For too long, people have ignored Gen Xers. They love to reference the Baby Boomers, and then skip over to Millennials and Gen Z. Well, what about us? The Baby Boomers get a lot of hate these days, deservedly so. But we have to remember that the Boomers fought for everything that they got. They were the hippies of the 60s and 70s practicing free love, making it OK to smoke pot in festivals, and fighting for women to work outside the home and have their own checking accounts i

MRI “claustrophobia” does not necessarily require pills In a previous post, I talked about how I think MRIs make me very, very anxious. It has gotten to the point that I take an Ativan an hour before it so that I will chillax and just go to sleep. I find it very anxiety-producing because there are such high stakes to what the MRI test will reveal. Are the drugs working to stop the progression of the illness? Are there new lesions on my spine or brain that did not exist before