Browsing All posts tagged under »life«

How to Live Forever

May 4, 2011

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Newsweek has an article called “How to Live Forever.”  In spite of that intriguing title, the article isn’t about living with your children or in the nursing home until the universe is finished being the universe and moves on to being something else. If everyone really could live forever, it would bring up other issues.  Like […]

Married to Mr Transportation

April 26, 2011

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  Now Husband Dan is thoughtful, physically affectionate, and never ends a phone call without saying “I love you.” For the last week, we have been living about 20 minutes away from each other and communicating mostly via phone. I have been on Anna Maria Island, helping Joyce. Dan has been in our trailer mobile home […]

Zombie Pustules From Outer Space

April 25, 2011

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There are a lot of rules that are important to one’s medical health.  One is: Don’t have a medical emergency on Easter Sunday.  The other is: If you have to have a medical emergency on Easter Sunday,  don’t talk about “Mafia Wives.”  My friend Joyce broke both of those rules.  The day went like this: Arrival of […]

This Ain’t No Grey’s Anatomy

April 20, 2011

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Joyce, a close friend of mine who lives in Florida,  took a fall a couple days ago.  I was visiting my son in Charleston when the phone call came to tell me what had happened.  I flew home, packed, turned around and flew to Florida to spend a week helping to take care of her.  Her surgery […]

I’ll Have Two Elf Ears and a Side of Bacon

April 19, 2011

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  Thanks to AARP, I have been alerted to a new trend in man’s ongoing quest for perfection: elf ears.  AARP states that “Body modification artists cut the tops of young people’s ears and sew them back together in a pointed shape.”  The  segment is titled, “Ah, Youth!  Sometimes we don’t miss it.”  I don’t […]

The Final Flush

April 13, 2011

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all purpose mani/pedi/colonoscopy/endoscopy/alien camera procedure room   A very short update on the tiny camera/spaceship in my body.  The hospital called today.  This was the conversation: Hey, Renee, this is Christine from the hospital.  How are you doing? Pain? Discomfort? Fine. No pain, nothing. Great.  I think I saw you in the nail place.  Tiffany Nails, […]

Voyage to the Center of My Intestines

April 12, 2011

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In modern medicine’s quest to find the reason for Life in the Boomer Lane’s anemia, she has so far had three procedures.  The first two were colonoscopy and endoscopy, detailed in a heartfelt yet humorous post. Yesterday, LBL had a third procedure: a “capsule endoscopy,” sometimes referred to as a “video endoscopy.”  This procedure uses a […]

Ouija Board: A Do-It-Yourself Seance

April 11, 2011

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  Before reading this post, you need to set aside all judgments you have about psychics, paranormal activity, spirits, and Langhorne, PA. Keep an open mind, as we take a trip into The Land of That Which Cannot Be Explained But Neither Can Anything Else.  Now Husband Dan and I spent the weekend visiting my […]

A Cat By Any Other Name

April 7, 2011

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Let’s make a few things really clear: Life in the Boomer Lane is not a cat person.  If you go into her house and see a cat (or a cat screaming to get into her house,) it’s because she is cat-sitting.  Her daughter owns the cat, which she named Miracle.  LBL thinks most modern miracles typically involve […]

Blogging. Clogging. Whatever.

April 5, 2011

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I think I Googled “clogging” instead of “blogging” It’s been a great week in Blogopolis:  I get a lot of positive comments from people in other countries that WordPress  labels Spam.  Some of them submit their comments in languages I don’t speak. Others submit in languages that no one on the planet speaks.   And sometimes, […]