Health
Paul Bodner, 66, was playing golf one day in March when he felt a pain in his hip. One month later, the Summerlin resident was diagnosed with lung cancer.
As a trainer, I like dumbbells because they teach people how to control their body. Performing a biceps curl isn’t just flexing the arm at the elbow with as much weight as you can handle. The core and upper back need to be in good position to properly isolate the biceps.
Seven years ago, Darlene Trotsky and her friend Barbara Harris were attending an MS Society function when Trotsky, a self-described “loudmouth Italian” asked why there were no MS support groups in the Centennial Hills area. The reason? No one had formed such a group.
As a hospice care nurse, Linda Janke has spent years witnessing the intense emotional and physical toll Alzheimer’s disease can take. Now Janke is witnessing the effects of Alzheimer’s closer to home
Alzheimer’s disease. Americans fear only cancer more. For those older than 65, it is the most feared diagnosis. The disease, which causes dramatic problems with memory, thinking and behavior, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
For Linda Gagnon, it was both a shock and no surprise at all. At the start of 2012, her 88-year-old mother, Martha Gagnon, was bright, alert and still dropping in on her weekly quilting group.