40 Days of Thankfulness: Day Seventeen
// Today I am thankful for my dog, Mimi. She’s a beautiful dog, sweet, loving and usually very mild-mannered, but she’ll bark her head off whenever she hears someone in the driveway. Tonight, she...
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This is going to sound really stupid but today I am thankful for my dropbox. I have files all over the place and I work on them on different computers (PC and Mac), or my iPhone, iPad and other...
View Article40 Days of Thankfulness: Day Nineteen
Today I’m thankful for my maternal grandmother. I was thinking of her last night when we were watching an old episode of This Old House and they were remarking about how Boston used to be a lot of...
View Article40 Days of Thankfulness: Day Twenty
Today is a very special day for me. I am thankful to so many, named and unnamed. This is the 23rd anniversary of my pituitary surgery at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. I couldn’t have gotten to...
View Article40 Days of Thankfulness: Day Twenty One
Today, I’m thankful that I got to see a friend I haven’t seen for a while and we got to play several piano duets. Neither of us was quite as rusty as we thought we’d be.
View Article40 Days of Thankfulness: Days Twenty-Two to Thirty
I haven’t been too great on keeping this list up online but I have been keeping up on my computer so there will be a few catchup posts like this one. Day 22 (November 5): Jack Canfield’s book Chicken...
View Article40 Days of Thankfulness: Days Thirty-One to Thirty-Five
Day 31, November 14: Dr. Roberto Salvatori and Johns Hopkins. I found Dr Salvatori to be wonderfully kind, interested and knowledgeable. He listened thoughtfully to my complaints and never suggested...
View ArticleDay Fifteen, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge
Because it’s a Sunday again, this is a semi-religious post… After I was finished with the Cushing’s long diagnostic process, surgery and several post-op visits to NIH, I was asked to give the...
View ArticleDo You Use Groupon?
Matching Donations at Groupon Help Keep Cushings Help Going! From my email - The world’s most popular (and largest) daily deals site is now at iGive. Groupon’s great deals will mean donations for...
View ArticleCushing’s Help is 14 Today!
Who’d have believed it? Today, July 21, 2014 is our 14th birthday! It’s unbelievable but the idea for Cushing’s Help and Support arrived 14 years ago last night. I was talking with my dear friend...
View ArticleThanks to Those Who Have Bought Bravelets!
I was very surprised this week to get a check from Bravelets – I only wish I knew who to thank for supporting Cushing’s Help in this way. They’re running a sale today. Only a few hours left to get 10%...
View ArticleDay Nineteen, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
Because it’s a Sunday again, this is a semi-religious post… After I was finished with the Cushing’s long diagnostic process, surgery and several post-op visits to NIH, I was asked to give the...
View ArticleDay Twenty-five, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2015
I carry a print out of this everywhere I go because I find it very soothing. This print out is in a plastic page saver. On the other side there is a Psalm 116, part of the post from Day Nineteen....
View ArticleCushing’s Help is 15 Today!
It’s unbelievable but the idea for Cushing’s Help and Support arrived 15 years ago last night. I was talking with my dear friend Alice, who ran a wonderful menopause site called Power Surge,...
View ArticleBirthday of the Message Boards
September 30, 2000 – Birth of the Message Boards Today is the birthday, or anniversary, of the boards starting September 30, 2000 (The rest of the site started earlier that year in July) As of today,...
View ArticleDay 22, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2016
This is a tough one. Sometimes I’m in “why me” mode. Why Cushing’s? Why cancer? Unfortunately, there’s not a thing I can do about either. Cushing’s, who knows the risk factors? For kidney cancer...
View Article16 Years Old!
It’s unbelievable but the idea for Cushing’s Help and Support arrived 16 years ago last night. That’s a long time for anything online. I was talking with my dear friend Alice, who ran a wonderful...
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