Published on Yahoo! Voices today as Dr. Maryellen Smith

New article today

As you may know, in another life, I write articles for Yahoo!  They are published either on Yahoo! Voices or Yahoo! Shine.  Today an article was published that I have been working on for a while.  I have experienced a dreaded EDITOR.  However, I do think it made the article better.  The article is entitled Uterine Fibroids and Fertility.  Here’s the URL:

http://voices.yahoo.com/uterine-fibroids-fertility-11105186.html?cat=5

New Articles on Yahoo

I have been writing again!  Here are a couple of new articles on Yahoo! Shine:

Second Trimester Normal Pregnancy Body Changes

http://shine.yahoo.com/second-trimester-normal-pregnancy-body-changes-184800894.html

What happens if you have fibroids and are pregnant?

http://shine.yahoo.com/happens-fibroids-pregnant-184800830.html

Note that I also updated the articles list to make it more readable, I hope.  If you have any suggestions for changes, let me know.  Also, if there are any medical topics you would like to have written, please let me know. 

New Yahoo! Voices Article

Published today

Heart disease in women is different than in men.  We don’t have that crushing chest pain – like an elephant sitting on your chest.  To find out what the symptoms are, check out my new article:

How to Recognize Heart Disease in Women

http://voices.yahoo.com/how-recognize-heart-disease-women-11007384.html?cat=5

published today on Yahoo! Voices.  That explains why I was clueless about that shortness of breath and fatigue.  It wasn’t a heart attack, but it is serious heart disease. 

We have it under control.  It fooled me for a while, though.

I hope you learn something.

Laser.

3/15/12 See comments for problems with the URL.  I'm working on it.  Laser.
Later same day.  Fixed.  When I back spaced to put the URL all on one line, the computer deleted a 1.  Fixed now.  Try it again. Thanks for pointing it out.

Blog Notes I

Just a few notes on my blog:

February was interesting.  I posted something I borrowed from a friend, who got it from Facebook, and my blog went viral!  I had been getting 40-60 visitors per day.  One day I had over 5000.  I started the blog in August, 2011.  I had about 8000 visitors until mid February.  Now I have over 30,000.  I hope some of those visitors liked what they read and continue to visit. 

I wrote a post about how many different countries visitors had come from on February 4.  There were then just over 40 countries.  Today we hit 80 countries.  If you don’t see your country’s name on the side, I missed it.  Put it in the comments and I will add it. 

I have learned a lot of geography.  Réunion (which only got the little accent because I copied it from Wikipedia) is the newest country that I added to my list.  I have had to look up a lot of countries to see where they are.  [As I was checking before posting, someone from Dominica came to visit.  Hello!]

I have finally found all of the articles on Yahoo! from Dr. Maryellen Smith.  It has been interesting.  Yahoo! has been redoing its site this month.  The last article is: Multiple Pregnancy – the Roller Coaster of Twins, Triplets or More:

http://shine.yahoo.com/multiple-pregnancy-roller-coaster-twins-triplets-more.html

I have to admit that the format of the page (see upper right) that has all the articles on it is a bit crazy.  I may have to copy it to word and redo the whole thing.   I will continue to add articles as I write them.

I am getting somewhat better technologically.  Not great yet.  I am still in the stone ages.  Thanks for hanging in there with me.    

Articles Written with a Different Pseudonym

I have just about finished a new page for this blog.  It has links to all the articles that I have written in the last couple of years as Dr. Maryellen Smith.  There’s even an article explaining the pseudonym.  (http://voices.yahoo.com/10-interesting-things-know-5367813.html?cat=37 )  You can locate the page in the right hand column of the blog under “pages”. 

The most popular article has been “15 Things I Learned During My Triplet Pregnancy” with over 23,000 page views since it was published. 

There are articles that were published on other Yahoo! sites that I am still trying to find links for.  As I find them, I will add them to the page.

There is also a link to the community page which lists all the articles and has summaries of each one. 

Enjoy them.

If you have any suggestions about the page, please let me know.   

Assignment Follow Up

I had some editorial changes to my article.

Did you know “Mom” and “Dad” are NOT proper nouns and should not be capitalized?  They are in my world, but I yield to my editors. 

I also had some issue with the indent dots when transferring from word.

I had to insert an image.

Here it is:

http://voices.yahoo.com/choosing-birth-location-hospital-vs-home-10874345.html?cat=5

Choosing a Birth Location – Hospital vs. Home

On Yahoo! Voices by Dr. Maryellen Smith

Unusual Assignment

Before I started this blog, I was writing for a web site called Associated Content.  It got bought out by Yahoo, and is now called “Yahoo! Voices”.  Since I haven’t written for a while, I had to update my information and reapply for “Featured Contributor” status.  The major reason for doing this is that it pays more. 

When you do this, you have to write an assignment on a topic that the editors choose.  I think they were intentionally being mean.  They picked:

How to Choose Between Home or Hospital Birth

It took me all afternoon to find a way to write an article that didn’t start with things like:

·        How stupid do you have to be to want to deliver at home?

·        What have you been smoking?

·        Do you want your baby to die?

I mean, really!  I spent 4 years in medical school, 4 years in residency, and have been practicing OB/GYN for almost 30 years.  Sheesh! 

What I finally wrote was “Choosing a Birth Location – Hospital vs. Home”.

I basically explained about all the reasons why you needed to have trained physicians nearby if things go wrong.  Then I talked about some of the things that can go wrong and when they do. 

We’ll see if it gets published or rejected.

Identical vs Fraternal Twins (or Triplets)

The definitive article (because I wrote it!!!!!).  It was published on Shine. 

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/yahoocontributornetwork/making-sense-of-multiple-birth-babies-identical-or-fraternal-2584864

Enjoy!

OB news:

Woman runs Chicago marathon 38 weeks pregnant, then goes into labor:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Woman-gives-birth-hours-after-completing-Chicago?urn=oly-wp756

Don’t try that at home!  This woman ran marathons regularly.  She had discussed it with her obstetrician.  Her husband ran with her. 

Another participant collapsed just before the finish line and died. 

Also, I published another article on yahoo about breech birth if you are interested:

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/yahoocontributornetwork/what-is-a-breech-birth-2574724

Morning Sickness Tips

Article published on Yahoo Shine

This article was published today on Yahoo Shine.  It is another of my “alter egos”.  Dr. Maryellen Smith has actually existed a little longer than Dr. Lasermed.

The article is entitled “An OB mom’s morning sickness tips”

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/yahoocontributornetwork/an-ob-mom-s-morning-sickness-tips-2574248

I love to see my stuff in print somewhere else!

(See me beaming!!! ;-) )