October 15, 2018

The Naysaying Nutritionist

I sat in the doctor/nutritionist’s office and did my best to absorb what she was saying. “No gluten. No dairy.  No sugar.”  (My three favorite foods in the world have to do with bread, cheese, and desserts.)…

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October 8, 2018

The Rest of the Story.

The high resolution chest C.T. results finally arrived and the short story is although I do have some nodules in my lungs, there doesn’t seem to be anything that needs immediate attention. There are a couple of issues that will need some follow-up, though. Since I have only read the report and not discussed it with a doctor, that’s the best summary I can come…

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October 1, 2018

The Many Sides of Sarah. An Old/New Friend.

Sarah was home from school this weekend. She had been away for a month which seemed like 79,000 years to me but that’s in Mama Years. I hope you appreciate the great framing of this photo; I made sure to include little stashes of junk on either side of her, just to let her beauty shine through more. As always, she and I have so…

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September 24, 2018

Lungs and Popcorn and Alma Maters

Last Thursday I took a trip to Greenville which, for me at least, is the medical/thrift store/Chick-fil-A capital of the world. And on that particular trip, I hit ’em all–got a sandwich at Chick-fil-A, bought a pair of cute, comfortable shoes at the thrift store (which were marked down from $8 to twenty-five cents) and visited a new (to me) medical building–East Carolina Heart Institute. Since…

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