living well and dying with dignity
Greetings Further Shore Friends, I hope everyone is finding ways to enjoy the winter season and there has been some time for inner contemplation and dreaming into this new year, 2024. In keeping with my appreciation of seasonal timings, today’s newsletter is dedicated to Imbolc, the cross-quarter point between the winter solstice and the vernal … Read more
The pandemic is not “over” for people with Long Covid (LC). We are still concerned about catching a cold. We are the people wearing masks in public and asking our dear ones if they will kindly take a PCR test before we spend time together because the antigen home tests are often falsely negative. We … Read more
In November of 2019, I caught a cold. In truth, that cold came from a virus. I know that now, but this happened before there was any talk about SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19. I became symptomatic in November after an up-close conversation with a friend who had a cold (sounded stuffy, was coughing). … Read more
A friend recently told me that Chris Cuomo of News Nation has begun a series about Long Covid (LC). There are several five-minute segments that began in October. In each segment, Chris interviews specialists like Dr. William Li, medical director of the Angiogenesis Center and Dr. Purvi Parikh, an immunologist and spokesperson from the Allergy … Read more
I debated a long while about the “W” topic for the ABC’s of Living Well. My dilemma: Walking or Wisdom? Walking is something that most of us do without even thinking about it. Of course, that is unless (or until) there is pain, an injury, or some other biological limitation to walking. Medical literature praises … Read more