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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Tall People Are Smarter: Study

Monday, August 28, 2006

You may be smart, but good luck trying to find a set of lungs when you need them. While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality — tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study [...]

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Heightism

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Word on the street has it that Jim’s potential donor pool has just expanded. He heard today from his pulmonologist, Dr. Kahan, that UCLA has lowered the minimum height to six feet. Previously it had been six feet three inches. I’ve visited a number of websites to look at the statistics, but I am now [...]

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Jim in the Washington Post

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Jim Gilliam is only 28 years old. In a previous incarnation, he was a venture capitalist and a chief technology officer. Now his voice is a old man’s rasp and he does not have the strength to cook his own food. He is waiting for a double lung transplant. But sick in his bedroom, Gilliam [...]

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From Wharton to Intensive Care

Thursday, August 10, 2006

I hope that Oliver Chu is Jim’s post-transplant ICU nurse. He sounds like a great guy. If I had to go back to college and take more courses, I think I would take more history, psychology, or sociology classes that would help me understand human emotion and culture. Because when it comes right down to [...]

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For the Man Who Has Everything Except…

Sunday, August 6, 2006

You can find almost anything at Amazon.com.

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LAM – Takes Your Breath Away

Friday, August 4, 2006

This is a 26 minute film about two women and their struggle with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Watching the film made me feel uncomfortable because it hit a little too close to home. To read a blog is one thing, but to hear and see these women is something all together different. From LAM AUS Lymphangioleiomyomatosis is pronounced [...]

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