Tag Archives: health

Afghan Adventures#31 Women’s health, women’s work, women’s place in the scheme of things ~ Mary Smith

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Mary Smith’s Place: Next day, I spent the morning in the women’s clinic with Zohra. I was embarrassed at finding it difficult to understand the women who fired questions at me, making me feel my command of the … Continue reading →

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Afghan Adventures ~ Mary Smith #13 #Babies

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from MarySmith’sPlace: Although Hussain didn’t encourage house visits he could never bring himself to refuse, even though experience was teaching him the messenger’s ‘emergency’ was probably nothing worse than an indigestion attack. But there was always the fear that … Continue reading →

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Special request

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Dear Universe, can I just say That everything now smells of hay, I’ve cut the lawn down, best I can, (And wished I could employ a man…) Cause, what with all the sun and rain, The green stuff had gone … Continue reading →

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Laughter really is the best medicine … Fransi Weinstein

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from 365 and Counting: I can’t tell you how many times I ‘ve heard that over the course of my life and I’m pretty sure you’ve probably heard it more than a few times, too. Laughing has never been … Continue reading →

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The vampires of summer…

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Spare a thought for the vampire in summer, For, while everyone else seeks the sun, He must hide in the darkness and shadow And from errant sunbeams must run. While the sunbathers tan to perfection. Going golden and brown as … Continue reading →

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Physio…

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“I will send you for X-rays,” the nice doctor said, “And for physio too while we wait. I’ll just make the appointment and get you booked in… Would you rather have early or late?” Which is why, as the dawn … Continue reading →

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Shades of (Soylent) Green…

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“I thought this was part of making you well,” said my son. “I’m not sure pumping you full of dye is healthy.” I’m none too sure either, but an ‘MRI scan with contrast’ was what the doc had ordered, so … Continue reading →

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Irony…

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Sue Vincent

If I say that I spent the day in a hot tub, does that conjure for you an image of decadence, pampering and relaxation? Do you think of lazing beneath the sunlit blue of a warm spring sky, champagne, perhaps, … Continue reading →

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Joy Lennick interviews author Sally Cronin

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Joy Lennick, talking to Sally Cronin: Thank you very much Joy for inviting me over for an interview… it is a great pleasure. Where you born and what was your first memory? I was born in Wickham, a … Continue reading →

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Guest author: D. G. Kaye – Aging and Changes: Maintaining the Privilege to Drive

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Sue Vincent

  On May 10th my husband turned eighty years old. God bless him, he’s made of Teflon because he’s bounced back from many ongoing ailments, many times. Turning eighty in Canada also means, by law, that it’s time to get re-tested … Continue reading →

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