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1 week ago | 
aarp.org | Jackie Duda
Kyle Hilton Facebook Twitter LinkedIn My decade-long battle with my bones began when my primary care provider recommended getting a bone density scan in 2015, when I was 53. This was unusual, considering the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends the scan for women 65 and over.
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1 week ago | 
jackieduda.substack.com | Jackie Duda
It was 4am when I suddenly realized I was padding softly in my soft-soled moccasins through a familiar and eerily quiet hallway, dimly lit at this hour, only me and a lone building service worker pushing a trash cart. Long benches came into view, planted in front of floor to ceiling windows that illuminated the outside lights piercing the darkness of the wee hour.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Jackie Duda
When D60 played Bushwaller’s in May, the place was packed, heads bobbed in unison, and people sang along to favorites like “Good Riddance” and “Gangsta's Paradise.” The music poured out into the street and even enticed members of a bridal party across the way to wander over.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
thehealthy.com | Jackie Duda |Costco Connection
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires you act fast. You can’t just “sleep on it,” like I almost did, back when I didn’t even know what sepsis was. Today, I feel fortunate I’m here to tell about it. The Sepsis Alliance is a national patient advocacy organization that defines sepsis as “your body’s overactive and toxic response to an infection … [when] for reasons researchers don’t understand, sometimes the immune system stops fighting the ‘invaders,’ and begins to turn on itself.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
thehealthy.com | Jackie Duda |Costco Connection
A reporter learned that a medical pedicure can be next-level health care for some conditions—or for anyone who favors the ultimate hygiene. I swim every day and walk for miles. Lately, my feet have been showing and feeling signs of chlorine-exposed, pavement-pounding mistreatment: Splits, dryness, painful toenails and burning soles, all aggravated by the fact I have P.O.T.S. and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
capitalandmain.com | Jackie Duda
When Waupaca Foundry, a large iron works company with operations in several states, announced the closure of its plant in Etowah, Tennessee, in April 2022 and shed 86% of its workforce, Brad Moses was one of those who lost their jobs. An environmental, health and safety manager at the foundry, he had given 24 years of his life to the company, raising his family in the county. It was tough for the 52-year-old, who has a wife and seven kids.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Jackie Duda
“It’s like being in the ‘Happy Feet’ movie,” said wildlife and wedding photographer Kathleen Ricker of Monrovia, who returned from her fifth trip to Antarctica in December. Ricker has journeyed across all seven continents, with Antarctica being one of her favorite adventures. On her recent chilly expedition, she was intent on seeing the Emperor penguins, while also capturing photographs of environmental changes that have impacted the Antarctic peninsula since her first trip there in 2015.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
thehealthy.com | Jackie Duda
In an era when cold-plunging and our nostalgia for Diana Nyad are inspiring aquatics adventures, one journalist reveals how this ages-old exercise gave her new life. Eleven years had passed since I’d been to our local YMCA. I’d had to take a long break from fitness, from my career, from most everything that brought me joy due to complications from Crohn’s disease, Ehlers-Danlos (which affects the body’s connective tissues), and POTS syndrome.
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Sep 16, 2023 | 
msn.com | Jackie Duda
The terror began the morning of May 22, 2021, when the respiratory therapist inserted the ventilator tube down my throat. It was like swallowing a vacuum cleaner hose. Paralytic drugs were injected to keep me from instinctively yanking it out. I futilely tried to blink out an SOS and searched for my husband with my eyes. It felt like I was trapped behind soundproof glass. Disembodied voices murmured above me as I lay on an emergency room gurney.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Jackie Duda
Sepsis Alliance developed the mnemonic “Sepsis: It’s About TIME” to help people learn the most common signs and symptoms of sepsis: T = temperature, high or low, I = signs or symptoms of infection, M = mental decline and E = extremely ill (pain, discomfort or shortness of breath). September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and Sept. 13 is World Sepsis Day.
