About Escape the Disease Blog
I started this website because my fiction often references medical technology and future advances because I primarily write post-apocalyptic fiction. My first novel involved a planet-wide human threatening disease. Disease is ever present on planet Earth, yet us humans will always refuse to give up the fight for survival against all odds. My blog is dedicated to showing how that occurs.
A good start is taking a walk anywhere. This is a picture of a hike to Snow Lake in Washington State. If you go, plan to wait until late June or even later when the snow melts enough to get through.
A good start is taking a walk anywhere. This is a picture of a hike to Snow Lake in Washington State. If you go, plan to wait until late June or even later when the snow melts enough to get through.
Sheri Fresonke's bookshelf: health
by Brian Leyden
Brian Leyden shares a difficult time in his life when his mom's twin sister was diagnosed with bone cancer. Intertwined in this loving tale of a family that comes together from the Irish diaspora at the family home, are tales of growing ...
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memoir, history, health, and ireland
This is the University of Florida Guide to Understanding, Prevention and Dealing with addiction. Dr. Teitelbaum provides drug abuse statistics related to alcohol, marijuana, over-the-counter drugs, inhalants, meth, heroin and cocaine and...
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health
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So what is my experience with all these diseases?
My father had his first signs of heart disease before he was 40 years old. He was brought up o a farm, where intense labor meant a young man had an intense appetite. Butter, milk, fried foods, all those wonderful things we all love meant clogged arteries. Later, the doctors connected his heart disease to smoking, too. He quit and restarted many times. We were very lucky that medical science allowed him to remain in our lives until he was 80. His father died before he was 60. My other grandfather also died of a heart attack. At 30 years old, I began to have persistent pain. I'd always had difficult menstrual periods; soon after 30 years old I was diagnosed with endometriosis and eventually required surgical removal of my female organs. That meant no children which was hard for me to accept. Soon after, I had my first diagnosis of a pre-cancerous polyp. I've become very careful of what I eat and traded in my high stress lifestyle. So far, so good, but my grandfather and great uncle had colon cancer. My neighbor worried about heavy bleeding during menopause. When she finally went to the doctor it was too late. She died of preventable uterine cancer. My daughter suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, as did a friend's wife. We all have friends and family and we all sooner or later will die. But the hope is, more humans will have longer, healthier lives because many of our diseases can be prevented, cured or wiped out entirely through vaccination programs. When my husband and I went with my in-laws to see Victoria Falls, one local woman asked her, "Is that your son?" She replied, "Why yes he is?" "Ma'am, how old is he?" My mother-in-law said, "60 years old." My in-laws were in their eighties. The local woman shook her head, "You are so lucky, most around here are lucky to live until they are 40." Statistics prove her out. A primary cause is widespread AIDS. It's unimaginable that on one continent of our world, the people only live half as long as everyone else on Earth. This needs to be changed. |