This is Happily Married, (c) by the artist, Margo Rivera-Weiss, and is rendered in India ink and multiple layers of watercol...
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Good News/Not Me; The Other Guy
The good news is that a solvent-free, less toxic chemo drug can add seven months to the lives of women with metastatic breast cancer, compared to another drug that's more toxic and is solvent-based. A recent study shows that Abraxane is better than Taxotere....
Mortality Pokes Its Nose in Our Lives Yet Again
On left: X-ray showing a pacemakerL had to wear a Holter monitor for a full day last week to test for arrhythmia. The cardiologist told him yesterday that he needs to get a pacemaker and defibrillator. The implant would be the size of a wallet, he said,...
Friday, May 22, 2009
Replacement Players Wanted at NBPD?
Excuses are just that...not worthy when wrong doingis at play. When Arb Campbell said he wasn't payingattention to the sexual harassment in his Department...that played well, until he himself came under agray cloud of interest. Arb was a nice guy, a...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Don't throw that old bra away!
Above is a fabric piece, In Memory of My Breasts, by Marcia Ginsberg, using old bras. It is part of an exhibit, The Healing Power of Art, opening on Thursday in Highland Park, Illinois, at The Art Center. If you're the practical type, you could use...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Walk this way
Our podiatrist has drilled it into us that walking barefoot is Bad, and so we hardly ever do (except in sand, that's OK). So I have been feeling wicked ever since Sunday, when I heard the benefits of walking and running barefoot and tried both. It started...
Born in East LA....
Cheech and Chong....made quite a living talking about marijuana and the culture of drugs. Theydid several movies....until finally....someonetook serious offense that Tommy Chong was tryingto make a buck or two selling "Bongs" on the WorldWide Web! ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Packs and groups and moots
Saturday we went to a memorial luncheon for a friend of L from work. She was amazingly competent, sharply witty, knowledgeable and patient, everybody said. She knew the answers to everyone's questions and where all the refills for everything were stored....
Monday, May 11, 2009
Neuropathy
And now a moment for another disease...This week happens to be National Neuropathy Week. I have a friend who has multifocal motor neuropathy, and is raising money for the Neuropathy Association by selling handmade jewelryYou can find out more about...
It is/It isn't about the Hair
This is my second post about Farrah Fawcett. Who woulda thunk it? I was struck by recent reports about her hair. People magazine tells us: A particularly cruel aspect of the disease is that Fawcett has now lost her iconic golden tresses. "The hair is...
Friday, May 8, 2009
Early Detection = Pound of Cure?
I was in the Ford dealership waiting room in Iowa City and came upon Wired magazine from January. The cover story showed a new way of getting at cancer--what used to be called in the last century "a paradigm shift." Since cancers caught early can usually...
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Cancer No One Talks About
It used to be no one dared speak its name--it was maybe, in an act of boldness, referred to the Big C. And to mention breast cancer--well, that necessitated saying the word "breast." The chatty Alice Roosevelt Longworth was silent about her radical mastectomy...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Bitch on 'BEZ
An interview with me is supposed to be on Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM, on Wed. morning, starting at about 9:30.http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_848.a...
Sunday, May 3, 2009
$17.3 Million only does the Upper Back Bay?
Funny, when politicians play their "Columbo" card...."Just one more thing Mr. Citizen!" "Oh, we havebeen busting buns for months now trying to get thecash to Dredge our bay......".....Yet, they failedto mention that the first dip from the pig troughwas...
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