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Book Review: Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, edited by Adrian Shanker, foreword by Rachel L. Levine, MD, afterword by Kate Kendell
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez“Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health,” edited by Adrian Shanker, foreword by Rachel L. Levine, MD, afterword by Kate Kendell
c.2020, PM Press $20.00 / higher in Canada 208 pagesYou woke up this morning feeling pretty good.
That was quite a relief: in these frightening, uncertain times, every day of wellness is a bonus – especially when you consider that healthcare for a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer patient can be different than what straight people require. Too bad healthcare providers don’t always know that. But read “Bodies and Barriers,” edited by Adrian Shanker, and you’ll feel more empowered to tell them.
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The Savvy Senior: How Medicare is Covering Coronavirus
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
Is Medicare covering testing for the coronavirus? My husband and I are very nervous about this virus and would like to find out if or when we should get tested, and how Medicare manages it.
Nervous Nelly
Dear Nelly,
Yes! Medicare is indeed covering the cost of testing for the coronavirus, or COVID-19. But be aware that getting a test isn’t as simple as going to your local pharmacy or doctor’s office and asking for one. Here’s a breakdown of what Medicare is covering, along with how to get tested if you think you may have symptoms.
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Six Free eBooks/stories to Pass the Time
It can be challenging to stay (mostly) inside, so I’m offering six free eBooks and stories for anyone who wants them. Just CLICK HERE or on the image, pick your books from the Book Funnel bundle, and download away. Sweet, simple. – Mark -
Bruce Halford, Freelance Producer, Writer and Director, Joins the One Thing or Another Podcast
Listen in as I chat with Bruce Halford, Executive Producer and founder of Husky TV, about his life and career. Bruce is a freelance producer, writer and director specializing for the past 20+ years in fact-based television shows and documentaries, based in both New Jersey and Los Angeles. He remains involved in partnerships to create and pitch program concepts.
About Bruce Halford:
Bruce worked in local TV news in the 1990s as a News Director at the Fox-owned station on Dallas-Ft. Worth, and an Assistant News Director at KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
Before that he worked in Los Angeles producing and directing magazine-format TV series; he also produced, wrote and directed various freelance TV programs and segments, including an award-winning documentary for the 25th anniversary of the JFK assassination
Still earlier, Bruce was an on-air TV reporter in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Atlanta and Houston.
His first job in the business, while in college, was as an on-air reporter for CBS radio affiliate in Houston.
Bruce is in the final stages of wrangling his first e-book novel onto Amazon. Fasten your headphones!
Enjoy the One Thing or Another Podcast on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify iHeart Radio, SoundCloud and at OneThingOrAnotherPodast.com
Copyright MadeMarkPublishing
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My Guest Turn on the Gay Mystery Podcast Available Now for Listening!
What fun! My guest turn on Brad Shreve’s Gay Mystery Podcast is now available for listening. Fasten your headphones as we talk about writing, books, gay mysteries, and, of course, me! CLICK TO LISTEN.
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Books for a Quarantine: Select Titles to Pass the Time
Following are a few suggestions in several categories to keep your mind occupied over the coming days and weeks. – Mark/Editor
By Terri Sclichenmeyer
The Bookworm SezHunker down.
That’s what you’ll be doing for the immediate future: trying to stay well or get well or just waiting. You’ve had enough TV and the pantry’s as clean as it’ll ever get, so maybe it’s time to find something to read. Why not try one of these great books…..
FICTION
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EVENTS: NADRC Webinar: What We Can Do to Support LGBT Adults Living with Dementia
The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) is holding a webinar on [Monday] April 13, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Dementia Care: What We Can Do to Support LGBT Adults Living with Dementia.”LGBT older adults may be at greater risk for dementia and yet many services are not designed with LGBT individuals in mind. The San Francisco LGBT Dementia Care Project is an innovative project with the goal of increasing access to dementia-capable care for the LGBT community. The webinar will highlight the importance and challenges of reaching a vital but invisible population and discuss ways individuals and organizations can be more attuned to the needs of LGBT constituents with dementia by adapting policy and programmatic changes.
The webinar is part of the NADRC web seminar series, sponsored by the Administration for Community Living. It is being hosted by the American Society on Aging (ASA).
For more information and to register, click here.
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COVID-19: What Older Adults Need to Know (CDC Video)
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Cathy’s Wealth of Health: Our Eyes Are a Window to Liver Health
By Cathy McNease, Herbalist
Traditional Chinese Medicine has given us a way to physically view how healthy or unhealthy is our liver via the eyes. So much information is provided to me as a practitioner by simply observing my patient’s eyes. The tongue is used in Chinese Medicine for diagnosis. The sides of the tongue tell you about liver health…pale=blood deficiency; red=heat; purple=stagnation. If your eyes are still in good condition, but you observe one of these colors on your tongue, start now to remedy the imbalance in your liver and protect your precious sense of vision. One of the beauties of tongue reading is that it empowers us to prevent diseases before they strike.Here are some of the most important messages seen in the eyes, followed by some simple remedies:
RED EYES show heat, inflammation, or irritation.
DRY EYES show lack of body fluids, deficiency of blood or too much heat.
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LGBTSr Podcast Pick: Gay Mystery Podcast with Host Brad Shreve
LGBTSr Podcast Pick offers suggestions for podcast fans. Fasten your headphones!
It’s no mystery that I write gay mysteries! I was recently interviewed on the Gay Mystery Podcast with host Brad Shreve, author of A Body in a Bathhouse as well as an intrepid podcaster. On this show you can hear interviews with many of the top LGBT mystery authors (Michael Nava, RE Bradshaw, C.S. Poe, Marshall Thornton and many more), some who’ve been around for decades, and some who are newer to the mystery game. You’ll always be intrigued listening to Brad chat with authors whose passion is murder. You’ll also enjoy Justen Adamec’s weekly LGBT mystery reviews.
About Gay Mystery Podcast
Gay Mystery Podcast offers interviews by Brad Shreve with renowned authors, and up and coming talent, of LGBTQ mystery, suspense and thriller novels. Plus Justene gives her weekly book recommendations.
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One Thing or Another: Panic in Aisle 9
By Mark McNease
It’s always One Thing or Another… a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.
This one’s for posterity, since the terms ‘coronavirus’ and ‘covid-19’ will hopefully be behind us in a few months.
Who needs that much toilet paper, seriously? I can understand a couple of 12-packs, but an entire shopping cart? Are these people planning on being housebound for the next month? And what do they expect the rest of us to do—the ones who don’t think filling our garage with paper products is the best use of resources at a time of national crisis?
I’m not one to take a pandemic lightly. Not only am I at the age most ripe for paying the steep price of negligence, but I care about my friends, neighbors and co-workers. A good Corona beer joke seemed acceptable a couple of weeks ago, now, not at all. I’ve always been one to admit what I don’t know, and I don’t know, as most of us do not, how this will play out. Will we see a surge in people running to the emergency rooms, overwhelming our healthcare infrastructure and exhausting our healthcare workers? Will fatalities begin to pile up, expanding exponentially as this novel virus spreads like a silent, gaseous killer among the population?
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The Savvy Senior: How to Prevent the Silent Epidemic of Kidney Disease
Dear Savvy Senior,
Do kidney problems run in families? My mother died from kidney failure 10 years ago at age 74 but didn’t know she had a kidney problem until it was too late.
Just Turned 60
Dear 60,
Anyone who has a family history of kidney disease, or who has high blood pressure or diabetes is at increased risk and needs to have their kidneys tested.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, around 37 million U.S adults have chronic kidney disease (when the kidneys can’t properly do their job of cleaning toxins and wastes from the blood), and millions more are at risk of developing it, yet most people don’t realize it. That’s because kidney disease develops very slowly over many years before any symptoms arise. But left untreated, the disease can eventually require people to spend hours hooked up to a dialysis machine or get a kidney transplant. Even mild kidney problems can double a person’s risk of heart attack and stroke, as well as cause anemia and bone disease.