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Putting the Us Back in UterUs
Life in the Boomer Lane has noticed that, in addition to car keys, cell phones, and Kindles, she has also lost body parts. Her knee, brain cells, the better parts of several teeth, several inches of height, and her uterus are now history. She had thought these were gone for good, until she saw […]
The Hospital, the ER, the ER, and the Hospital
December 9, 2015
Imagine a scenario in which you enter the hospital for routine, outpatient hernia surgery. You know you are brewing a cold (or worse), but you don’t want to have to reschedule the surgery, so you don’t tell your doctor you are getting sick. Your surgery is performed, and you go home. Two days later, you […]
Take my knee. Please.
December 22, 2011
NBC News yesterday evening came out with a breaking (No pun intended. But I wouldn’t believe that last sentence, if I were you.) story about the upsurge in hip and knee replacements among boomers. Boomers have long felt that they were only as old as they believed themselves to be. For this reason, they consider […]
The Truth About Fat Cells
September 21, 2011
More, the magazine for “older” women who are now young enough to be the children of Boomers, gives us a bit of interesting and alarming information that all of us should pay attention to. According to More, “fat liposuctioned from the hips could reappear in as little as 12 months. The body defends its fat, […]
This Ain’t No Grey’s Anatomy
April 20, 2011
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 […]
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