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Aging Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/aging/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:11:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/cindydeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cindydeboericon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Aging Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/aging/ 32 32 184530663 It’s Been Ten Years… So Why Am I (still) Alive? https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:11:32 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4367 On the day before Thanksgiving, 2013, in a closet-sized, moldy-smelling exam room, a University of Michigan pulmonologist confirmed my fear: the shortness of breath I’d been experiencing was due to a rare, progressive, degenerative, and often terminal lung disease, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). Paul and I sobbed the entire drive home from Ann Arbor. Not surprisingly, a […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2023/11/22/its-been-ten-years-so-why-am-i-still-alive/feed/ 10 4367 Leaky Breasts and Other Hot Messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:02 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4332 Recently, while at work at the psychiatric hospital, I caught a glimpse of myself in a patient’s bathroom mirror and noticed a large wet spot on my t-shirt just below my left breast. It was an odd location for a spill, but I chalked it up to my clumsiness and threw on a hoodie to […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/feed/ 2 4332 Same Kind of Wounds as Me https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=same-kind-of-wounds-as-me https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:07:13 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4302 I noticed her and those tell-tale marks on her face from far across the room. At the first break of our writer’s conference, I ran over to her, breathless with anticipation. “Hey, I don’t mean to be weird or anything, but I notice that you have nasal cannula indentations on your cheeks, and I know […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/feed/ 20 4302 Ode To A Lumpy Body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ode-to-a-lumpy-body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:33:30 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4290 Hairy legs and sun-burnt nose When at the beach, anything goes. Unbrushed teeth and happy-hour drinks This much I know: my breath stinks. Fish for dinner plus a fruity potion Diet be damned, I'm at the ocean. Sand in my bed, and in my salt-fried hair, Sir, what is the time? Wait. Why do I […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/feed/ 16 4290 Old Is The New Hot https://cindydeboer.com/2021/09/17/old-is-the-new-hot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-is-the-new-hot https://cindydeboer.com/2021/09/17/old-is-the-new-hot/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:37:43 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4214 In this culture where beauty, youth, and tight buttocks are valued more than oceanfront property and where ageism has moved from theory to fact, it is no wonder we fight aging with the tenacity of an NFL middle linebacker. Our culture tells us our best years are behind us once we hit 50 and we […]

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