I was listening to the radio the other day, and there was a plastic surgeon talking about liposuction.  He was talking to one of the men on the show, and told him that liposuction wouldn't work well for him even though he was 45 pounds overweight due to his body type. After listening for awhile, they explained the very simple thing that makes people look different at the same weight and height.  There are basically two types of body types: 1) those who store most of t...

This article is being written in support of my sister's best friend who is undergoing treatment for cancer.  Since I have intimate experience with hair loss due to auto-immune diseases, I figured that I could at least help her with the hair loss issue that she'll run into with chemo. Most people think that hair loss is the least of their worries, and it should be.  But, unfortunately, it becomes an outward sign of disease.  If you are like me, you don't want people to look at y...

I'm not really sure where to stick this, so health & medicine it is! OK, so people who know me know that's I'm a bit "off"...a bit Obsessive Compulsive (at least that's what the Dr. keeps telling me).  More Compulsive than Obsessive nowadays, as my "crazy pills" seem to be helping with the Obsessive part. Anyway, people who know me also know that I have a lot of holes in my ears.  At one point, I had 8 in my left and 5 or 6 in my right.  Up until yesterday, I was do...