cronereport.com

Note to self:
Next time you buy a new pair of sneakers, don’t break them in by going on a 3-mile walk. Without socks.

[Read more →]

Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]

[Read more →]

An article in the New York Times states:
The United States has a long history of separating the treatment of mental and physical illnesses, dating back to the days when the severely mentally ill were put in poorhouses, jails and, later, public asylums. That ended after the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, but mental health experts [...]

[Read more →]

Looks like I’m not the only one who picked up on the telltale signs of migraine in the Harry Potter books. I hadn’t thought about the scar in that respect, but when he is gets a pounding headache from the fluorescent lights in his aunt’s kitchen, I had my Aha! moment.

[Read more →]

My plans for today:
1. An appointment at DMV
2. Get a chunk of skin cancer removed from my face
3. Do my taxes.
As Barry said, “Gee, can’t you fit a root canal in there somewhere?”

[Read more →]

Last week I wrote about how a cancer diagnosis of benign carcinoma is the best bad news ever.
Finding out that a dear friend died is the worst.
I didn’t know Martha well, but she was the beloved wife of a beloved friend of my own beloved husband, and that’s close enough for me to shed a [...]

[Read more →]

Hey! I’m doing well. I only have 19 of the 35 symptoms of menopause.
And no, I’m not going to tell you which 19.

Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and/or cold flashes, clammy
feeling
Irregular heart beat
Irritability
Mood swings, sudden tears
Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
Irregular periods; shorter, lighter periods; heavier periods,
flooding; phantom periods, shorter cycles, [...]

[Read more →]

One of the realities of getting older is that cancer becomes less an abstract thing that happens to people Someday Far in the Future if they smoke or drink too much or get too much sun or eat too much bacon, and more something that your friends and family are dealing with. Since moving to [...]

[Read more →]