Over the years, I've been fortunate in my doctors. They've always been competent, and they've mostly been personable. As I've grown older and more assertive, I've learned how to interact with doctors to get the kinds of explanations and follow-up care I need.
One phrase doctors use, however, really irritates me, and I... Read more
The word "lymphedema" on the evening news caught my attention the other day. I stopped making supper to pay closer attention. In about a minute and a half the news anchor and the doctor covered two new studies that affect breast cancer patients. The main idea of the piece is that it's important to question generally... Read more
"Oh, I just died from embarrassment," we tell our friends with a laugh when relating a story about an awkward social moment.
We don't mean it literally, but sometimes it is all too true. When embarrassment keeps us from seeing the doctor about an issue of sexual or breast health, we court death.
There has been... Read more
A few weeks ago I found myself with twenty of my colleagues in a classroom doing chest compressions on plastic dummies. Our school thinks we should know CPR, so there I was pressing away on a dummy's chest when my own chest and side muscles on the right started to cramp.
I was wearing the compression sleeve that I always... Read more
Yesterday I got the news that an on-line friend died of inflammatory breast cancer six years after her diagnosis. Earlier this month a friend I’ve known thirty-six years died suddenly from heart problems related to her cancer treatments. What did my friends have in common? A positive attitude.
A woman I know from... Read more
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