MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bravery'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:33:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893830&cid=t_303650_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fin-a-car-park%2F I was making my way home from an evening with a friend in a local town. It was about 10.30, and the sky was that lovely tawny blue of almost-dark. I’d parked the car in a busy car park, but by the time I returned there were only three cars still parked: mine, at the far end away from the road, and two closer to the road. One of the other cars that remained had half a dozen young men, probably in their early twenties, standing around it, laughing and talking. And as I crossed the car park, they started to shout at me. They shouted insults. Specifically, insults about my coat. I think it’s a nice coat. (Obviously, or I wouldn’t have bought it.) It’s a Jasper Conran mac that I bought earlier in the year, so it’s not outmoded, or strange. Granted, it’s servi... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893830 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:45:33 +0100 4893830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4077541&cid=t_303650_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fwedding-bells%2F It’s seven years today since Alan and I got married. (Everything I said this time last year remains true.) When we did, we had no idea that cancer was winging our way. I don’t believe that knowing would have changed a thing: we promised, seven years ago, to “love you and look after you, for all our time together,” and we have. Being married to Alan has been, is, will keep on being, wonderful, with or without cancer. Maybe that’s why the story of Kayleigh Brannan, a 21 year old with terminal cancer, has touched me so much. Kayleigh’s fiance Dan Lowe proposed to her shortly after her first operation to attempt to remove a brain tumour. They had planned to marry in June next year, but a recurrence of the cancer means that Kayleigh may not see June. So the ... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4077541 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:42:15 +0100 4077541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3787103&cid=t_303650_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fchronology.html Reading the lyrics of "Wonder" by Natalie Merchant the other day brought me back.  Made me think some things over.  I had to scan a few photos in for another post, photos from my childhood album.  This is my favorite picture in that album.  Whenever I start thinking I might be making some headway in this photography hobby of mine, I look back and I am reminded that I have a long way to go to match my dad's black and white film and Canon A1 with it's old kit lens...a photojournalists camera, his first major purchase as a high school student.I remember fainting and nearly dying at a friend's wedding when I was in high school.  I remember them thinking I was pregnant and hemorrhaging or something, and how I said a thousand times through gritted teeth that was impossib... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3787103 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:34:00 +0100 3787103 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3691064&cid=t_303650_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fdark-path.html But that was a long time and no matter how I tryThe years just flow by like a broken down dam.There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzingAnd I ain't done nothing since I woke up today.How can a person go to work in the morningAnd come home in the evening and have nothing to say.Just give me one thing that I can hold on toTo believe in this living is just a hard way to go~John Prine~Searching.  I am sure I have questions answered, so positive I practically skip instead of walking.  And then, in the darkness of a new time of testing, I turn my ankle in the same holes.  One minute, I have the clearest sight and surest perspective, as a worshiping woman confident in her faith.  The next, I am blinded by my ignorance and my tears as I struggle with the weight o... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3691064 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:49:00 +0100 3691064 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3526921&cid=t_303650_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fmid-night-journal.html Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ~ Philippians 4:6This verse is an oldie, but goody (my brother Daniel used to say that as a small boy, and it still tickles me deep within to say it). Tonight I am up as the first pink glaze of sun appears in the pines out my bedroom window, heralding the end of night and beginning of another morn...up all night trying hard to put actions to this verse. It has been a night of prayer, a night of reading, a night of closing my eyes in near delirium and still the prayers flow and the sleep does not come.How many times had patients sat there waiting for her to announce her decision after a similar moment of respite? Invariably the decision was based on science and s... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3526921 Mon, 03 May 2010 08:58:00 +0100 3526921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003990&cid=t_303650_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fwayback-wednesday-what-makes-you-think-im-brave.html Courage and diabetes. This seemed an excellent topic to revisit on the second-to-last Wednesday of Diabetes Awareness Month. (Not to mention that I saw Wicked over the weekend with my oldest daughter ) Other than that I believe this post, from early 2007, needs no special intro: What Makes You Think I’m Brave? It’s happened many times [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003990 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:15 +0100 3003990