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• Ever been 'that flu guy?'

  Tue Jan 25, 2011
  • Oh yea...I forgot to mention it...most of the time I worked in "one-girl" offices and yes, I WAS missed!

• Ever been 'that flu guy?'

  Tue Jan 25, 2011
  • I was a single mother for many years and couldn't afford to stay home sick. Typically, any job I had had five paid sick days per year. My daughter is a manager for a well-known restaurant and she has only three. I'd go to work sick and tried to keep my sick days.

• Many breast-fed babies lack vitamin D

  Sun Nov 7, 2010
  • I still have my baby book (Better Homes and Gardens, circa 1952) and it said that you should expose a baby's arms, legs and face to sun for about 15 minutes per day. In winter they said to do it through a window so the baby didn't chill.

• Schools ban 'boobies' cancer bracelet

  Fri Oct 15, 2010
  • I've heard of "retro", but Victorian era social norms now? Let's see..."unmentionables" (underwear), "in a family way" or "expecting" (pregnant), "that 'nasty' disease" (STD's)...now what shall we call breast cancer?? Sheesh people!!

• Schools ban 'boobies' cancer bracelet

  Fri Oct 15, 2010
  • Good idea, Night Hawk. I think bringing awareness and donating to any form of cancer is great. It's a terrible disease no matter what part of your body it strikes (my aunt died of pancreatic cancer a few years ago).

• Schools ban 'boobies' cancer bracelet

  Fri Oct 15, 2010
  • I think the "adults" (and I use that term loosely) really need to get over it. I am a 58 year old breast cancer survivor. Last year at this time I was having my first chemo session. My last one was February 2nd and I'm slowly but surely recovering from the operations, radiation and chemo.

• It's getting hot in here: Burning Mouth Syndrome baffles doctors

  Mon Aug 23, 2010
  • I had a similar problem during chemo for breast cancer.  I wonder if it could be an allergic reaction to something.  Even though I had meds for allergic reaction, my tongue, mouth and throat would swell a bit and my whole tongue felt like I'd burned it pretty good with hot food or drink, …

• Adventures in Cancerland, Part 1: The diagnosis

  Wed Jun 24, 2009
  • Sucess, Mike! I was diagnosed with breast cancer in April. I've gone through the breast-saving surgeries and so far, so good, although this whole lymph node thing is pretty sore. Now I'm in the healing phase before radiation therapy and then chemo.