My friend's husband retired just one year ago.They took a bucket-list trip to Israel. Mostly, they were planning for the next stage of their lives, hoping to be grandparents and moving to be near their children. Then, the unexpected happened. While pushing the snowblower up their steep driveway, her husband had a massive heart attack [...]
I am touched by the sensitivity of this doctor. Here as an article with pearls of wisdom. WELL Sep 13, 2012, 12:01 AM The Widow's Doctor Visit By MIKKAEL A. SEKERES, M.D. I walked into the examination room and saw her sitting there, her arm around her 10-year-old son, her teenage daughter across the room. [...]
"Are you an oral cancer survivor?” I asked the man sitting next to me in a first class seat from Detroit to Seattle. He clearly had an indentation in his neck in addition to scarring. He answered, "Close, but no, I had Lymphoma". He teaches Dance Dynamics around the world. What’s that? Understanding where movement [...]
I was driving to Boston up 95 listening to LL Cool J on the radio, and a line came into my head: My name is Eva Grayzel I gotta story to tell That's good, I thought. I turned off the radio and the rhyming lines kept coming. I had to keep pulling over to write [...]
Today, I had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my chest in my radiated field just at my clavicle. It's small. It's not a cancer that spreads or threatens life in any way. The day before my scheduled surgery, I was telling my Mom that I need to tell my children. They are both at [...]
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A heart to heart with Joann Joann needs to hear stories of survival and overcoming adversity as she continues to heal from her losses. She is the manager of the Comprehensive Care Clinic at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, but to the students, she is the go-to person for emotional distress [...]
I was deeply touched by Stephen Flatow, a loving father who speaks from his heart about his daughter Alisa, 18 years after her murder in the Hamas suicide bombing known as the Kfar Darom bus attack. She was 19 years old and on her sixth trip to Israel, a country she loved. She assured her [...]
Can you be articulate and have no voice? The answer is YES. Today, I met Itzhak Brook. He is a survivor of throat cancer and required a full laryngectomy. Despite having no voice box, he produced an articulate whisper amplified by an excellent mike system. He spoke at the David Nasto Oral Cancer Awareness Walk. One [...]
Do you have any idea how much radiation you have had cumulatively? According to a recent article in the NY Times, CT scans deliver 100 to 500 times the radiation associated with an ordinary X-ray. 1.5 percent of all cancers that occur in the United States are caused by radiation exposure and CT accounts for [...]
