Tag: Health
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How to lose forty pounds without hardly trying
About a year ago I decided to lose weight again. I weighed nearly as much as I ever had. They say one of the sure signs of insanity is to do the same thing again and expect a different result. So likely if I went on another diet I would just end up putting it…
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Update on my health
Having a brain cancer is no fun, particularly a glioblastoma which is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer. But all things considered, having endured thirty-one radiation treatments, I’m doing pretty good. There is some small chance that radiation and chemotherapy will kill any of these tumor cells that are left. While there is nothing…
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Pain in the butt
I’ve been told as you age random things start happening. That been true for me, quite literally. My butt has been hurting, a gradual thing developing over six months or so. Initially I mistook the pangs I felt for a hemorrhoid. But no, it wasn’t that, at least when my doctor checked. So I mostly…
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Breathing easier
I’ve spent three years now connected to a machine while I sleep. This is because I suffer from sleep apnea. Until recently much of that sleep was restless. For the first couple of months it was downright annoying. This was because while the respirator that controls my sleep apnea made sure I breathed regularly, it…
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Aging gratefully
Another birthday rolled around yesterday. For once the first of February felt like it should: bitterly cold and snowing. I am not much on celebrating birthdays, which is probably why I scheduled an outpatient procedure on my birthday. Specifically, I had a colonoscopy, a distasteful but necessary procedure for us insured humans age fifty plus.…
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One year later: my healthier living update
About a year ago, I wrote that I would periodically keep you abreast on my journey of weight loss and healthier living. (Actually, I wrote this mostly to remind myself so I would not slip.) Based on previous attempts at dieting, I discovered a truth: taking weight off is relatively easy. Keeping it off is…
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We have to go, and go, and go
Friend, do you suffer from BPH? If you are female, I can definitely say no. For you have to be born male to get BPH. Men generally discover by the time they are forty or so one inconvenient truths about middle age men, specifically they cannot get through the night without shuffling a couple times…
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The Ten Percent Solution?
One of the reasons to read The Huffington Post is to get your celebrity kicks. I have to confess I don’t care too much about what celebrities are doing, Jewel Staite being the possible exception. Yet, it was on Huffpost that I read about the latest celebrity yo-yo dieter, in this case the actress Kirstie…
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The Agony of the Feet, Part Two
I am feeling a bit like Peter Pan these days. Peter Pan was the only male I knew who regularly wore green stockings. I understand that during the Middle Age, men also wore stockings. These days though men who wear stockings are either getting in touch with their feminine side or suffering with vein disease.…
Occam's Razor 