It happened two days after my son’s graduation from Vanderbilt, a joyful event in his life and in our midlife. We had helped him move out of his apartment, watched him say good-bye to great friends and to a college life he had loved. We made ourselves — available. I noticed that I didn’t have the …
Hot flashes won’t kill you, but heart disease will! Menopause marks a time for midlife women when bigger health issues start to show up like high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. There are many more diseases on the list, but these are the Big Four! So while you are figuring out how to manage …
The following is a personal post about Tamara Grand’s family’s experience with heart disease and as such, is rather long. Tamara debated editing more, but found it oddly therapeutic to write. Why every day is heart health month at my house. Read more from Tamara Grand on her blog, Fitnitchick. In my house, we don’t wait until February …
You have perhaps noticed that our calendars are getting crowded with disease-awareness months. October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, November was Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, December was for flu-shot awareness and January was for codependency awareness and here we are now in February, which is American Heart Month. (I am not making fun. These are …
Here on Midlife Boulevard we will be featuring content all this month about heart health, in recognition of February being American Heart Month. We start with contributor Kim Dalferes‘ story. In early 2013 she thought she was having a heart attack. Did you know that February is American Heart Month? A whole month, dedicated to …