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OK, I know you expect reading and writing when you stop by, but I hope you’ll forgive a bit of a deviation for my own personal public service announcement. My mother gave me a hometown update this week--one of those “Guess who died?” bulletins. Usually this involves one of my parents’ friends whom I barely remember, but this time it was different. This week it was a girl I rode the school bus with--granted, that was a long time ago, but we rode the bus together for almost a decade, were in Girl Scouts together, basketball, church… It was a small town, and our lives didn’t diverge that much until high school.
Now, any death would sadden me, but this one also angers me. According to Mom, she had seven seizures in one day before ultimately dying in her sleep that evening. I have seizures, so I know that someone who has seven seizures should definitely think about heading for the hospital. But she didn’t.
Are you immortal? No? Neither am I. But in some ways I act the same way this old schoolmate did. Years ago, I ignored a lump in my breast until my husband hovered over me as I called the doctor. Thankfully, it turned out to be nothing. But what if it hadn’t? We wish problems would just go away, but they don’t. Usually they get worse.
The next time you get the urge just to not deal with a medical problem, remember my old friend. She went to bed thinking everything would be better when she woke up the next morning. It wasn’t.
We have to take responsibility for our own health. Here are two ways to start:
Info About Heart Disease --#1 Cause of Death in Women
Free Breast Self-Exam Card
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Jodi M. Webb |
| About the author: |
| Jodi has been leading the crazy life of a writer for over a decade--along the way she's had a 6 foot tall ostrich try to eat her camera bag, rode in a medieval cart built by high school students, and held a super-sized gold chain recovered from a shipwreck. Unfortunately the gold chain wouldn't fit in her camera bag or she'd be writing to you from a villa in Italy--not Pennsylvania. When not writing she spends her time reading mysteries and World War II histories and baking cookies.
She's also working on her first book, a mystery that reaches back into World War II for a motive. |
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