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 […]
Heartburn is pure misery, as anyone who has ever experienced it knows. The sensation occurs behind the breastbone, though it has nothing to do with the heart. It’s a rare person who hasn’t had heartburn at least once, and the […]
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, […]
“Insomnia is a kind of torture, because while the world is fast asleep, you’re up all alone, your mind buzzing with every random thought in the universe, and sometimes the thoughts will reach a standstill, and your mind goes blank, […]
A few years ago, I had a scrape on my foot that kept re-opening. I went to the beach and I wanted to go in the water, so I taped a bag over my foot. Well, the tape got loose […]
Is the knee bend part of the hokey cokey impossible for you? Is reaching anything off a bottom shelf in a shop tricky? Have you found yourself bent down in the kitchen and had to lift yourself up using the […]
Inflammation has long been a regular companion of mine from the time I was a teenager. As a teen, I suffered from regular severe seasonal allergies, intestinal and menstrual cramping, brain fog, and other ailments that are a result of […]
When my oldest son was born, the nurse-midwife made me take intravenous antibiotics because I had tested positive for a strain of bacteria that could pose a risk of infection to my son. Of course, within a couple of weeks […]
As a woman in her mid-forties, I am very interested in what to expect as I approach menopause. I cannot ask my mother or grandmothers for advice or stories though. Only one of my grandmothers is still living and she […]
About two years ago, I started getting nasty headaches. I had gotten headaches before, but they were usually associated with food poisoning or the flu. These were different. I usually felt a little dizzy and my vision got slightly blurry, […]