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MEDICAL SCIENCE vs “I’VE GOT A HUNCH”

March 5, 2020 by

Medical science is not the same as a horse race; you can have a hunch about Big Red in the fifth, but a hunch about medical science? I don’t remember the last time I heard about a medical hunch, if I ever have. But if this hidden memory pops up, I hope the medical hunch […]

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MOHS SURGERY: WHAT TO EXPECT, HOW TO REACT

February 3, 2020 by

Mohs surgery is another way of saying: “WTF just happened to my face?” Everyone I’ve talked to has had a similar reaction to this: “I wasn’t expecting anything so dramatic.” Is that a ‘normal’ reaction? Based on experience, I say it is. Here’s why:

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SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

June 13, 2018 by

I am in a storage space in my house throwing away rings of gauze and squirt bottles of skin care and wound cleaner. It’s a throwback moment with Grandy, my mother in law who passed two years ago. If I had PTSD I would have been thrown back. Instead it was a sweet memory. But […]

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MILITARY PARADE IN ELEVEN ARMY MEDIC VETERAN STEPS

March 10, 2018 by

    1. Join the service and serve the agreed upon time. USMC, USN, USA, USAF, etc.   2. Go to boot camp. If it’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done the rest of your life, you’re not trying hard enough.   3. Go to school and get qualified to do a military job.   […]

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SECOND OPINION: WILL THAT BE ONE CHEMO OR TWO

June 26, 2017 by

From cancer.org: Cancer cells tend to grow fast, and chemo drugs kill fast-growing cells. But because these drugs travel throughout the body, they can affect normal, healthy cells that are fast-growing, too. Damage to healthy cells causes side effects. Side effects are not always as bad as you might expect, but many people worry about […]

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