Category: Health & Aging
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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