Author: Lance Garrison
Finding out that you have non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is often overwhelming. And so is telling others about your diagnosis.You may worry how others will react. You may not want your friends and family to worry or to treat you differently, says Jacob Sands, MD, lung cancer specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and spokesperson for the American Lung Association.But talking about it is important. Your friends and family can offer the support you need, such as a shoulder to lean on, a ride to the doctor’s office, or extra pair of hands at home.So how do you let people know?…
Jan. 10, 2024 – Uncontrolled ringing, buzzing, or whooshing in your ear can seriously interfere with your quality of life. Just ask Jeff Grace, who has tinnitus. “Tinnitus can be frightening, painful, irksome, isolating, stressful, overwhelming, depressing, distracting, and annoying,” said Grace, a 41-year-old California native who works as aa fitness trainer and coach. Grace, who’s had tinnitus for nearly 5 years, said the condition affects his general well-being and is mentally draining. “My ears are always filled with a high-pitched ringing noise that doesn’t seem to go away. It follows me around all day long, almost like a constant background hum. It…
To the Editor:Re “As Literacy Lags, Governor Proposes Changing the Way Reading Is Taught” (news article, Jan. 4):New York State’s shift back toward phonics-based literacy instruction is of utmost importance. The yearslong regression in literacy worsened by the pandemic has placed children from New York’s most vulnerable communities at an unprecedented academic and social disadvantage. We may not fully comprehend its repercussions for over a decade.Gov. Kathy Hochul’s initiative is a step in the right direction. Phonics plays a crucial role in developing reading skills by illustrating the correlation between letters and sounds.In our 22-year history, the Reading Team, which…
Mary Wyatt still remembers the things that would trigger her mom to raise her voice at her as a child.“My mother yelled at me for my behavior, grades, or even when she struggled with her own personal trials,” says Wyatt, a motivational coach and mother of two who lives in Chesterfield, VA.When Wyatt became a mother, she found herself repeating the pattern with her son. “Enduring this yelling technique growing up should have been more of a reason for me not to do it,” she says. By the time she had her second child, a girl, “it was evident a…
Until the morning of Oct. 7, the town of Sderot in southern Israel was a parable of hope and success. Less than a mile from the Gaza border, it emerged a few years after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war as a haven for Jewish refugees fleeing antisemitic persecution — from North Africa, Kurdish lands, Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union. I myself am a second-generation Israeli; my parents found refuge in Israel from Iran.Those people forged a city brimming with cultural richness, industrial vitality and a spirit of coexistence.The trials of those who built Sderot were indeed traumatic but did not…
This discord is a symptom of a deeper problem. The sociologist Dylan Riley, relying on a typology from Max Weber, has proposed thinking of Mr. Trump as a charismatic leader (deriving his authority from the force of his personality) whose model of governance is essentially patrimonial. In other words, Mr. Trump ran his White House more like a mafia boss (or a king) than a president, treating affairs of state as his personal affairs, as if he were managing his family — his patrimony.During his first term, that mode of rule proved utterly incapable of running a large, rational, bureaucratic…
My left eyebrow is normally higher than my right eyebrow. The difference is particularly pronounced when I raise them — it gives me a skeptical expression. And this wasn’t something I realized that I appreciated about myself until it was gone. I couldn’t access that look anymore. When I raised my eyebrows, the circumflex was the same on both sides.Technically speaking, this symmetry made me more attractive. In her 2019 tour de force about “Instagram Face,” Jia Tolentino, in The New Yorker, asked plastic surgeons about the “single, cyborgian” visage that seemed to dominate Hollywood and online influencer land. “It’s…
The Republican caucuses in Iowa are just five days away, marking the official start of the 2024 presidential election season. To kick-start Opinion Audio’s coverage, Patrick Healy, the deputy editor of Times Opinion, and the Opinion editor Katherine Miller get together to discuss their expectations for Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, where they think the G.O.P. is headed and Donald Trump’s continued dominance. Stay tuned for more on-the-ground analysis from “The Opinions” in the coming weeks.(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to…
The biggest challenge, she wrote, “is what I have called ‘the great misalignment’ between the institutions we have and those we need to deal with most of these problems.”The framers of the Constitution, she wrote:understood human frailties and passions. But they thought they had designed a set of institutions that could weather the storms. They also assumed a nation in which civic virtue had been instilled in people by families, schools or faith-based congregations. Over the coming year, those assumptions will be sorely tested.The difficulties of institutions in prevailing under such concerted duress is becoming increasingly apparent.Greg Conti, a political…
There’s a lot to think about when you find out that you have autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).When do you start treatment?Will your daily life change?How will it affect your kids?That last one can be really tough. But Jillian Warejko, MD, a pediatric kidney specialist at Yale Medicine, says it’s important for kids to learn what to expect.“There’s a lot of power in knowing your own health history,” Warejko says. “So we try to teach kids to empower themselves and advocate for themselves.”You should tailor your conversation based on your child’s developmental age. And you may want to space…