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The Patient as Damsel in Distress, I mean, Hero
Whether in the costume of our day or all dressed up, we love our fairy tales. We love them so much that we want to participate, and we are all the heroes of our own lives. But how do we insert ourselves into the medical story? A few become medical professionals. *** -Wake up! -What?…
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Race for the Cure
I’m running Race for the Cure, and I would like to officially bum money off of you, dear reader, if you haven’t already helped me out. My goal is $125, and I have $105 more to raise. I’ve decided that you should get something in the process. Everyone who donates any money will be featured in their…
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Grand Rounds
I do, in fact like medical blogs and read them. And this week I submitted to their carnival.  If you want to find a few more Heroes on the web, check out Grand Rounds 2:31.
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More about Jackie, the 627 lb Lady
I have been considering exactly how to respond to comments from my mom and Tonya (who is my sister). For the most part I agree with them, but I feel the need to clarify. I do not believe that Jackie got herself in the car. I’ve been around amateur filming enough to understand editing a…
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Testing the Physical Divide
Today I ran 3.35 miles in 31:53 minutes. This gives me an average pace of 9:35 a mile. I can actually do a 9 minute mile when I push a little. But today was the first time I’ve run a whole 5K. I’m training harder now because I decided to actually enter a race. Running a 5K race has two…
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Inspirations from Lance Armstrong and the 627lb Lady
I saw her on one of those ‘edutainment’ television broadcasts that are the modern equivalent to freak shows. Jackie weighed 627 pounds. This was about her struggle – I can’t rightly call it a battle – with obesity. The first question one usually has when viewing such an extreme on the human scale is, “How…
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Mutating fitness so it is contagious as well
So I’ve been thinking about my last post, and worried a bit that my comment about it appearing to me that many people can’t or won’t do what is necessary to be healthy might have bothered some. It may have sounded arrogant. Yes, I know. I don’t have a large audience right now, but I’m…
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Fitness as the newest, hippest chronic disease
It was all too easy for me. Last year, at this time, I weighed 200 lbs. Okay, I’ll admit that I was pregnant – very pregnant in fact, but I still had one month to go. My doctor had already told me he didn’t want to see me go over 200 lbs, but I knew…
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Fitness is a Lifestyle
“No, no sweetheart,†I said, breathing as hard as I was peddling. But of course, my seven month old son didn’t understand. When he got to the exercise bike, he reached up to get to a standing position near his mommy. I slowed down, and got off the bike for the third and final time.…
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Barbie Must Die
At the grocery store recently, I saw a picture of a woman that looked fit and fabulous. It was in an advertisement, and it was clear from a distance that the advertisement was about how to get that way. ‘Wow,’ I thought, ‘I bet that took a lot of good hard work.’ I mentally gave…