Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline - Dale E. Bredesen, MD Let's talk about genetics, shall we? I have always been curious about using one of those genetic testing services to find out about my ancestry. I had never really thought about using it to illuminate medical information.... Continue Reading →
Longtime readers have probably seen most of the faces in this photo. This was the last time we were all together in one place at the end of 2015. The new face in the photo is Chelsea, my oldest son's fiance (we love her!). Alex is off in New Mexico starting his adult life... Continue Reading →
Especially when your boys are willing to spend many hours playing card games with you to break up the time spent reading on your new kindle or in front of the TV: We've had this game for awhile but at first our brains hurt or we were just too tired or something to want... Continue Reading →
No, I didn't get a dog (oh, how THAT would traumatize my spoiled kitties!!) But, I did borrow a dog to participate in another Just For Fun 5k event - The Petco K9 5K that was held Sunday at the racetrack just by my house. As you can tell from the pictures - it... Continue Reading →
OK, so I am not transitioning DIRECTLY into fluffy fun from yesterday. There's a transition of sorts. As I hinted at in my race report, there have been some err....female problems..going on recently as I approach that time in a gal's life when certain reproductive systems prepare to take a dirt nap 🙂 When I... Continue Reading →
I passed my latest blood test with flying colors! Cholesterol is down. Triglycerides are way down. I didn't even have to debate with my doctor on medication - she was thrilled with how the Lovaza+diet+exercise seems to have done the trick. Unfortunately for my wallet, the Lovaza is a fairly recent FDA approved pure Omega... Continue Reading →
Ladies – raise your hands if you knew exactly what I meant just by that title. Now, I promise I’m not going to go into humiliatingly graphic detail here - isn’t it enough that I’m posting pictures of me from the 80s? - but I still have a few items to get off my... Continue Reading →
I recently wrote about my little issue with Proper Names and how they have vanished from my brain. Here's a couple of examples of this from this past week: Ran into a friend and her son while out running errands one night. The mom and I chatted, the boy says "Hi Ms N" and I... Continue Reading →
This all started back in 2006 when I was 41 and thought I should have some blood work done because I hadn't ever done it (well except when they test your iron before donating which up until then had always been fine). I was a quite shocked to find out that my cholesterol readings were... Continue Reading →
**Oops - the problem with having two blogs!! But since this already went out on Twitter from this site, I'll leave it** On Rachel Maddow's show tonight they listed all of the items that will take effect within the next year in the Healthcare Reform bill which passed this weekend. I've emailed them to ask... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 