Category: Health & Aging
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It Took More Than 10 Years…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI first applied for Randy to be admitted to the VA Health Care system more than 10 years ago. I tried again after we moved to Florida. He was denied both times because our household income exceeded the threshold Congress set in a law passed in 2003. It’s not a particularly big… Read more
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An Unexpected, Thoughtful Gift
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of days ago Randy and I got a package in the mail. In it was perhaps one of the most unexpected and thoughtful gifts we’ve ever received. The package was sent by our financial advisor and her office administrator in honor of our upcoming Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure… Read more
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What If…There’s No Money in a Healthy Population
Reading Time: 5 minutesImagine an America in which you had to go to a specialty store to get any clothes size with an X in it. Imagine an America in which you know almost no one taking prescription medicine. Imagine an America in which only 1 in 2,000 children are diagnosed with autism (as in… Read more
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A Good Night’s Sleep–Priceless
Reading Time: 2 minutesI woke up this morning groggy and sluggish. At least I slept, a little. As we age, good restful sleep seems harder and harder to achieve. And as we age we need good restful sleep more than ever. Good quality sleep boosts the immune system, enhancing our body’s ability to repair and… Read more
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What If…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat if we never lost our child-like wonder? What if we really knew our purpose? What if we are living in a computer simulation and nothing is real? What if we found out that most everything we believe to be true is really not? What if the world is destroyed by some… Read more
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Cleared for Splashdown
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday was a big day for me. The surgeon said I could immerse (swim, pool, beach) at 4 weeks post surgery–July 17. I’ve been waiting for this. Regular readers know that the water is my happy place! When I mentioned the upcoming momentous day last week to my besties at Girl’s… Read more
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These Bods Are Made For Walking
Reading Time: 6 minutesMy apologies to Nancy Sinatra. Scratching around for a blog post this week yielded nothing I could get excited enough to write about. Every topic I thought of was, as Yogi Berra famously said, “deja vu all over again.” I suppose that’s because I’m going through exactly what I went through just… Read more
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Look, Ma! No Bra!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI was born in 1954 so was an impressionable 14-year-old when, as a symbol of women’s liberation, a “bra burning” protest took place during the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. There’s no evidence there were any bras actually burned, but women of all shapes, sizes, ethnicity, and (presumably) religions, did… Read more
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Life on Pause
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week I wrote a post about my breasts trying to kill me. I didn’t realize that the double mastectomy I decided to have would be scheduled quite so quickly. When I told my doctor I hoped we could get surgery done fairly quickly. I was thinking 2 steps ahead so my… Read more
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My Breasts Are Trying to Kill Me
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn February I had my annual mammogram. When I was done, the technician came in and said the radiologist who had looked at my films said everything looked fine and they’d see me next year. Randy’s sister, Kristine, was visiting and accompanied me to the Breast Center in Venice so we picked… Read more