Category: health

  • Sledgehammers, Hazelnuts, Chemo and Cancer

    CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC ALERT: In recent news, TV personality Joan Lunden is on the cover of People magazine. She’s bald. She’s being celebrated. Why? Because Lunden is fighting breast cancer through the use of chemo. I feel the urge to be unabashedly honest here. Society tells me that I’m supposed to feel awe, love, empathy. That…

  • How Vitamin C KO’d My Sciatica

    I have an old injury from my military days, which contributed to the degeneration of discs in my L4/L5 spinal segment. In October 2013, issues with my lower back flared up again. By February, one of the discs had herniated severely compressing my thecal sac and left lateral recess, causing a horrible case of sciatica.…

  • Out With the New, In With the Old

    I’ll give you two seconds to wrap your mind around the fact that I intentionally did a twist on an old saying. For you young heads who may not know the saying at all, it went a little something like this: out with the old, in with the new. If you’re in a bad relationship,…