Mountains Out of Mole Hills
I am going to discuss a matter that is usually shared with your spouse, mother, father, or close friend. But I am willing to do this because it is the perfect example of making a
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Hope for the Hopeless
Recently a longtime acquaintance saw me and was so surprise that I had lost weight that she couldn’t seem to be happy for me. Her surprise seemed to over shadow her ability to believe that
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Two Sides to Fear
A friend of mine is battling stage IV metastatic breast cancer that has metastasized to her bones. The disease was diagnosed almost ten years ago but she didn’t start to fight her disease until
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Practice Safe Sex? Why Not S.A.F.E. Medical Care?
Have you heard about a friend, a family member, or a work mate whose medical care was so poorly administered that its consequences were life threatening or lethal? I think we all have.
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Who is at the Helm of This Ship?
I had been receiving antibiotic infusions for the last ten days and had not seen a doctor since that first late afternoon when I presented to their office with cellulitis of the breast. I was
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Are We Caring For The Patient Or The Health Care System?
I was visited by an old nemesis this week. One I knew well but had not battled with in five years. Cellulitis of the breast due to a lumpectomy in 2003 came roaring into my
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“But I Don’t Want To!”
It’s a good thing I am retired because I wouldn’t be able to hold a fulltime job with all the doctor’s appointments I have. I accept and expect that as I age (not well, by
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A Caregiver’s Worth
If you are in a care-giving role, you may be feeling like you are a worn out floor mop used once too often and lost most of its ability to mop up the dirt and
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Ignore or Explore?
Why was I more freaked out over having a biopsy of a blemish on my scalp than I was over my lumpectomy, or my coronary artery bypass? It had been a few years since I
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Use It or Lose It
I often quip that Thad and I need to remain a team because it takes two of us to make one fully functioning brain. We will enter a room and can’t remember why we went
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