How I learned to hate the bomb

 My volunteer coordinator over at Washington Against Nuclear Weapons graciously published my essay on growing up in Nevada when the Test Site (and the area south of Fallon) were still doing "sub-critical tests."

It's here and worth a gander.

Hello Alzheimer's!

 Just in time for my 59th birthday, I get still more confirmation that my chronic fatigue and weird forgetfulness has a medical scientific basis. I hate being spayed.

Getting both ovaries removed comes at serious cognitive cost

 

I met more women online and in the waiting room of the cancer clinic in 2022 who were 25 to 35 years old, whose oncologists told them they needed a complete (or "radical") hysterectomy so their ovaries (and all the tissue near them) were no longer pumping out estrogen. 

I get it. Estrogen is bad, it makes cells grow, especially cancer cells. But is spaying a young woman really the answer? Do they do this to male patients? Oh, hell no.