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Not long ago, it was the full Fall Moon. I didn’t know that, but Grandpa did. When I went upstairs to a breakfast of cereal, Grandpa glanced up at me as he pulled his laced leather boots on. “You see the full moon?” he asked. My eyebrows shot up. “It’s real bright. It’s the Fall Moon,” he continued...
Years ago, while speaking to 120 pharmacy students in an auditorium in Pullman, Washington, I had my first hot flash. First, my scalp suddenly started feeling hot and prickly. Then, two heartbeats later, a shower of sweat gushed down my neck and back. In less than 5 seconds, I was soaking wet!
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Grandma Gay sent me home with a whole lot of apples from her back yard trees. It being the season for apples, I was trying to find a good recipe for them when I came across my stack cake recipe.
A few years back I found a recipe for old fashioned stack cakes. Folklore has it when there was a...
“I don’t think I can take this medicine for the next five months, let alone five years,” insisted Robbie, a 61-year-old breast cancer survivor.
After completing chemotherapy and surgery six months ago, Robbie’s doctor prescribed an anti-estrogen medicine called Arimidex® (anastrozole) to help...
Sonny and I took a trip to visit Grandma Gay and Grandpa Monte. I always get a good chuckle as I enter their home, then turn around on my way to close the door behind me and peer through their wide screen door. In my mind's eye, I see Sonny, five years old, lying flat on his belly as if he’d...
What do you reach for when cleaning a kitchen cutting board or caring for a scratch? A disinfectant, antiseptic, or an antibiotic?
Disinfectants and antiseptics are chemical compounds with the power to either completely destroy organisms that cause disease or keep them from multiplying. These...
As the seasons change, our immune systems must overcome a new set of variables to keep us healthy. Doctors can only do so much, and I firmly believe it is up to me to do the best I can to stay as healthy as I can.
The best way I know to stay healthy is to maintain and strengthen my immune system....
Q: What is RSV?
Respiratory syncytial virus, abbreviated RSV, is also known as human orthopneumovirus. One of the most common causes of severe respiratory illness in young children, RSV also causes hospitalizations and death in older adults with heart and lung problems.
Q: Is RSV the...
It’s nice to know how to make sauces like white sauce, cheese sauce, and gravy.
I’ll never forget the first time I actually considered gravy-making. I was seven, maybe eight years old, and Mom, now Grandma, was shopping for supplies and restocking the larders for winter a few towns away, leaving...
Q: When is the best time to get a flu shot?
The CDC recommends those aged 65 and older get vaccinated in September or October rather than earlier. There is no “late” cutoff; you can be vaccinated anytime during flu season.
Young children aged 6 months through 8 years getting the flu...
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