Eden Family Practice, LLC

03/16/2026

03/12/2026

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03/11/2026

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03/01/2026

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As we age and our bad habits and neglect catches up with us, our arteries can start to narrow because of plaque and calcium build-up. When the vessels that supply blood to our arms and legs become narrowed, and blood decrease to these areas, we call this peripheral artery disease. This usually refer...

02/26/2026

I absolutely adore Kentucky. I was happy in Indiana, content, but I do really love Kentucky. Never did I ever imagine living here, but am so glad we made the move.

I did go to graduate school in Hyden, so was somewhat familiar, and I remember driving home from earning my doctorate, realizing it was probably the last time I'd make that drive; I was in tears. The mountains are incredible, as are the incredibly kind people.

There are so many misconceptions about Kentucky and so much that goes unappreciated, but the smoking... oh wow, the smoking. I assume this relates to the long history of to***co farming. I would say I most often hear people share that they had their first cigarette between 10 or 13 years of age.

These past few weeks though, I had a client share with me that she smoked her first cigarette at 5 years of age, another at 7 years. And another client shared he smokes 4 packs of ci******es daily. I remember the first time I went to the grocery store in Hazard, seeing Kentuckians smoke at the salad bar, right there in the produce section.

I know this isn't true for everyone and I don't want to over generalize, but it seems to me that for many, smoking is untreated ADHD. Having spent most of my career as a midwife, smoking is a new problem to conquer, but I am intrigued. Four packs a day is about four ci******es an hour - no one ever thought to inquire about the potential for ADHD? Y'all.

02/25/2026

Talking this week with one of my more senior clients, nearly 100 years of age, about the passing of the daily *cough* stools. Like many in this generation, she spoke of her mother having a journal of all her and her siblings passings and when they didn't, the remedies they would receive by spoon or e***a.

She spoke of a Crazy Crystal Liquid which I hadn't heard of before, but after googling, found they had some serious commercials. She also mentioned her grandmother used coffee e***as, which worked super well so she continues to use them today if she doesn't move in three days. Seems my mother said her grandmother would give them kayro syrup.

This evening though, as I talk with students about baby care techniques through history, I was reading about advertisements from the Golden Ages for Corporal Punishments. These ran in parenting magazines, showing father's spanking little ones with a hairbrush if they didn't take their daily dose of laxatives.

The good 'ol days when a man could come home from work and expect his children to have already moved their bowels -- and if they hadn't, he could follow them into the street and thrash them with a grooming tool, perhaps as a lesson to those Little Tommy Tight-Guts up and down the block. You'll better crap now, or you'll be next, now, ya hear?