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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technology

Daniel J. Wilson, PhD, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Question: What to do about a bursa?

In mid-August 2016, I bumped my right elbow on the bar of my wheelchair, and it hurt a lot for a few days. But it wasn’t till late September that I developed a bursa. The nurse practitioner at our doctor’s office drained it, but it filled back up. When I went there the following week she didn’t want to drain it again without sending me to an orthopedist.

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Studying Sexual Activity and Chronic Illness

Deshae E. Lott, Bossier City, Louisiana (2006)

The mysterious nature of the human body keeps us engaged scientifically as well as experientially. When our bodies veer from the known norms, it offers us more to explore, which can be both exciting and challenging. Sexuality rests among those fascinating and complicated aspects of human existence.

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