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97A Survivor's Guide to Life After a Total Hip Replacement Surgery
This piece conveys the angst and curiosity faced by a woman beset with unusual physical pain. She learns later that she needs total hip replacement surgery.
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98Top 10 Reasons Why NOT to be Scared of Mice!
Phobia (noun): 'a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.' There was no one more chuffed than me when I got my first mice. I’d wanted them ever since I could...
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9310 Steps to Social Security Survivor Benefits
In America, when a working parent dies, his/her family is entitled to survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration. This is something I'd never thought much about -- until last month. My 17-year-old's father, my ex-husband, died in...
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96Dying: A Guide to Crossing Death's Doorstep
This hub offers a breath-by-breath-to-last-breath guide to help you recognize and participate in each stage of your loved one's last weeks, days, hours and minutes of life. Like fingerprints, each person's exit from this earth is unique and highly...
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92Childhood Sexual Abuse Causes Physical Brain Damage: An Alarming New Study
The hippocampus as shown in this Harvard Medical School diagram. The brain cannot process stress properly if it has been damaged. Photo courtesy of US Army. Repressed, eerie childhood secrets can only add to the survivor's sense of shame and...
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93Titanic Passengers who died: Survivors on the Titanic
Passengers who died,survived on ship Titanic when sank. Dead Goodwin, Rice, Speddon children. Survivors Titanic 1st, 2nd, 3rd class passengers.
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89Magdalene Laundries in Ireland and Across the Western World
The churches in Ireland confined approximately 30,000 women in prisons known as Magdalen Laundries. Both Catholic and Protestant Magdalen Laundries existed as a way for the church to control the lives of Irish women: their children were stolen, along with their lives.
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91How To Overcome Anorexia: A Survivor's Guide
It's a constant fear of relapse. Watching weight is bittersweet; lower numbers bring contentment and panic. How much is too much? If people are so worried, why do others tell me I look good? It's a lack of control over the mind, body image out of...
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86A Personal Experience With Thyroid Cancer
When I turned 36 years old in August 2002, I was in perfect health- or at least I thought I was. My energy level was high, I was working out regularly, I was at my lowest weight in 10 years and I was eating healthy. I had never broken a bone and had...
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89Life As We Knew It Book by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The moon is hit by a meteor knocking it closer to the earth. Nature goes crazy and food becomes scarce. Will humanity survive? Find out in Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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