Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
I remember being young and seeing the face of a young girl who was an activist for HIV/AIDS on television. Her name was Hydeia Broadbent. I didn’t truly know what this was at the time, but I knew it was some type of condition. When I saw her face, she looked like me, a…
It is American Heart Month. One that is important for all to recognize, especially for women. In the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Having medical conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes put you at a greater risk of having heart disease. The symptoms women experience…
Each year there is at least one of us with a fitness goal on our list for the year. We all know how important it is to stay active and to stay healthy. The weather is now colder in most places in the U.S. During this time, we are indoors cooking and watching the…
As women, the responsibilities we have in this world can weigh on us. Our society tells us in the workforce, we are inferior to men. That being happily single is impossible. How long we have for maternity leave. Says it is wrong to want to be child free. And that our body size/skin type…
In recent years in my healthcare duties, I worked with younger patients with serious conditions. I had a patient with a stroke in their early 20’s. A person who at 20 was catatonic and required a peg tube. And a person in their late 40’s who went to urgent care with chest pains and…
The one-week countdown to Christmas is here. Most people will have a 3-day weekend off from work and children will be out from school for the week. This time of the year is about joy but sometimes as we are get closer to a break, stress increases in ways we didn’t ask for. So,…
When you know it’s October and you hear about wear pink, we all know it’s for Breast Cancer Awareness. This form of cancer affects women the most, but can affect men as well, so attention from both men and women is necessary. The biggest advice about early detection has been to schedule an annual…
What are you passionate about? Is it what you are currently pursuing or something else? Being passionate about something is not always the path one goes down career wise but there is opportunity for one to still work on it. It is now the fall season, and more time will be spent…
I remember when I was younger, I couldn’t wait until it was Friday, not because it was the end of the school week as I loved school, but because sometimes my mother bought takeout food home for dinner. I would ask for my favorites like Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or a family sized box…
It is Healthy Aging Awareness Month. As I reflect on human life in the last few years, from my personal point of view, I feel like many middle age and younger people are dealing with more health issues or succumbing to these medical conditions as compared to the older generations. The older generation were…