Category: Health

  • Tired or Sleepy?

    Tired or Sleepy?

    There is a slight difference between being tired and needing sleep.

  • Thank you to my readers!

    Thank you to my readers!

    Dear Readers, thanks to you, my book is #81 in Physician & Patient Healing!

  • 24

    24

    My memoir, How Not to Break Your Leg: A Fiftysomething’s Guide to Healing, is my best-selling book!

  • Tightening Things Up

    Tightening Things Up

    I know my life on this earth is limited, as it is for all of us, but I want to do my best to care for the body the Lord has given me and to be successful in achieving the things he has for me to do.

  • Current Read

    Current Read

    Incurable Optimist:Living with Illness & Chronic Hope is a very well written book by author Jennifer Cramer-Miller…

  • On Abstinence

    On Abstinence

    When I was a teenager and twenty-something, and not a Christian, my virginity was considered a liability. I wasn’t the only one who felt that way; many people look down on themselves and others in that category, but it occurs to me that there is value to virginity and abstinence.

  • Inventions and other madness

    Inventions and other madness

    Why not invent an artificial kidney? We have artificial hearts. Why not bypass the kidneys altogether?

  • Sometimes I splurge

    Sometimes I splurge

    An excerpt from my new book on chronic kidney disease: I try to avoid things I love like milkshakes, meat burgers, lots of sweets and so on, but sometimes I splurge. I guess moderation is the name of the game, but occasionally, I drink milk, eat a steak or have some chocolate.

  • How hot is it… ?

    How hot is it… ?

    Last September: So you may be aware that the USA has been in the throes of what may be global warming. In any case, with record highs, it has been near or over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the past few days…

  • Cramps

    Cramps

    I used to get up in the night with cramps in my thighs. I had to walk them out, and would sometimes eat bananas or pickle juice to combat the symptoms, but with CKD, I get cramps in my feet, and those are worse.