Category: Health
26 May, 2010 (22:03) | Art, Family & Friends, Health, Holiday Fun, Life, Painting, Teaching Art | No comments
Well, I’m winning the battle of infection from my last surgery, slowly. The second reconstructive surgery didn’t heal well so it’s been a hard go, and I’m still on the antibiotics and still needing dressing changes daily. I’m so tired of being under the weather, fatigued, and fearing illness. I was so delighted to be [...]
6 October, 2009 (23:49) | Family & Friends, Health, Life | 1 comment
Okay folks. Time to unload your change, piggy banks and pockets It’s October. Breast Cancer awareness month, and I’m sitting here crying, remembering what I went through, from the beginning to the end. First, it was the uh oh, something’s wrong. Then it was definitely not good. Then it was this horrible two needle biopsy [...]
5 July, 2009 (23:56) | Art, Health, Life, Miscellaneous, Painting, Teaching Art | No comments
I am so grateful for the gift of vision after being nearly blind for so long. Every day, I’m surprised with what I can see, like flutterbyes and birds and buds and insects and and and…I am so grateful. Having new eyes has opened my eyes, in every way. I can’t believe I painted without [...]
6 February, 2009 (13:56) | Food, Health, Life, Salmonella Outbreaks | No comments
A Good List to Keep Your Eyes on Technorati Tags: accountability, current recalls, food poisoning, major food industries, peanuts
4 December, 2008 (17:59) | Family & Friends, Health, Life, Paths | 1 comment
I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A [...]
3 November, 2008 (18:34) | Health, Life, Social Comments | No comments
This one says it all for the health of our childrens’ future. Click on the image to enlarge No tags for this post.
12 June, 2008 (10:13) | Health | No comments
Well folks, i’ve managed to get hurt once again. I had a back spasm (very painful of course) while bending over to trim my toenails, fell and broke a rib. Nature’s way of telling me to slow down, I guess. The pain is excruciating, the pain meds are mind numbing. I will heal. Anyone who [...]
23 March, 2008 (10:26) | Health, Life, Miscellaneous | 5 comments
Routine [tag]mammograms[/tag], we dread them, make jokes about them and most of us don’t worry about them, especially if there isn’t a strong familial history of breast cancer. That is about where I was about a year and a half ago. I have been routinely screened for many years, starting in my early forties, and [...]