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Cowgirl Life and Mineral Strife: When Hg Steals Your Balance
Adrienna Hines 4/29/25 Adrienna Hines 4/29/25

Cowgirl Life and Mineral Strife: When Hg Steals Your Balance

2024 proved to be another critical year of discovery in my health journey…

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Riding Through the Storm: Battling Symptoms on the Trail to Recovery
Adrienna Hines 2/4/25 Adrienna Hines 2/4/25

Riding Through the Storm: Battling Symptoms on the Trail to Recovery

As I look back through my life, there were many signs and symptoms along the way…

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Saddling up for adventure:  The cowgirl's bold journey in foreign territory
Adrienna Hines 9/16/24 Adrienna Hines 9/16/24

Saddling up for adventure:  The cowgirl's bold journey in foreign territory

“Normal people” usually have Hg and heavy metal issues if...

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Riding the Post-Surgery Trail: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Adrienna Hines 7/17/24 Adrienna Hines 7/17/24

Riding the Post-Surgery Trail: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

In the fall of 2020 I began to get serious about understanding what was needed after the metal had been removed…

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Saddle up – the summer of dental surgeries!
Adrienna Hines 5/17/24 Adrienna Hines 5/17/24

Saddle up – the summer of dental surgeries!

Upon landing on the dental treatment plan, I had to get my head wrapped around all of the steps…

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Alice’s (er, I mean Adrienna’s) Journey: Down the Rabbit Hole
Adrienna Hines 3/4/24 Adrienna Hines 3/4/24

Alice’s (er, I mean Adrienna’s) Journey: Down the Rabbit Hole

As the universe works in magical ways…

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Cowgirl, here comes the grenade!
Adrienna Hines 1/24/24 Adrienna Hines 1/24/24

Cowgirl, here comes the grenade!

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times…

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The rush is on – North to Montana!
Adrienna Hines 1/4/24 Adrienna Hines 1/4/24

The rush is on – North to Montana!

The logical place to move to was Helena, Montana…

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“Go West, young lady”!
Adrienna Hines 1/4/24 Adrienna Hines 1/4/24

“Go West, young lady”!

I left the humidity, water towers, and my friends and landed in Colorado…

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First ‘real’ job….the land of corn, soybeans and more soybeans and corn.
Adrienna Hines 1/4/24 Adrienna Hines 1/4/24

First ‘real’ job….the land of corn, soybeans and more soybeans and corn.

My first ‘real job’ took me straight from Montana to Des Moines, IA, the center of Midwest agriculture…

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Don’t Sell Your Saddle or Give Up on Your Dreams!
Adrienna Hines 12/17/23 Adrienna Hines 12/17/23

Don’t Sell Your Saddle or Give Up on Your Dreams!

As my recovery continued, I remember the feeling of everyone staring at me and treating me differently since I was in a wheelchair…

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1989 – The Year I Got ‘Bucked Off’!
Adrienna Hines 12/17/23 Adrienna Hines 12/17/23

1989 – The Year I Got ‘Bucked Off’!

When I turned 15, as my freshman year of high school was ending in May, I traveled south to Oklahoma with my brother…

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