Tag: health

  • PATIENCE

    PATIENCE

    My cab broadsided another cab in an intersection, and my face slammed into the plexiglas divider, my nose broke, and my mouth was severely cut on the coin cup. When the ambulence arrived, the police told my cab driver to hold my purse and stand over there. When I was extracted from the cab, he…

  • THE BIG HOT POTATO: OPIOIDS

    THE BIG HOT POTATO: OPIOIDS

    I had oral surgery many years ago by an excellent crack squad army of professional surgeons.  The lead doctor, a first-generation American-born citizen, was very proud of his family of immigrants who moved to Raleigh many years ago.  Perhaps you have been in this situation: the point, before the surgery, when the doctor explains how…

  • BEAUTY, PERFECTION, SKIN, HIVES, ECZEMA

    Before we went to sleep one night, I warned my new then-boyfriend (now husband) that at some point in our relationship, I would have a massive allergic reaction to something I ate or was exposed to, and I was giving him fair warning just in case he wanted out of the relationship. He did the…