Shoot Me, Please

I wrote a few weeks ago about my grandmother. She has stomach cancer and is bleeding to death. Slowly. And she also has dementia that’s been exacerbated by the cancer.
Until last year, she lived for 86 healthy years. She was an amazing woman. I could not have asked for a better grandmother and role model. [...]

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Cancer-Free Baby

This is pretty cool. A girl born in the UK was born “cancer free.” She had been tested as an embryo for the genes that cause breast and ovarian cancer and is the first screened baby brought to term.
In Britain, parents can test for more than 60 conditions. Geneticists test embryos when they are [...]

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Who Has Body Issues?

Good news girls. He really doesn’t care. Guys don’t care about our physical imperfections. Only we do. This article makes us seem so superficial.
I just wonder how many of the women who obsess over body image inherited that from their moms. Or dads. I wonder if their spouses or boyfriends are critical, comparing them [...]

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