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If you have a chronic health condition, have you ever wondered where steroids came from?
I do and I did. I first began to understand the ubiquity of steroids while my father slowly went downhill due to emphysema. There was no remedy but there were two mitigating substances he took. One of them was prednisone. … Continue reading
Posted in Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life
Tagged anti-inflammatories, emphysema, google, Percy Lavon Julian, prednisone, steroids, uveitis
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I’ve been re-reading Russian lit and have been stunned by one universal theme
I didn’t say to myself one day, “I’m going to read my collection of Russian lit.” There was no such plan. Simply, I decided it was time to re-read Anna Karenina. I was uneasy about doing it, uneasy about the … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Anna Karenina, Bolshevism, Chechov, emphysema, Eugene Onegin, Henri Troyat, Jane Eyre, Lenin, Pushkin, Russian literature, Stalin, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights
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God’s Hammer, guerrilla warfare, Ukraine and the breath of life
When I was a little girl, 5 years old, my lungs asserted themselves inauspiciously. Starting with several months of pneumonia, they proceeded, as I grew up, into various bronchial uproars, and then asthma attacks. It was during an extended asthma … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting rights
Tagged bronchiectasis, Crimea, emphysema, glasnost, Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers, Odessa, perestroika, Putin, Soviet Union, the Maccabees, Ukraine
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