Posted on Wednesday,April,1,2009 by bamasteelmagnolia
How Dry I Am…
By Beverly Hicks Burch
In 1993 I finally got a name for the “thing” that had been making so sick and fatigued for years. Sometimes just having a name for your illness is a blessing…it serves to alleviate your fears that you might be crazy! Thankfully I was referred to a doctor who [...]
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Posted on Wednesday,October,22,2008 by bamasteelmagnolia
Anniversary – Part 1
By Beverly Hicks Burch
I am approaching an anniversary in a few days (Oct. 25th). It’s an anniversary I hope I don’t share with too many people. You see on Oct. 25th, 1995 a thoracic surgeon removed 60% of my left lung because of cancer. It’s so hard to believe it’s been [...]
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Posted on Friday,January,25,2008 by bamasteelmagnolia
Practicing Medicine
By Beverly Hicks Burch
So, what has Bev been up to? Well, as life would have it, a little of the same and a little of the new. It’s been a busy time, a hectic time and as kismet would have it a sickly time. Like I needed that like a hole in the [...]
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Posted on Wednesday,January,9,2008 by bamasteelmagnolia
Taste of a Marathon
By Beverly Hicks Burch
As if I didn’t already have enough to do I’ve taken on a new little project. Recently a friend told me about a website where writers gather. Consider it your smoky avant garde club of days gone by or the Left Bank or any other gathering spot where [...]
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Posted on Monday,January,7,2008 by bamasteelmagnolia
Bev’s New Year’s Beans
By Beverly Hicks Burch
Every year after Christmas I usually have a ham bone leftover. I like to leave a little meat on the bone so I can make a big ol’ pot of bean soup shortly after New Year’s. My favorite ham to use is one of the spiral-cut hams because [...]
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Posted on Tuesday,June,19,2007 by bamasteelmagnolia
Relay for Life
By Beverly Hicks Burch
It happened the first time when I was 28 years old and the mother of an eighteen month old tyke. I was told the absolutely impossible and unthinkable. I had a tumor on my right lung. How could that be? I had never smoked, wasn’t raised around smokers, therefore [...]
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Posted on Sunday,April,8,2007 by bamasteelmagnolia
If I was to ask you to name the number one cancer that kills women, what would you answer? Breast cancer? Ovarian cancer? If those were your answers, you guessed wrong. According to the American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org), although there may be a higher occurrence of breast cancer in women, lung cancer kills more women [...]
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