“Ooh, I love the way this colonoscopy prep tastes – bring it on!” said no one, ever. Let me reassure you. It’s so common to dread it. In fact, it’s the procedure before the procedure that causes most people – myself included – the most angst. It's hard to find an equivalent of unpleasantness. (All I can think of is going to the dentist times a zillion.) But it’s a necessary evil. A squeaky-clean colon is the best – and only – way to detect colon polyps and colon cancer early, when it’s easiest to treat. Any debris or particle left behind could be covering up or hiding something serious lurking { Read More }
Ten Things Every Woman Should Know About Colon Cancer
Colon cancer is not the most "glamorous" of cancers...if you can call cancer "glamourous." What I mean is that it hasn't been celebrated with pink bows and balloons and marches and merchandise. Rather, because it involves a less-than-appealing part of the body, many people run the other way when it comes to awareness and screening, using not-so-sophisticated but appropriate words like "ewwww," "gross," "revolting," and "I'd rather NOT." Okay, I get it. But we really need to grow up. True story: Years ago, I chatted with an acquaintance, Amy, as she approached her 50th birthday. When I { Read More }
5 Things to Expect When Your Eyes Start Changing
Until this so-called midlife, you probably didn’t think much about your eyes… beyond going for your annual eye exam and figuring out which eyeglass frame best suited your face or which contact lens was the most comfortable. (If you’re not needing glasses full-time yet– like my husband, lucky guy - it’s likely you’re at least using reading glasses, which most of us begin to need in our early to mid-40s.) But as I recently learned first-hand when I had a detached retina (you can read all about it here), we can’t take our eyes for granted. Our eyes, along with many other body parts, change with { Read More }
7 Important Facts Every Woman Needs to Know About Heart Attacks
Women are three times more likely to die of a serious heart attack than are men. That’s the findings of a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, highlighting a few serious facts. Heart attacks in women are not usually the typical movie version of the elephant-sitting-on-your-chest. 1.Despite decades of awareness and prevention, heart disease continues to be the number one cause of death in this country. 2. Heart attacks kill more women than all forms of cancer combined, killing one woman every minute. 3. While having a healthy lifestyle is a good preventative measure { Read More }
Here’s How to Slow Down Time
It's crazy how time seems to go faster and faster the older we get, isn't it? I read that somewhere once. Whoever wrote it explained that it was something about the measurement of time related to the ratio of years we've already lived versus the years we have left to live. Trying to explain this further or understand it more precisely makes me think too hard and hurts my head, so I won't. (It also makes me all philosophical and edge precipitously close to an all-out existential crisis, which I'd prefer not to do. Especially now.) That's because I recently suffered what is mostly one of those { Read More }
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