Does cancer cause PTSD?
In cruising that vast sea of information (a/k/a wasting time online) called the internet, I ran across an article on how childhood cancer survivors don't get enough follow ups even though they are more likely to develop later cancers. I thought (a little only - I promise - too much thinking causes problems) and found several points in the article worthy of comment:- Cancer causes PTSD. Well I can buy that one. Being hit by the cancer bus is really more like being sideswiped by the giant cancer semi as it roars through your life and takes out

Reunions are funny things
But first a bit of morning's entertainment:I went to my 'ahem' several year high school reunion last night. There were all sorts of conversations about what everyone was doing since we graduated and about the ones who have died. One good friend died last year of pancreatic cancer. Another friend I found out had testicular cancer. A third had a brain tumor - don't know if it was benign or malignant. All this talk of cancer but did I talk about mine? No. I thought about it. Cancer should just be a blip in my life, not my whole life.Anyway, there were people there who looked 30 and people who looked 70. There were people who looked the same as high school and probably c

Communications Malpractice?
This was an interesting article in today's newspaper about how possible those lovely 'morons' (and I use the term loosely) committed communications malpractice when they broadsided the American public with those lovely new guidelines last week. The article is quite interesting and comments on the way the information was delivered - as a bombshell - and now has created a lot of mistrust in recommendations. It ends in this: 'The evidence so far points to a backlash of mistrust. Memo to the next panel: Remember the old Hippocratic oath, first do no harm.'I w

Well That Was Stupid
Yesterday I was spending quality time online (wasting time again) and found a holiday food calculator. This is one where you enter everything you eat and it tells you how much you are really eating in terms of fat grams and calories. There are three choices here: ignore the totals, lie and enter that you are eating a small portion of white meat and some steamed vegetables or skip the calculator. That was stupid to enter everything.This morning I still have to make two pies and go for a walk. I already made two pies, caramelized onions, cranberry sauce, and cornbread and something else I can't remember. H

Spare Time
Apparently I am supposed to have spare time in my life in the next few weeks. I don't have a doctor appointment until December 8, unless my therapist gets a cancellation and I can be squeezed in. So what to do with my spare time now that I don't have to go to the doctor or physical therapy? I can watch videos on You Tube:This is clearly a left over from Pinktober but I really like the janitor... He's a hoot.I can clean the house. Now why would I want to disturb my dust bunnies and do that?I can cook Thanksgiving food. I did start. We now have cranberry sauce. But I have lots more to make.I can go to work. Wow and get paid?