Archive for the ‘Diseases’ Category

• We are winning

  Monday, October 4th, 2010

  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is the time of year when women are asked and encouraged to go get their mammograms. But better yet, they should get theirs while taking someone they love with them. All around the country there are activities to bring to the forefront the need to save lives.   [...]

• Don’t tune this message out!

  Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  The television has become a constant backdrop to our busy lives. Most of us have learned to only snap to attention when key words alert us to information we want to watch. This year like so many others, public service messages are encouraging us to get our flu shots. But this year there has been [...]

• Wanting to be a mom doesn’t mean you should be one

  Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

  I was raised with a strong sense of responsibility and developed a deep maternal instinct. These two virtues can cause me to grind my back molars down to nubs when I witness people that lack either of the two virtues. After reading today’s Parade section about a young woman who desired to become a mother [...]

• Know when to shut up

  Saturday, September 26th, 2009

  The recent passing of Patrick Swayze from pancreatic cancer after a year and a half valiant fight, has left the world mourning. Swayze was beautiful inside and out. He had a way of reaching the soul of those that watched him. Bringing things into the story he was telling to make you feel the movement [...]

• H1N1 flu is going strong

  Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

  Classes have or are just starting in schools across the country and the worse thing to dread is not that hard grading professor or the bully in the hallway. The H1N1 virus is lurking in the dorms and classroom to infect unsuspecting students and faculty.   We all saw the concern that world leaders had [...]