Category Archives: Health
The Power of…
My diet is so bland at times and the only thing I use as a reward system is scotch and wine. I don’t eat sweets much and I don’t like chocolate. Continue reading
My Last Vice
Sometime last week I realized I was my own worst enemy. I’ve been suffering from insomnia and migraines but I haven’t stopped drinking. Any idiot knows that those three don’t play well together. Continue reading
Tired of taking care of myself!
What was the most bang-for-the-buck and what was really required and what could go away. I don’t want to think about the money I’d been spending. Several of the things I was taking cost upwards of $90 a month. Trust me, I could do the math but it would make me cry. Continue reading
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A Bump in the Road
I’ve had migraines all my life, but a year and a half ago something changed. My migraines used to be bolts out of the darkness, more frequent than a Blue Moon but not as frequent as a new one. Then all that changed and they became chronic – nearly untreatable and completely unmanageable. Continue reading
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Leave me alone – I want to stay in bed!
Changing behaviors takes effort, taking a pill only means remembering to take the pill. Continue reading
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HPV Vaccinations – By the Numbers
Yes – HPV is very infectious but statistically it’s not killer. Continue reading
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Simplification Gone Wrong!
Too often we take a microcosm and think that it is a macrocosm. The card printing department made a decision that affected so many more people. None of us operate in a closed system – what we do, how we run our businesses and our lives impacts the world around us.
Washing hands – the myth of a clean world
Now I’m not saying that we are going to develop a ‘superbug’ this way – but it just seems to me to be a bad trend. We know that decades of giving antibiotics to anyone and everyone created some hellish strains of resistant bacteria. Right now infections in hospitals are up – not ones you come in with but the ones you get once you are there.
It seems to me such a simple thing to avoid. Continue reading
Healthcare?
You can read all the stats on who’s covered, who isn’t, all the horror stories of healthcare gone wrong, all the stories of waste and malfeasance. But none of those are going to make you change your mind… because for a lot of us, what we have works for us and we are afraid that by moving to a different system we will have less.
