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Tag: health

  • Arrivals & Departures

    When my father passed decades ago, it was a quick. He seemed relatively healthy and active, then just died on his way to work. Within two weeks his body was buried, and within two months all of his paperwork was closed out. His name was carved onto a headstone and deleted from all of the…

  • Who Not to Friend 

    These days my young daughters are navigating the turns and twists of friendships and I try to give them good advice and also demonstrate what it is to be a good friend.  There are pitfalls to finding good friends. My kids know to avoid bullies, but there are subtle indicators of false friends too. The…

  • Modern Mammals 

    In one of my recent notes, I mentioned some symptoms of the change of life I’ve been struggling through. If you’re a male reader, please don’t leave, fellows need to know about this too.  The first stages went by pretty fast. First, I was a girl minding her own business, then Aunt Flow showed up…

  • Taking Care

    One of the requirements of passing my insurance producers exam was learning about Medicare and Medicaid. It was a bit dry, but import because a significant portion, 20% and 21%, of our population is on one of them. Do we even know what the programs do?  In a nutshell they are both medical insurance, the…

  • Running the Numbers

    Through the activity of selling life insurance, I have been given a fascinating window into how people are doing. In order to qualify someone to buy insurance, I have to gather information about age, weight, prescriptions and debt-to-income ratio and plug it into my computer. The prices are then based on actuarial tables pulled from…

  • Happy Healthy Holidays

    How come it doesn’t seem like the holidays unless you’re in the Urgent Care waiting room for a family member? This last week, my youngest had a fever at the beginning of the week and so we brought her home until she seemed better then she went back to school. Then she got sick again,…

  • Shared Risk

    There has been a lot of talk about health insurance recently in the news. The whole point of insurance is to share some of the risk that we face in life. The idea is that if all the healthy people pay into one account, then if someone gets sick, that person can afford the care…

  • American Idol

    I watched an Oregon Duck football game the other weekend and was startled at how young all the players and cheerleaders looked. Every decade I age, but average age of the college athlete stays the same. They are all at the pinnacle of human physical condition. Like the Greeks and Romans, our culture is obsessed…

  • Stay’n Alive

    I took my kid to the pediatric cardiologist today. It was in the medical building complex up the hills of Portland where they have Dorenbacher’s, Shriners and Oregon Health Sciences University Hospitals—all the best medicine we have available to modern humans. The reason we went was to keep my youngest healthy. While she didn’t have…

  • Modern Medicine

    Yesterday was the second longest day of this year. I had to get up early to drive out to Tanasbourne early for my biennial Echo. It’s something I have to do to make sure all the tubes and pumps are working in my heart. The hospital is running on a skeleton crew since the pandemic.…