For the first 41 years of my life I never really paid much attention to the sinuses or what they actually were. I just knew they were somehow connected to the nasal region. That was, until the day that my […]
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 […]
In a healthy person constipation does not occur, except perhaps occasionally. Most of us go though life unaware of how proper elimination works: we ingest food, our body utilizes what it can, then rejects the rest. Any waste matter ideally […]
… 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 […]
The duration of menopause varies woman to woman as much as the timing of its start. According to one menopause website, there are 36 symptoms of menopause, and 66 for perimenopause (the body’s natural transition period into permanent infertility). Personally, […]
Sleep. That beautiful state of unconsciousness we often don’t fully appreciate until those babies arrive, altering all thoughts of a whole uninterrupted night’s slumber ever again. Happily, that particular interrupted sleep situation does improve, but imagine one that does not!
Sleep […]
If you are itching and flaking, scratching and despairing, worry not, as consolation lies within the next few paragraphs. Some things in life are easy, despite all we are told otherwise. There are so many ways to treat dry skin […]
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 […]
Many years ago I owned a huge book about homeopathic remedies. One of the characteristics of this book was to describe conditions and symptoms. I had to stop reading this book as I found I was suffering everything, […]