Tag: Symptoms

  • Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s is considered an attack on the hippocampus in the brain, thus the neurons that make new memories and retrieve old one become entangled resulting in impairment in memory, cognition, and behaviour characteristics. It can lead to dementia and death, and is prevalent in the elderly from age 60 and beyond, but more so in…

  • Weightloss

    Namaste Apparently turning a new leaf on the calendar is the only change some of us made. I was ready for bed when the phone rang. I looked at the phone and sighed. A call came from that number at 1:05pm, 1:06pm (because I hung up within seconds of the first call, which I did…

  • Lights

    Namaste I had the privilege of seeing a Therapist receive therapy and was humbly reminded that we are all a work in progress and that this life is about interdependence, not independence. We need each other. This gentleman has been treating people for years quite effectively. Now he stood ready to face his own reality:…

  • Massaging HIV/AIDS Clients

    Namaste When I think of HIV/AIDS red ribbons and African faces flashing across the television screen come to mind.    Words like retroviral, cocktails, discrimination, safe sex, latex condom, get tested, etc. are some of the words I recall, never is the word ‘friend’ associated with the disease.  Yet I have had a few friends who…

  • Spondylosis Encounter

    Namaste I finally checked the meaning of the word. Spondylosis. I had two clients in five day who told me that their Doctor suggested that that was their condition. Does anyone know why it is that Doctors are allowed to speak Greek and Latin to the English-speaking population? The Bureau of Standards dictates that importers…