Category Archives: Health
Beauty: a work in progress
My birthday fell due last week, and as all birthdays do, it fell, took place and passed. But this nonentity of a birthday, ostensibly a nothing year, arrived on an ill-wind, one that ruffled my middleageing feathers in most unexpected … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Friends, Health, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged beauty, Birthday, Brunswick Centre, Chantecaille, Erica Jong, fifty, forty-nine, Francesco Picardi, hair, hairdresser, happy, lipstick, Mac, make-up, mascara, Middleage, Pink Lady, Space.NK, Vespa
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Dial 007 for Urologist: the EAU Congress, Paris
Last week I had an overwhelming sense that my career path and health were inextricably linked, for I suffered my first UTI in over ten years. Not just ouch … super-double-and-treble ouch. I won’t bore you with the details, but … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Consultant Urologist, HCA Healthcare, Julian Shah, La Marine, NHS Supply Chain, Paris, Peezy, St Emilion
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Oestrogen: mid-life elixir
I am forty-eight and I am smiling. I have a spring in my step, a twinkle in my eye, focus in my day. I’m in control; I have a new drug of choice. If you’re a woman hurtling inexorably towards … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Health, London
Tagged gynaecologist, hormone levels, menopause, mid-life, middle age, mood swings, oestrogen, sexual health, Studd, Uncategorized
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