Taxes to do French Quarter Fest & a crawfish boil to attend Gorgeous weather today, but rain tomorrow Can’t forget papers to grade! Grocery shopping either No time to focus on cancer or figuring out how to write a haiku!
Author Archives: jbaldwinglenn
The ultrasound technician at the diagnostic imaging center was cold, as was the ultrasound room. I’m not saying the technician was physically cold, her personality was cold, almost to the point of rudeness when I walked into her domain. No small talk from her, only a very brief explanation of what was happening and what […]
I’m continuing to participate in WEGO’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. Today’s prompt is to toast our favorite social network. I have a thing for bridges. I don’t have many pictures of them, which is odd considering I like to photograph my favorite people and things, but maybe that is only because I am usually […]
Today’s WEGO Day 10 Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge is to post a favorite picture of myself. I’m posting a couple. They aren’t really my favorites. However, they do show my former cleavage. Yep, I always liked my breasts–not too big, not too small. And I liked having them both.
In the last decade, my husband broke his clavicle and had 2 different surgeries while his mother suffered and died from congestive heart failure. In the past five years, I tore my left ACL and was diagnosed with breast cancer, both requiring surgery. You can definitely say that we have a little experience with […]
Today’s WEGO HAWMC task was to compare your condition to an animal. Oddly enough, I was going to go with the zebra mussel. I spent all but 4 years of the first 41 in either Michigan or Chicago and grew up playing on the amazing lakes and waterways of the upper Midwest. The zebra mussel […]
Last year, writers involved in WEGO’s Health Activist Writers Month Challenge were prompted to write a letter to their younger selves. This year, we are asked to write a letter to our older selves or to our condition. Neither prompt is speaking to me, so here is a little free form. April 6, 2013 Dear […]
Day 7 of the WEGO Health Activist Writers Month Challenge asks writers to… Sensationalize! Say WHAT!? What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve heard about health or your condition? Where did you hear it and what did you think? Share a ludicrous headline or cure. Do a news search and choose a ridiculous headline or proposed […]
The fifth suggested topic of the WEGO Health Activist Writer Month Challenge is all about aspirations related to Health Activism: What’s your one, three, or five year plan for your Health Activism? or If I could do anything as a Health Activist… This is a tough one because I still feel like a newby, trying […]
This month I am participating in WEGO’s 30 Day Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. Day 4’s challenge was to create a resource ‘care post.’ JoAnn’s Top 10 Resources for the Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer 1. Seek your BC care at a hospital that is either highly respected or is affiliated with one that is […]
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