The weather in New York continues to pique my ire. I don't know if that's actually a cogent expression, but it sounds good to me this morning. And I don't even know if "cogent" is the correct word to use in this context, but I'm bending the ol' language rules a wee bit. It's cold here for Crissake, and we haven't seen the sun in about two weeks, grrrrrrr!
But to focus on more positive news today, I saw this in The Irish Independent this morn'. The theme is Giving Back When You've Taken So Much.
SERIAL KILLER ATONES BY GIVING KIDNEY
A SERIAL killer nurse who murdered 29 patients has saved another man's life by giving him one of his kidneys.
Charles Cullen donated the organ to an ex-girlfriend's brother, Ernie Peckham, of Long Island.
Mr Peckham, a 37-year-old metalworker, had been on the brink of renal failure and was having dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week, when his mother wrote to Cullen last year begging for help.
The killer was moved by her plea and thought donating a kidney could be a way of atoning for his sins. Cullen (46), who gave lethal doses of drugs to patients at Pennsylvania and New Jersey hospitals and nursing homes between 1986 and 2003, became so impassioned about the plan that he threatened to skip his sentencing hearing unless the transplant could go ahead.
The operation took place last Sunday. Cullen once lived with Mr Peckham's sister.
Rachel Williams
But to focus on more positive news today, I saw this in The Irish Independent this morn'. The theme is Giving Back When You've Taken So Much.
SERIAL KILLER ATONES BY GIVING KIDNEY
A SERIAL killer nurse who murdered 29 patients has saved another man's life by giving him one of his kidneys.
Charles Cullen donated the organ to an ex-girlfriend's brother, Ernie Peckham, of Long Island.
Mr Peckham, a 37-year-old metalworker, had been on the brink of renal failure and was having dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week, when his mother wrote to Cullen last year begging for help.
The killer was moved by her plea and thought donating a kidney could be a way of atoning for his sins. Cullen (46), who gave lethal doses of drugs to patients at Pennsylvania and New Jersey hospitals and nursing homes between 1986 and 2003, became so impassioned about the plan that he threatened to skip his sentencing hearing unless the transplant could go ahead.
The operation took place last Sunday. Cullen once lived with Mr Peckham's sister.
Rachel Williams
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ha ha
thanks for making me laugh on the heels of yet another fight
maybe i'll make the next one an arm wrestling fight
or a tickle fight
Wow, I sound like a huge dork.