This morning I was all set to go to the gym, I wanted to try running for 30 minutes straight (a big deal for me) and then do 15 minutes on the bike. I’m training for the Ramblin’ Rose Triathlon in Raleigh this May so I figured I’d see what my baseline is (I already […]

How interesting, last night I received an email from a man who bought my book, Treat Yourself to Pain Free Living from a place called www.buy.com.  He paid $32 so he figured he had saved money, but they said they were out of stock so he asked me to send him the book.  I don’t sell my

I’m starting to think that I need to do something about this fake book sale problem, but I don’t know what to do.  A man just called me and said he was going to buy my book from Amazon until he saw that it cost a lot less on my website.  The problem is, unless

What an interesting day!  I started off with a car accident that could have been a lot more serious if I hadn’t been hit by a car as lightweight as a PT Cruiser. I was stopped and preparing to make a left turn and a car came up behind me. The driver was blinded by

When I went to school back in 1988, we were taught that repetitive movements caused  a build-up of lactic acid, and that the lactic acid would then cause the muscles to go into a spasm.  It was explained that when we did our massage therapy we were forcing out excess lactic acid, bringing blood into

I had to rent a car to drive from Chapel Hill, NC to New York yesterday.  The only car available was a Chevy Cobalt and there were two problems: the seat didn’t go far enough back for the length of my legs, and there wasn’t cruise control so I was constantly pushing on the gas

My granddaughter wasn’t feeling well so she was lying on the sofa and she was complaining of a headache.  When I looked at her I saw that the pillows were positioned in a way that brought her chin down toward her chest (contracting a muscle called the scalenes, and putting pressure on a bundle of

Hope you had a wonderful day.  If you’re like me, you ate too much….but it was soooo good that it was worth it! The weather is gloomy here in NY, but I’m going out fast-walking anyway.  If you are also going to try to run off some of the food you ate yesterday, please be

My grandson Martin is an excellent soccer player. Yesterday he mentioned that his calves hurt so I took a look and his right calf felt like stone, it was amazing that he hadn’t torn his Achilles tendon! Your calf muscles originate at the back of your knee and then merge into your Achilles tendon. The

I’m having an interesting experience right now, not one I would have chosen but if you get handed lemons, make lemonade. On Tuesday I broke my left ankle, in fact both ankle bones were broken so my foot just fell out of the joint. Weird feeling!  UNC Orthopedics is wonderful, I met some excellent Nurse