The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. Mark Twain Eating healthy is more often than not easier said than done. For a period of time in my early twenties I really tried […]
I am a fairly healthy person. Except for.. well, I was going to joke and list 1000 things wrong with me. But maybe that wouldn’t be funny. To me it is. I’m an acquired taste perhaps. But, most of the time my labs come back perfectly. Except this […]
What I didn’t know 190 days ago about what today would be like July 30th is here and it is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s birthday. It is also an important day for soccer aficionados as that is when the first FIFA world cup was won back in 1930. […]
To say I had a horrifying experience three weeks ago when I underwent two MRIs would be an understatement. I did manage to get through it to only have to wait two weeks to get my results. Do not get me started on how annoying the wait and […]
I woke up at 5:10am, showered, got dressed and downed two cups of coffee. I got on the 6am train and made my way to my 7am appointment with a laboratory tests medical office. I rang the buzzer a total of ten times before I was let in […]
It is a major flu season. Local pharmacies are running out of the flu vaccine. There is a high probability that you just sneezed in the last few hours. If you just sneezed, something was probably irritating or tickling the inside of your nose. And if you just […]
Let me just state I have already had three venti-sized skinny vanilla lattes and it is only 11:30am. This morning has been one of those physically rough ones. Woke up early, ahead of my two-day long meeting, to work out. I had even put on my life is […]
Last week’s buzzword at the International AIDS Conference is marriage. Not the gay marriage debate currently raging in the United States, but rather the marriage of biomedical advances with behavioral interventions as the next step forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Certainly, biomedical advances alone are not enough, […]
Okay, listen up conference attendees, I don’t often assume the mantle of Miss Manners and discuss etiquette, but this is where you’ve driven me. Here’s the background. I work out. I don’t love to work out, but I do like to be able to fit into my dresses. […]
The tradition of giving gift bags to attendees at professional conferences started with the Aztecs. As a courtesy, priests visiting from different cities were handed a complementary bag of human hearts to take home, because obviously, unless you can display a set of useless set of branded trinkets, […]
