By Don Smith, L.P.C., Grace Counseling Center LLC – What do our words communicate? There are times when I find myself using words that fail to express my intentions or thoughts. For example, suppose I was walking with my friend on a rough path in the woods and she trips on a tree root causing...
Jenny Samson Morgan was only 36 when she found a lump in her breast while doing a self-breast exam at her Mid-Missouri home. Even though her doctors reassured her that 90 percent of these type of lumps were non-cancerous, she couldn’t rest easy. Only a few years earlier her husband, James, found out that...
By Nancy Hoey – I received a text from my daughter while she was away visiting cousins in St. Louis. It read “Mom! Mrs. Doubtfire died today!” She had just learned that Robin Williams, the actor who played Mrs. Doubtfire in one of our favorite family films, had taken his own life. Recent...
Cosmetic Treatments for the Foot & Ankle by Dr. Jody P. McAleer, DPM Jefferson City Medical Group Sandals and summer go together. Tucked away during the cooler weather months, our feet are finally set free and we’re out of the confines of our closed toe shoes. Sometimes this can be a source...
The statistics are becoming too startling to ignore. The Skin Cancer Foundation has described the use of tanning beds as an “alarmingly widespread behavior” with 419,000 new skin cancer cases attributable to indoor tanning each year. Study after study is revealing the same harsh reality;...
