feeding the soul: Breast Cancer – a journey of the mind and the body
By Debbie Abide Being diagnosed with breast cancer is not like being told you have a virus or an infection. It’s something you have to wrap your mind around...like it or not. Since losing our youngest son almost four years ago, my husband and I found that we had strength that we could never have imagined. We had shared with each other then that if we could live through that experience, Read more »
Echoes: What Cancer Can Teach Us
By Lana Turnbull As we did research for the articles about breast cancer that are included in this issue, and we talked to numerous caregivers, healthcare professionals and survivors, our goal was to delve into what it means to face the disease. We also wanted to provide reliable information and resources to help patients and their loved ones, as they work their way through diagnosis and treatment. What we discovered is Read more »
Echoes
Bullying... and the Power of Empathy By Lana Turnbull Whether we grew up in the forties, sixties, eighties, early 2000s, or anytime before or between, there is one unfortunate truth that applies to any decade…the presence of bullying. We might have been the bully, the one who was bullied or an uninvolved bystander, but it’s safe to say none of us navigated the mine-filled course from childhood to adulthood without some exposure Read more »
Echoes: Gone Fishin’
By Lana Turnbull When I was a little girl growing up in the Delta, I constantly rotated between being the “little lady” my parents were trying their best to raise and the “tomboy” that did the fun things like climbing trees and my personal favorite…fishing. Even now, in the late spring when the sun is warm and the breeze is soft, there are days that just feel perfect for a trip Read more »November 19th 2018
JACKSON, Miss – For patients at Batson Children’s Hospital with conditions like scoliosis (curvature of the spine) that require frequent read more »
Ask Dr. Germ…About Reusable Grocery Bags Posted Mon 11/21/2016 6:33PMIn an effort to live a more sustainable and less wasteful existence, many of us have rejected infamous plastic shopping read more »
Break Out of the Smoking Habit Posted Mon 11/21/2016 6:29PMJoin the Great American Smokeout this November 17. Every year, on the third Thursday of November, the American Cancer Society’s read more »
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