Tuesday morning I woke up gasping. I could hardly get out of bed. The pain in my lower back and hips was excruciating. Slowly I rolled over to put my feet on the floor, grasping the edge of the mattress and using the bedside table for leverage. In the hallway I allowed myself to whimper [...]
In the January/February 2011 issue of Women’s Health Magazine, one part of a story about personal trainers jumped out at me. These are trainers who work with Hollywood celebrities so you might expect an expensive gym membership or high-end exercise equipment would topping the list for success, but most of the routines were things I [...]
Just had a great phone conversation with my sister. She told me about a woman who is suffering unexpected results from cancer treatment. I think she recognizes her immune system is shot and it sounds like she feels there’s no hope of escaping from the pain she’s experiencing. Without standing on a soapbox to declare [...]
That’s right! You’re a Superhero, complete with a costume that would make Spiderman jealous, but it’s under your skin. It’s an intricate system called Fascia that covers every organ and all the muscles in your body. If one part of your costume gets bunched up (like a saggy sock in the toe of your left [...]
As much as I want to resist turning this blog into a chronological history of my journey, I think a little bit of it will be helpful to give an overview. So here we go… As a child I think I was pretty normal. (Wait! What’s normal?) Generally I was healthy. The 60′s were the [...]
