Time to admit it: I am NOT Superwoman! Lord knows, I’ve desperately tried to keep up appearances, what with everything in my life I’ve been managing to juggle for quite a while now, but it’s finally time to come right out and say I simply can’t...
A great number of sitcoms lately have made light of this very serious question. Or maybe I’m just acutely aware of them now that my own medical well-being is on the line. A week ago on “Mike and Molly,” the entire plot revolved around how long it...
“There’s good news and there’s bad news…” So which would you ask for first? When confronted with that scenario in the cardiologist’s office, I went straight for the jugular. Give me the “bad news” first. And then I...
“So tell me again—” I asked the cardiologist. “Just how big is the myxoma?” The cardiologist began speaking as he waited for the information to come up on his computer screen. “Last week, when we did the regular Echocardiogram, we had...
