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Patient Blogger, wife, advocate, and caregiver

Heart Disease and Osteoporosis Have Common Link!

February is National Heart Awareness Month, so we'd like to tell you about the connection between heart disease and bone loss.   If you have heart disease you've probably had many chest x-rays to monitor your heart, and sometimes during these tests compression fractures of the spine are found.   New studies show that there is a... Read moreChevron
posted 02/14/2012, comments (0)|
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Author, breast cancer survivor

A Valentine to Cancer

Ah, February 14 – day of love and romance… chocolate and flowers… candy and… radiation?Ten years ago tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, I had my last radiation treatment for breast cancer. Arms overhead, my naked body was exposed to both the chilly air of the radiation suite and the silent rays of the X-ray machine. As... Read moreChevron
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Parenting Aspergers: When Your Spouse Doesn't Agree with the Diagnosis: One Woman's Story

The other day I was speaking with Jan, the mother of a 14 year-old boy who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (AS). She explained to me how the diagnosis finally made sense of her son's sometimes quirky behavior. For years, she had looked into different things: dyslexia, written expression disorder, ADHD and anxiety, but none of these really... Read moreChevron
posted 02/11/2012, comments (0)|
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Lene Andersen

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Writer, Advocate, Photographer

RA and Preventative Health Screening: Getting Scoped

Medications for rheumatoid arthritis can be hard on your stomach. Between heartburn, acid reflux, gas, GERD and other gastrointestinal shenanigans, chances are that sooner or later your doctor will suggest you get scoped. Even if you have the sound gastrointestinal constitution of a camel, there comes a time in your life where it just makes good... Read moreChevron
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Phyllis Johnson

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Inflammatory Breast Cancer Survivor

Susan Niebur and Her Indelible Marks

The members of the on-line support groups I belong to are in mourning.  Susan Niebur-- physicist, mother, wife, and writer-has died of inflammatory breast cancer almost five years after her diagnosis. Susan's cheerful smile is beloved by everyone who has been reading her blog Toddler Planet and following her journey as a mother and a cancer... Read moreChevron
posted 02/07/2012, comments (0)|

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