Other augurs divined the will of the gods through slightly less gruesome means, such as observing the behavior of birds or tracking celestial phenomena.) Haruspex, like augur, has developed a general sense of "one who prophesies," but this use is somewhat rare.
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