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Natural Perspectives: Battling skin cancer — and my HMO
I've been battling skin cancer for the past two months. More accurately, I've been battling my HMO to get my cancer removed. The good news is that surgery offered a complete cure for this type of cancer, and it is now gone. The bad news is that the...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Google Inc., Health, Dermatologists, Hospitals and Clinics
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'I feel like I'm worth something'
Jane was happy all the time. Newly married to her dream husband — handsome, hardworking and wonderful — she lived in her dream house in Cypress with her three children and was having success as a real estate agent. It was in this bubble that...Tags: Homes, Family, Real Estate, Real Estate Agents, Charity
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Planting flowers of memory
Every few days, Laura Edmondson leaves her home under the cover of darkness, packs her car with signs and painted wooden flowers, and goes to work planting them in the front yards of people she barely knows.
It's not a prank, though.
Edmondson,...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Brain, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Health
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Are you Matt's match?
Matt Myer smiled as he sat at his kitchen table in a purple T-shirt with hospital bracelets on his wrist.
Family friend Traci Coffman told him he was looking better today — more color, a little pink, a side effect of his medication, his mother...Tags: Family, Blood, Human Interest, Society, Charity
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On Theater: Tragedy delivered powerfully on Golden West stage
Classical theater needn't be tedious, as Golden West College reminds us each season. A thundering tragedy such as "Medea" or "Oedipus Rex" can project as much immediacy as the latest realistic drama, and both have done so in the past.
A fine case in...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Eric Davis, Crimes, Health and Medical Professionals, Health
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Greer's OC: Holiday sale at art gallery
Pierside Gallery is celebrating its new location at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach (near Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory) with a grand opening sale. Everything in the showroom is reduced through the holidays! It recently relocated from its longtime...Tags: Plastic Surgery, Cosmetic Procedures, Entertainment, Health, Christian Dior
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On Theater: An ambitious maiden voyage
A new Huntington Beach company, Party by Number Entertainment, has entered the musical theater arena with a vengeance — this term is applicable in that its main character takes grisly revenge on those who wronged his more subdued self. No fluffy...Tags: Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Music, Entertainment, Health and Medical Professionals
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City Lights: Physical therapy gets hot
I've gotten used to the concept of art as therapy. I have friends who have led poetry workshops in homeless and battered women's shelters, and I once attended a reading in England by a woman who had been abused as a child and passed out poetry pamphlets...Tags: Arts and Culture, Domestic Violence, Disasters and Accidents, Health, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California)
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Paying back his cousin's kindness
Family, friends and supports filled up the first two rows of the normally sparsely populated Fountain Valley City Council Chambers on Nov. 16 to watch a 12-year-old boy be honored for using his bar mitzvah project to rally the community around his cousin....Tags: Father's Day, Family, Health and Medical Professionals, Tourette Syndrome, Hospitals and Clinics
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Natural Perspectives: Protecting California's sea otters
Vic and I spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Monterey with our son Scott, his wife, Nicole, and their three little daughters, Allison, Lauren and Megan. I missed cooking our holiday dinner, but Thanksgiving is really more about family than food. We...Tags: Migration, Conservation, Water Pollution, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Health
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A party for the pooches
The Huntington Beach Youth Shelter will honor some of the most valuable social workers in town Sunday at its annual "Light a Light of Love" celebration.
Their human owners are invited, too.
The shelter, which offers temporary housing to runaway and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Disasters and Accidents, Entertainment, Dog (animal)
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Grateful for recovery
When Erik Arrincon finally felt normal again, there was no party, no celebration.
After he fractured his neck just over a year ago during a basketball game, no one knew if he would ever walk again, but the 16-year-old has almost completely recovered....Tags: Basketball, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Dining and Drinking, Sports
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