I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

In my last blog, Life Lessons Learned from Being Temporarily Disabled, I promised to disclose what I learned about sex from being temporarily disabled. It is with some trepidation that I now fulfill ...

Well, I’ve learned a few things about myself this summer … not pleasant things, either. It started May 9 when I didn’t lift my heel high enough, tripped on the door jamb and fell out the back door ...

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You never forget the first time a doctor gives up: when they tell you that they don’t know what to do—they have no further tests to run, no treatments to offer—and that you’re on your own. It happened ...