Archive for July, 2011
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SEEKING MEDICAL HELP: AIDA MORRIS’S STORY
In 1991, at the age of thirty-eight and with a five-year-old daughter, Aida was diagnosed with breast cancer. ‘When my GP examined my breasts he told me to go home and forget about it – that it was just a hardening of the tissue – but to come back three weeks later. At the next appointment [...]
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LOOK FOR JOY—IT’S EVERYWHERE!
We can learn to look for laughter and joy in the many ordinary places where we go. When I go to our La Habra post office in the morning, the cement on the sidewalk outside is just plain blah gray. But if I go in the afternoon, when the sun hits it, the cement sparkles [...]
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WHY YOU CAN’T STAY AWAKE: OTHER TYPES OF DOES – SLEEP PARALYSIS
As we have seen, narcoleptics occasionally experience muscle paralysis associated with the onset or termination of sleep. The same problem can afflict nonnarcoleptic people as well. Patients lie unable to move any muscles, except those around the eyes. In some cases the victim suffers formication—the frightening sense that bugs are crawling over the body—or other [...]