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Surgical Cents   How Can I Manage My Pain?    When you have surgery, you can expect to have some level of pain.  Depending on the kind of surgery, it might be mild or intense.   Whatever you [...]

What Should I Expect After A Knee Replacement?     Are you wondering what’s normal after knee replacement?  Am I doing well, should I be doing better, etc…………..   Let’s discuss [...]

Surgical Cents  Sleep Tips After Hip Replacement   Are you feeling like you might never have a good night’s sleep again????? Rest assured, you will — but it might take some time.  Here [...]

There are new studies indicating that Tamoxifen might be more beneficial in preventing breast cancer recurrence if taken for up to 10 years instead of 5 years.  One case of breast cancer can be [...]

Over the recent holidays, I had the time to check out a current movie in the theaters, “The Sessions”.  It is an excellent movie and resonated with the essence of my website, RecoverSex.com.  [...]

Stress and Sex There’s no doubt that surgery, medical conditions, and cancer cause stress.  There is obviously the physical stress of the illness, but also the mental stress of dealing with all [...]

November is moustache month.  It’s a guy thing.  Grow a moustache to support prostate cancer research.  Referred to as “Movember”, the movement started in the United States in 2007 after [...]

October 2012 rings in another year in the fight against breast cancer.  We have a lot to celebrate in regards to how much progress has been made to diagnose and treat the disease.  But until it’s [...]

In May and June, 2012, I had the opportunity to speak at national conferences about RecoverSex.com.  The first was at the annual meeting of the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON) [...]

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, so many emotional responses are triggered.  In many cultures, Western culture in particular, a woman’s breasts are a part of her femininity and [...]