Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health
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I found the above article this morning on WebMD and feel it applies to my concern for women’s health matters. Please take the time to read it…especially if you are a survivor of divorce or someone in your family is!
This one personally hit home for me because I [...]

How Dry I Am…by Beverly Hicks Burch

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 [...]

Anniversary – Part 1, by Beverly Hicks Burch

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 [...]

Practicing Medicine, by Beverly Hicks Burch

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 [...]

Bats in My Belfry…or How the Home Inspection Went, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Bats in My Belfry…or How the Home Inspection Went
By Beverly Hicks Burch

Well, home inspection day came and went on Saturday. It’s a pretty standard procedure in the home buying process and if any of you are HGTV viewers, you have probably seen buyers go through the dreaded home inspection. Many wait with baited breath [...]

Women’s Health Part III: Frozen…Flight or Fright – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Panic & Anxiety Disorder, by Beverly Hicks Burch

In the week since the Virginia Tech tragedy, it seems our country has been caught in a cycle of insanity, with wackos, nuts and copycats coming out of the woodwork. As I was pondering the next installment of the “Women’s Health Series” and gathering some of the research on my subject, the news broke on [...]

Women’s Health Part II: It Takes Your Breath Away, by Beverly Hicks Burch

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 [...]

Women’s Health Part I: A Body of Unhealth, Autoimmune Disorders, by Beverly Hicks Burch

This year I would like to address some issues near and dear to me, and those are the issues of women’s health. Hopefully this will be the first in a series. While I will try and explain, I will try not to bog the reader down with too much technical info that will make [...]