Category: Health
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Donate to Fight Pancreatic Cancer – Research Walk, June 8 in Brooklyn!
This is a photo of my mom and my aunt, just a few months before she passed away after battling pancreatic cancer in 2008. This coming Sunday, June 8th, my team is walking in the Lustgarten Foundation’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Brooklyn in an effort to raise the necessary research funding for this terrible…
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Graphic Design Wit: NY Health & Racquet Club Remembers 1973
New York Health & Racquet Club is celebrating its 40th birthday with a couple of new ads, reminding New Yorkers what it was like to live in 1973 Manhattan. And these ads are pretty delightful. h/t to Gothamist
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Today is World Cancer Day; What’s Your Story?
Today is World Cancer Day. The Lustgartsen Foundation, whose mission is to advance the scientific and medical research related to the diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of pancreatic cancer, asks that you share your story as to why you fight, today on Facebook. If we are close friends you may know that my family and…
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Urge Your Senators to Pass the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act
U.S. House Passes H.R. 733!! November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month but on September 19, the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act (formerly known as the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. But we still need the U.S. Senate to pass this bill before the end of the year…
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Paranormal State’s Ryan Buell Undergoing Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Following a post from Towleroad, I read this People article on Ryan Buell, the founder and lead team member of A&E’s Paranormal State, who is currently undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you’ll know how much this particular disease terrifies me and how much it has impacted my…
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Campfield Claims Breast Cancer Caused by Abortions
I was so sure Campfield had reached the peak of Mount Ignorance with his “Don’t Say Gay” vitriol and his dangerous and false claims against the gay community. The people at Knoxviews.com shared his latest, baseless and classless blog post in which he now suggests that abortions cause breast cancer. He’s certain of this because he read…
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An Open Letter to Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield from Michael Wiseman
A friend shared the following open letter on Facebook today and, considering how Campfield’s idiocy annoyed and terrified me yesterday (yes, terrified… ignorance is terrifying) I felt compelled to share his letter which you can read on Mr. Wiseman’s (aptly named) Facebook page here. Thank you Michael Wiseman! I was taken aback earlier today after…
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FitBit Love: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Note: This is my personal review/response to the FitBit and I am in no way connected to the company. I’ve been trying to measure my health (at least my body’s shape, weight, etc) for some time and found it so cumbersome to calculate what I’ve accomplished. I had tried manual systems on various websites and…
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Knee Joint Synovitis… so THAT’S what was wrong!
Well, the day to find out what was wrong has come and gone, with positive results, and some serious “ow” factor included. On Halloween, at 6am, I checked in to Roosevelt Hospital here in NYC and prepared for my knee arthroscopy. Fun right? At 7:30am I was administered anesthesia and by 7:31am I was completely…
Tommy Karr 