When Charlotte Dahlenburg agreed to volunteer at Cruisin’ the Coast for the first time in 2015, she thought she was just doing her friend a favor. Longtime volunteer and site manager Ray Harper had asked her to help at the D’Iberville stamping site. When Dahlenburg arrived, she got a yellow staff shirt and a crash […]
When it comes to breast health, most experts now recommend breast self-awareness over routine self-breast exams. Unlike traditional exams that followed a set method and schedule, self-awareness focuses on simply knowing what is normal for your breasts — how they look and feel — so you can quickly notice changes. Research has shown that routine […]
By Michelle Garrett Parenting has its challenges, am I right? When I think about my own childhood, I can’t help but think about those Gen X memes reminiscing about how kids would roam free from dusk to dawn, stopping only to drink water from the hose in the neighbor’s yard, and come home at suppertime […]
MY HEALTH CHALLENGE It all began in September 2010 when I was 58 years old. I was taking a shower and discovered a small, hard lump in my right breast. I told my husband, and we agreed I needed to have a mammogram. I procrastinated for about two months before finally making the appointment. It […]
