Some months have past now since the first post on the frozen shoulder. I’ve worked my way through a bottle of pain pills and two bottles of anti-inflammatories. I’ve learned a bit also which I’ll pass down to you in the form of Boomer Wizzdom:
1. Always get a second opinion if your orthopedic surgeon wants [...]
It started as a quick tinge of pain when I reached into the back seat of the car for my raquetball raquet. Then, in the heat of the game, on a high overhead shot I felt it again. That excruciating pain in my shoulder.
Then slowly, as the months wore on, so did that pain [...]
A few months ago I was falling esleep when I heard a voice in my head tell me that I was going to die soon. I woke up and remember asking “When?” As I fell back to sleep, the reply was “Within three months.” That woke me up completely.
It wasn’t a dream. It was [...]
If you’ve looked in the juice department of your local Costco you might have seen pomegranate juice for sale there, and perhaps wondered why anyone would pay so much for the stuff.
Apparently research has shown that daily consumption of the antioxidants in pomegranate juice may offer health benefits such as:
Heart Health – Studies in laboratory [...]
I’m finally through the Efudex-40 treatment for skin cancer. And I can describe the experience as being similar to rubbing battery acid on your face twice a day. It just burns and burns and burns. Then after two weeks of this seriously masochistic procedure, you stop applying it . My face was looking [...]
From the last blog on Skin Cancer you probably all (all five of you) realize that I had squamous cell skin cancer, had the doctor cut it out, only to find from the lab that not all the skin cancer was removed. I was referred to a dermatologist who suggessted that I tried applying Efudex-40 [...]
When I was young, having a tan was a must have in order to look healthy. We never used sun screen. In fact, I don’t think it was invented yet. Those long days at the beach were spent collecting vitamin D, a tan, and a good feeling from being in the warm sun all day. [...]
Surfing USA
As you get older and your time becomes more precious, your priorities change and you are unfortunately forced to give up the things that once brought you happiness to new things that bring you financial rewards.
This is my excuse for not surfing as much. Because there are few things on life as enjoyable as [...]
“But First, Are You Experienced?”
A colonoscopy is the most dreaded and despised initiation rite of arriving at your 50’s. But, humbling as it may be, it has been found to identify 65% of pre-cancerous polyps in women.
So a colonoscopy experience can have redeeming features. A colonoscopy is like an advanced sigmoidoscopy. [...]