One of my best friends turned 50 three years ago. I developed a Turning Fifty Toolkit for her to provide some insight into aging from a nursing perspective. What are your thoughts? Did I miss anything? Turning 50 Toolkit Turning 50 is in no way a curse…a death sentence…a loss of all sense and reason.…
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Past Experiences, Present Beliefs and Future Fears
Eric and I spent the afternoon with friends today. Part of our discussion was on the recent shooting in Florida and our feelings about “fault”. I don’t typically write anything political, mainly because I don’t feel qualified. My knowledge is based on what I read and I try to read information on both sides of…
Read MoreStanding up
I was given an opportunity this week – one that both excited and terrified me. Our Women’s Ministry was holding a health conference – focused on the acronym SWEAT – She Will Endure All Things. Topics ranged from Meditation to Stretching and the main speakers discussed Passion and Perseverance. There was even a full-on exercise…
Read MoreI’m Feeling Quite Sleepy
I have insomnia…not the kind that prevents me from falling asleep but the kind that prevents me from staying asleep. Falling asleep I got down. Put me in the passenger seat in a car and I’m out. Let me lie down on the couch with an episode of NCIS, and I’ll have to rewind it…
Read MoreThere Should be a Pill for that…
Age has a way of changing us…outside and in. The outside changes are obvious…skin sags, wrinkles develop, and our hair changes color. Baby-Boomers are a huge marketing group for all things aging. Buy a new wrinkle cream, dark spot reducer or pill that promises to reduce belly fat. I wonder, sometimes, if all that focus is…
Read MoreWay Back When I Was Cute
Another throwback from my “My Life In the Fat Suit” blog from 2012- Eric and I have now been married 16 years so if anything, I’m even less cute now! Fortunately, our vision becomes soft focus in direct proportion to our spouses wrinkles, apparently! Regardless of how I’m feeling, the man still tells me I’m…
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2011 – at my heaviest
2012 – close to my lightest
Why is it called Menopause?
So…I’m wondering why they call it Menopause when it should be called Meno-irregular or BodyBigger or DiaphoresisOut-of-Control. I do realize that I’m actually in Peri-menopause which is when the symptoms are at their worst but Dear Lord, with the number of hot flashes I’m having, I should at least be losing water weight! But no…I got…
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Mothering, Marriage and Menopause 