The Provincial Lab

OK... so yesterday I went to the provincial lab for a tour with the rest of my Microbiology class.



I came back determined to preach to everyone I know that they have to stop biting their nails. If people only new the things their hands touch in a day, and how they can hide around their finger nails and live for such a long time, they would stop. So people.... save your own life by washing your hands regularly, and stop biting your nails!!!



We also learned that Saskatchewan is the chlamydia capital of Canada....lovely. The incidence of it being tested for, spikes every 10 days after a major event in Regina. Agribition is in town next week!!! Yeps, its not just Buffalo Days, or Roughrider games that will encourage the spread of STI's(no longer STD's because perhaps "infection" carries less stigma than "disease"). One of the people at the lab spoke of someone attending this upcoming agribitition, calling a health clinic that offered sexual health services, asking how clean the local prostitutes were. Talk about thinking ahead. I'm praying he's not married, and that for some reason he has to stay home from this event.

Leads to another opportunity presenting itself in my Microbiology class.... I am part of a group that gets to set up an information booth about HPV. There has been so much publicity about the new vaccine that is going to be offered to 9-12 year old girls, in our province, to prevent this disease....errrr..... I mean infection. This vaccine will provide immunity to 4 strains of this virus, there is 100 different strains. Now get this stat...8 out of 10 Canadians will have a HPV infection at some time in their lives, and never know. In most cases, the body eventually fights it off and you never experience the symptoms. Now there are several strains that lead to genital warts, warts on hands and/or feet, and several that can lead to cells changing and eventually becoming cancerous. Depending on which you have, you could have no problems whatsoever, "special" parts of your body that look like a cauliflower, or have the experience dealing with surgery, infertility, radiation and chemotherapy. And guess what.......

A CONDOM WON'T PROTECT YOU FROM THIS ONE.

Without getting overly graphic, not just the parts separated by a condom are in contact and affected when you're getting it on.

So our province will be offering this vaccine to girls(even though boys can get this too), with the hopes of them receiving this before their first sexual experience. That's thought to be around grade 5 or 6. Sad. Did I mention that they have no studies showing the long term affects of this vaccine?

I'm honestly not pro or anti HPV vaccine. The vaccine is just the little "pill(needle)" to help prevent cancer and the spread of infection. I just think that there's a basic truth that's missing through out all of our society.

There is a God, he made us, he has a good plan for our lives, and there are real consequences for not having a relationship with God and seeking to know this plan. It actually does make sense, but most people struggle with accepting there is a right and a wrong. Who really ever wants to hear that they're wrong, or need to make a tough decision or change in their lives?

So off I went on a little rant....so about HPV...

The only sure way of absolutely never ever getting HPV....... never have sex.

The one way of ensuring that you are extremely unlikely to get it..... only sleep with the person you're married to. Beyond that, make sure that you are marrying the person that is the gift God has set aside for you.

They're worth the wait, and so are you.

This being said, I'm one of those people that has learned most of her lessons the hard way. God has been so loving, faithful, merciful and gracious, to give me another opportunity to learn and to do things the right way. The right way makes way more sense and...... well it's just way better and I'll leave it at that......hehehe.......

And so I'll leave you with 2 quotes from the book of Romans....

Romans 8:6 - The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 12:1 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Chris was right........I needed a blog. ;)

My First Post

Oki.... this is my first post. That's it that's all. Just keeping this simple at first. Oh yeah.... I love Jesus. Oki, that it....... for real.