As Ivy mentioned, in recent discussions of the future of MCB, the idea arose of having topic-based editors who would round up Nashville-area and Tennessee bloggers’ posts on specific subjects. I’m pleased to have been asked to be the Health Editor, and to have accepted the invitation.

The guidelines for this role are pretty broad, so I’ll be compiling everything from your serious discussions of health policy to your jokey posts about your colorectal exam, posting as I can and as you provide material for linkage. We’ll learn together as we go. Now, I just have to figure out how to keep my own posts out of the round-up, given that health is the primary focus of my blogging both at Women’s Health News and Our Bodies Our Blog. Okay, okay, that’s the last bit of my shameless self-promotion, but you can check out those sites if you’re interested in your Health Editor’s background and previous related work.

Don’t forget to send your tips to tips@musiccitybloggers.com. You are a prolific bunch, so it’s easy to miss some of your excellent posts. In “real life,” I’m a medical librarian, so feel free to send questions about good resources for information on health issues as well, and I’ll try to include those in the posts.

-Send your good thoughts to Deb at Sugarfused, who has been in the hospital and is having surgery today for a diseased gall bladder.

-Finnspace is going to bring us another blogger baby, and had her 12-week appointment last Tuesday. Says Finn:

“Sometimes I think I might be narcoleptic. And arthritic. But then I remember, no, I’m just pregnant. I felt like I could have taken a lovely nap in my spinach dip today at Ruby Tuesdays and my hips are so stiff I’m hobbling around like a 90 year old.”

-Katie Allison Granju has a review of the book “Body Drama:”

For too many girls, the only information they have about what’s normal are the homegenous women-in-bikinis you see in music videos and advertising. But healthy, normal bodies come in all shapes and sizes. I would have loved to have had this book when I was 14 or 15 years old and fretting over the dimensions of my own bod.

-Relatedly, ‘Coma talks about getting naked.

-Sharon Cobb wants to know why the Tennessee pro-choice blogosphere isn’t more up in arms about this [PDF] abortion-related Senate Joint Resolution. If you’re interested (let me know in the comments), I might attempt a round-up of the healthcare-related bills our legislature has introduced thus far - there are some doozies.

-Hispanic Nashville is talking about this Tennessean article in which St. Thomas and Vanderbilt indicate that race and immigration status aren’t their big money concern - insurance status is: “‘I would say the more expensive patients (to VUMC) in the Hispanic community are the same as the ones in the Caucasian community,’ hospital spokesman John Howser said. ‘Those are the ones that are uninsured and critically injured.’” Aunt B is talking about this story as well.