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1. IV bag shortage
2. The flu is in 46 of the 50 states.
3. Some places are setting up emergency tents.
4. hurricane in Puerto Rico

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THE FLU
1. worst stage in 8 years
2. every state but Hawaii
3. hand washing, dont use a towel
4. gargling green tea

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1. 46 states have the flu
2. H3N2 is the worst strain
3. the cases are very rare
4. The flu shot is 30% effective

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national without a scalpel day
1. MIIP minimally invasive image-guided procedures
2. charles daughter changed everything
3. she showed he to put die into  the blood to see a blocked artery
4. the patient was going to lose her leg

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1-17-18
FLU PREVENTION
1. they have to change what they wear
2. 200 patients
3.respatory problemy are 15%

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1-18-18
glaucoma awareness
1. leading cause of blindness
2. it builds up pressure
3. you cant feel the pressure
4.  the vision cant be regained

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1-22-18
TIDE PODS
1. teens are eating
2. 40 cases with teens
3. more than 10,000 cases
3. 10 deaths

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Parkinsons disease
1. he is retiring
2. he was diagnosed about a month ago
3. 1 million live with it
4. everything differs

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Almost eight years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's and Breast Cancer in the same week. Obviously, it was a week when I wished I had just stayed in bed and hid under the covers. How do you react to the news that you have not one, but two major health issues that will be with you the rest of your life?

Much of the next six months remains a blur to me. I underwent a lumpectomy and radiation for the breast cancer. A neurologist put me on ever increasing doses of Requip, and my estrogen patch was taken away from me. All of this meant that I slept all day, was plagued by hot flashes all night and pretty much walked around in a fog all of the time.

Somehow I was able to come to terms with having breast cancer immediately. My mother had it, my sister had it. It is the disease that most women fear most. And it is the disease that is talked about everywhere. October is Breast Cancer month and there are a lot of stores that celebrate by producing Pink Products, or should I say Pink Profits? It doesn't matter how useless the Pink Products are, we buy them anyway because it makes us feel like we are doing something positive. Celebrities talk with pride about recovering from breast cancer. There are rallies and walks to raise money. I even corralled my friends to walk with me as a team for the Revlon Breast Cancer Walk that first year. We wore our Pink boas with pride as we finished our 5K walk and entered the field at the Los Angeles Coliseum where the Olympics were held. We were Champions in Pink! Breast Cancer is fashionable.

But Parkinson's is another story. It was hard to come to terms with

that diagnosis. I wasn't that old (57), I wasn't a man, I didn't shuffle, and I didn't know anyone else with PD in my family or circle of friends. It was something my friend's parents had, but they were much older and didn't move very well. There were no Parkinson's products for sale in the department stores during Parkinson's Awareness Month. I didn't even know there was a Parkinson's Awareness month until this year. Parkinson's events were not well publicized. After all, who wants to go to an event where everyone is shaking, drooling and shuffling? Parkinson's is definitely not fashionable.

I was active, playing tennis, going to yoga, traveling and enjoying life as much as possible. I didn't have time for a chronic degenerative disease. I just had a tremor, so I tried to hide it. And I kept trying, but after a while, people started to notice. I thought that if I didn't say anything, it didn't exist. So I did what my friends and I call the "Parkie hand-hiding strategy". You know the one where you hold your shaking hand, sit on it, stick it into a pocket or purse, or do some other strange maneuvers just to prove that it isn't shaking.

But of course, that didn't work and I was only fooling myself. So why couldn't I admit it to myself? Why couldn't I tell others? It took a lot of therapy and writing my personal narrative for me to confront what I called the "Elephant in the room". Once I started to write my narrative*, which only my therapist was privileged to read, things started to change. I started to write about life with PD. But only for other Parkies. The rest of the world still didn't need to know. And then one day, I made a mistake. I posted something meant for my Twitchy Woman Facebook page on my public Facebook page. And the world didn't come to an end. Wow! I was outed. And it was okay.

So now I have embraced my PD. There is a wonderful world of people in the Parkinson's community that I have met. The time I spent last month in Portland at the World Parkinson Congress was an eye opener. I was able to meet some people who I have corresponded with through this blog. I talked to doctors, therapists and researchers who valued my opinion. I spent time with new friends and old friends, looking for answers and camaraderie. We have a common bond and we understand each other. And we don't all shake, drool or shuffle. In fact, we spent a lot of time working to dispel that image. We all have the Elephant in the room, reminding us that life is not the "normal" that it used to be. But that elephant is getting smaller and smaller, and one of these days, hopefully very soon, it will be banished from our lives.

*More on the importance of writing your narrative in a future post.

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Almost eight years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's and Breast Cancer in the same week. Obviously, it was a week when I wished I had just stayed in bed and hid under the covers. How do you react to the news that you have not one, but two major health issues that will be...

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Learn About Leprosy
1. 200,000 are dignosed every year
2. cause by a bactira
3. it is in the hands and feet
4. a cure has been cured before

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Cloned
1. first primates to be cloned
2. cloned dolly sheep in 1996
3. 20 different animals
4. this could help with Alzheimer