Drugs of Choice
Do you also have this discussion in your home: A medication will expire and one of you will want to get rid of it while the other thinks it’s a waste. …
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Diet Obsessions
By the time a Canadian girl is 14, she has been on 1100 diets. Okay, I obviously made that up. But it seems that teen females are experimenting with hazardous eating regimens just like my friends and I did back in the day. …
Happy International Hearing Day!
If you forgot to get me a card, well, that’s quite alright. But I am a bit of a poster child for hearing loss. …
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Disappointment All Around
The Bishop of the Catholic diocese of London is “profoundly disappointed” in the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn a ban on doctor assisted death in cases of terminal illness. I am profoundly disappointed in anyone who’s profoundly disappointed in this decision. …
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Reality Bites in my (Ample) Butt!
Yeah, it’s that time. New year, new start. No more candy or junk food within my sight, please. It’s time to get to know more vegetables and reacquaint myself with the treadmill again, for more than just airing out clothing! …
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Bringing Back the Heat
Not a lot of women like to talk about menopause. Scratch that. They don’t like to bring it up. Once the topic is introduced, they can’t stop talking about it! I’m trying to see it as a positive thing, like Raj in the Big Bang Theory did when he described it as, “nature’s birth control”! Â …
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My Left Foot Part Deux
So I told you a couple of weeks ago about my fall and showed you photos of the festive colours of my foot. But there’s more! After aching and staying swollen, one day, it took a turn. The ache turned into a stab and I knew something was wrong. …
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Getting to Know Ebola
There is no need to panic. But there’s no cause to dismiss Ebola either. Â …
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Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum
Today, my birthday (shameless attempt to receive birthday wishes!) I will take stock of my life. What have I done in the past year? Where am I compared to where I want to be in life?  All of those things.  And perhaps the best thing I’ve done for myself, besides topping up my contributions to the company pension plan, was starting drumming lessons. What follows may seem like a bit of a downer but that’s not how I’m choosing to view it. It’s just a pause on the road to becoming the best John Bonham I can be. …
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Yesterday Was What Day?
**This blog post originally appeared on the Blackburn News website:
Sepsis. It doesn’t have a wristband or a colour of its own. There are no runs or telethons for it. And yet statistically it’s deadlier than heart disease, stroke and many other well-known illnesses. Every 3-4 seconds someone in the world dies from sepsis. And 3 years ago, I was almost one of them. …
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But for the Grace….
You don’t have to know who Deryck Whibley is or have ever even heard of his band, Sum 41, to understand the human agony of what he has done to himself. …
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Dr. Feel Bad or Worse
Doctor, doctor, give me the news.  And then I’ll go to another doctor to make sure you’re right. …
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Fat Bottomed Girls (And Boys)
I spent my whole life until this point trying to make my body into a shape it wasn’t meant to be and felt disappointment every time I failed. Â I will never be lithe, gazelle-like or confused with Heidi Klum. And that’s okay. Heidi Klum only wishes she could be confused with me! Â *snap* …
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In Conversation with my Dermatologist – December 13, 2007
The scene: the doctor’s office, as his kindly face is within millimetres of mine, perusing the eradication of a minor skin issue. And we pick things up mid-conversation: …
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Lifetime Error #6,549
I knew better, I really did. But I bought the glue-on temporary nails anyway. “They could really mess up my real nails”, I thought. Â But then something overrode that concern and I made the purchase. Â …
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Rights Can be Wrong
This is a sticky story that gets me a little fired up. It’s about accommodating for someone’s special situation, such as a disability, and it seems to me it’s getting out of control. Â A Hamilton mom is proving it with her human rights complaint. Â …
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A Cold Shot
Late last year the Ontario Nurses Association started a campaign against health care facilities forcing them to get the flu shot. This is a problem on several levels. …