When my father was 60 years old, I was surprised to notice early symptoms of dementia during a family weekend get-together. He’d ask Mom a question and then, fifteen minutes later, ask the same question again. This kind of forgetfulness […]
The prospect of gradually losing one’s eyesight and being totally in the dark is terrifying, but that’s what happens to people afflicted with macular degeneration. As with most illnesses known to man, traditional medicine is useless. This type of vision […]
Beginning at age 12, I was cursed with the Herpes Simplex-1 virus, an unwitting gift from my mom. I remember my mother occasionally sporting a cold sore throughout her adult life. Though somewhat unsightly, they were never significant and disappeared […]
When I first met my husband, he’d recently been diagnosed with gout – the body’s inability to metabolize uric acid normally. You can’t misidentify gout symptoms. When deposits of excess uric acid accumulate in the body’s joints like sharp-edged crystals, […]
High blood sugar is a startling new health epidemic in North America. High blood sugar results from the body’s inability to absorb glucose from the bloodstream into cell tissue. Statistics are shocking when you consider the skyrocketing increase in diagnoses […]
When my young adult daughter arrived home after a modeling job in the Caribbean, she was concerned about a strange, circular sore growing on her forehead and asked Dr. Mom what I thought of the growing blemish. Immediately I recognized […]
The very first day Hubby owned a brand new Yamaha 1100cc V-Star motorcycle, he practiced a life-saving technique that every motorcycle owner hopes never to have to utilize – dropping the bike sideways to avoid colliding with a careless driver […]
… makes for a cute breakfast cereal jingle, but those are not welcome sounds relative to aging bones! Osteoporosis, a severe loss of bone density, has plagued senior populations since the beginning of time, especially menopausal women. Before diagnostic testing […]
My beloved grandmother died of pancreatic cancer in 1991. She thought she had the flu in late March. She couldn’t eat without vomiting but wasn’t overly alarmed about not improving quickly because it was flu season, and she was elderly. […]
Of the many varieties of cancer, lung cancer affects my universe more than all others combined. Seven people I’ve known personally received the deadly diagnosis, and cigarettes instigated most cases. Two primary causes of lung cancer are cigarette smoking and […]