I have a friend at work that has a grandson that has been diagnosed with child attention deficit disorder. After chatting with her about it for a while I began to wonder how it is possible to tell the difference between someone with ADD and someone who is just plain difficult. It seems to be [...]
Seizures have been an important part of my life since I was 3 ? years old. At birth, it was believe that the forceps were responsible for lesions in the brain. At the tender age of three, I fell down the stairs, hitting the top of my head three times before my dad could catch [...]
Prevention is the key to anything. So start taking care of yourself?whatever that means to you.
There are guidelines to everything. Information for mammograms, colonoscopies, standard blood tests, calorie amounts, and types of exercise are so numerous, I don?t need to go over them here. What I do need to do is highlight the [...]
You may be getting to that age, even though you may not want to admit it, that you can’t see the stop sign from 50 feet away anymore. But you also can’t see it clearly when you’re 5 feet away from it either.
Nearsightedness, or the inability to see long distances, is something you may [...]
You know, even back in the seventies and eighties people weren’t going around admitting that they’d had a panic attack. Earlier in the twentieth century if you would have told people about your sudden rushes of overwhelming intense fear, you would probably have been treated alot differently than you are today. Not that we’re treated [...]
When I turned 40, I notice that text would be blurry when I tried to read it up close. At first I ignored this, but after a year or so, I noticed that I was holding packages and books at arms length in order to see them. The first time I caught myself [...]
We?re all going to die! No getting around it. Death is inescapable. We like to think that only the sick, the weak and the old die. It just isn?t true. Allegedly healthy people just drop dead all the time. Conversely exists my father?s mother, who smoked Pall Malls without [...]
Well my friend?s grandmother just got one of those nifty motorized scooters and she wheeled it right into Starbucks and sat down with us for Coffee. Pretty cool and she got one that matched her SUV and it sits on a little rack that comes out of the trailer hitch class five slot. Anyway, she [...]
For a family, one of the foundations to have a loving and peaceful home is when family members stay healthy and live well. Staying healthy is equivalent to being free of terrible ailments and having the right medications and other medical supplies in case sickness do come. If you?re a head of the family, you [...]
I always thought of myself as a klutz. Always falling, skinned knees were common. Isn’t there a time in the aging process when you grow out of that…like the teens? People referred to me as the most uncoordinated person they knew. It was a joke, to which I got a little [...]
