Have you ever woken up with an electrical shock flashing white lightening through the center of your brain? I would love to say I can’t relate but I can and did at 5 AM  this morning. It shook me for the whole day. So, I googled “Brain Zap.” Apparently, in an unofficial search of the [...]

Tonight, my mind wafts out of the Claritin D haze back to earlier tonight to a raging sinus headache that laid me up and forced me to come to terms with my late thirty-something development of allergy symptoms that crop up at least once every spring and fall. I avoided admitting that fact today until [...]

My friend and I make quite the dining pair. When we meet for a mom’s lunch out, she has to watch for gluten and I am watching my carbs. Unfortunately, her celiac disease has much more serious consequences than if I sneak a roll. Celiac disease is a genetic disorder that leads to intestinal damage [...]

When I first started working for a doctor, I was as naive as they come. I didn’t know why the newly graduated physician was stressing about not being board certified. I assured him that many people go to specialists because they referred from the hospital or their main doctor and to not be concerned. It [...]