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I am recuperating from my surgery. It has been 8 days now. I am starting to get to the annoyed stage. The seriously annoyed stage. First of ...

Can you answer these three questions from the Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS):  How confident are you in filling out medical forms on yo...

All cancer tumors start small and end up bigger. This is logic that is clear as day.  Tumors don't show up 3 cm across out of nowhere. A...

Everyone's road through chemotherapy is a bit unique. We all face our demons of nausea, fatigue, hair loss, and emotional ups and downs ...

I haven't been so trapped at home since chemo. Then I was too sick to care that I spent my life inside watching TV, hanging out with the...

There is always more research going on - especially cancer research. Especially breast cancer research. I swear sometimes the world is full ...

I don't do pink things. I detest things where if you had breast cancer you are supposed to cover yourself in pink, including a few boas,...

Surgery number nine was yesterday. I thought the surgeon was going to clean out my knee arthroscopically so it would no longer catch and loc...

As part of the universal pinkification of October, Good Housekeeping magazine has a section on breast cancer (who knew?). But one thing they...

A couple of years ago around this time, I was dealing with a series of minor health problems. I developed a sinus infection that took severa...

Today is pre-op day. Tomorrow I am having minor arthroscopic knee surgery. Its no big deal. An in and out procedure that should last an hour...

Millions of Americans suffer from a potentially fatal disease that has  become so common  over the past decade that it has  lowered the aver...

Recently I blogged about being aggravated and frustrated when having lunch with a couple of old friends. I was very upset by the end of that...

Its now Pinktober. It will be horrible. There will be pink on everything. There were even little pink ribbons on the bananas I bought last w...

Today I was at an event where I might have fallen a tiny bit. I must say I am not completely unfamiliar with the room because I was in that ...

I have no idea what I did but my cholesterol is much better than it was a year ago. I don't know what I have done differently with my di...

This morning I go off to my primary care for my annual physical. Although there are lingering thoughts of 'what if she finds something b...

How is your sense of humor on a normal day? This is a serious question. Do you keep your sense of humor? Do you have a sense of humor? If yo...

Yesterday I had lunch with two friends who I have known for a very long time. One since the 1970s and the other since the 1980s. While I hav...

With a slew of health ailments comes lots of responsibility.  I need to take responsibility for taking my medications, getting to my doctor ...