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.
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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?”
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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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