Kaycee Nilson
Besides writing columns for Speedway Media, Kaycee is currently working on two more novels, "From The Mind Of A Vampire", and "I'll Love You 'Til You Die."
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Articles by Kaycee Nilson
May 24, 2008
Grand Prairie Relay For Life via the American Cancer Society and my thoughts on it.
April 08, 2008
On February 24, 2008, I was awoken with a phone call that a hurried voice told me to run to my ex-husband´s house and not to bring our son. Little did I know that when I was about half-way there, I would get a phone call from my oldest child telling me to not rush because they are waiting on……...
October 17, 2007
The State Fair of Texas is the largest state fair in the United States. Held annually in the city of Dallas, Texas, the fair combines products from not only around the world, but products from Texas as well.
The best building, in my opinion, is the Food and Fiber Building. Here you can get free s...
August 18, 2007
This is it America! I have had enough of commercials promoting this new fat dissolving solution called “FIG.”
This is an injectable liposuction solution that is designed to dissolve fat from the inside of the body. Every commercial I see about this procedure/product, has a woman happily proclai...
August 02, 2007
Dear Readers of American Chronicle,
I am writing to you today to ask you to spread this message to everyone you know!
There is a website I want you to promote, visit and spread the word about. It is called www.jackmcclellan.com, this is an Anti-Jack McClellan website....
Who is Jack McClel...
July 09, 2007
So our move is over. We are transferred to our new house, and things are hectic. Old friends calling and wanting to meet up, family members coming over to see the new house. Plus the fact that the cat got heat exhaustion on the way down.
There is more to that story, and when I am done telling it,...
June 06, 2007
On July 1, 2007, my family and I will no longer be residents of Chicago, IL and instead will be relocating to the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. This move isn’t the result of running away from a gang-riddled neighborhood, but the result of a mother’s medical decline instead.
No, I am not talking...
November 13, 2006
I have three children, ages 16, 11, and 4. The difference I see between my 4 year-old and my 16 year-old when she was 4 is scary. At his tender age, he has remarkable hand-eye coordination and already has computer skills. Plus he is speaking some Spanish thanks to Dora the Explorer and Diego.
W...
November 13, 2006
My fiancé and I are preparing for our wedding to occur on Friday, June 22, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Needless to say, we are having a very large wedding party with 6 couples of attendants, plus the flower girl, ring bearer and two ushers.
We are having the wedding in shades of blue and lucky u...
October 31, 2006
I used to think that Christmas was the best time of the year for a child. Boy was I wrong! It’s Halloween.
Think about it, for one night out of the entire year, you dress up as someone else, you walk for endless miles (of which you don’t notice but your parents sure do!) to go door to door to be...
October 27, 2006
I recently received a hot pink iPod nano for my birthday from my fiancé. The bad part? There are no instructions in the box it came in to show you how to put your favorite pictures on the iPod!
Now I’m not the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to electronically natured things.
I had ...
October 18, 2006
Recently, my four-year-old was thrown out of pre-kindergarten because he had an accident. I’m sorry, but he’s a little kid and that’s what they do!
When I spoke to the principal on the phone to try to tell her how upset this child who now thinks that the teacher doesn’t like him was, she tartly ...
October 16, 2006
Several months ago, some friends of mine talked me into joining myspace.com. Before I knew what was happening, I had become addicted to it.
I find that everyday I can’t wait to log into the website and see if I have people wanting to be my friend, what comments I have, any messages, and how I ca...
October 14, 2006
Recently, our inside cat, Stewart, made a break for his freedom while I was napping and my fiancé decided to go out and get him. Frightened and mad, Stewart attacked the right arm of my fiancé and as an end result, my fiancé ended up with something that is commonly known as “Cat Scratch Fever.”
H...
October 14, 2006
Recently, I received and email from a fellow columnist asking me about my health and if I was all right as I have not written anything in a long while.
Truth is, I haven’t been ok. I have been far from it. My emotional state is shaky, as my physical state of medical problems seem to rack up. I f...
September 22, 2006
There are lots of stereotypes regarding lawyers. They’re thought of as ambulance chasers who will do anything to get a case. They’re thought of as money hungry types who will do anything for a buck. They’re even thought of as sleazy types who will twist events around to make an otherwise “inn...
September 18, 2006
On September 15, 2006, Duane (aka Dog) Chapman, his son Leland, and his brother Tim Chapman were all arrested in Honolulu, Hawaii on charges of illegal bounty hunting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico of Max Factor Heir, Andrew Luster. Chapman's capture of Luster, who had fled the country during his t...
September 11, 2006
Jon Imerman of Chicago has a charity that pairs cancer survivors with cancer patients for one on one counseling. He pairs current patients with survivors of the same gender and who fought the same form of cancer for better understanding of what the patient is going through.
Jon is one of the most...
August 26, 2006
Nineteen years ago, I lost my biological father to emphysema. At the time I didn’t know what emphysema was. All I knew was that my father smoked 2 – 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
Now that I have gotten older and wiser, I looked up emphysema and this is what I discovered.
Emphysema is a lung d...
August 25, 2006
When you are labeled as having any of the numerous “mental illnesses” out on the market, you have hit the grey ribbon. Also if you are diagnosed with Brain Cancer, you are awarded the Grey ribbon. This is not a ribbon that most people want to have.
In America, 9 out of 10 prescriptions written t...
August 19, 2006
Labor Day traditionally is considered to be the end of summer. It means the end of backyard barbeques, family picnics, and camping trips. Outdoor pools begin to close for the winter, and kids go back to school. It’s the time of year that the weather begins to grow cooler, and the days grow notice...
August 16, 2006
Our vacation was started with the usual packing and fussing over what was to be taken along with us on the trip.
Now my youngest son, who is now four, has had a stuffed dog since he was 2 that was given to him by a lovely lady in England named Helen Seddon. “Dawg” has gone with us on many trips ...
August 11, 2006
I will be gone from August 12 through August 16, 2006. My family and I are going to be taking our annual camping trip to Indiana Beach.
We take this trip once a year to celebrate the birthday of our oldest son. The cabins look like something out of “Little House On The Prairie” and are just as a...
August 11, 2006
Teal and white are the colors for Cervical Cancer. This is probably the easiest of all gynecological cancers to detect because a simple PAP smear can catch the symptoms of this disease.
Worldwide, this is the third most common cancer among women. There are two types of cells on the cervix surfa...
August 10, 2006
My world will fall apart if I lose my best friend. I have had this friend since my sophomore year of high school. Recently, she told me that her ob/gyn wants to talk to her on Friday, August 18, 2006, and she will not tell her why.
We went through what all it could be. She has had benign cysts...
August 09, 2006
Recently I received an email from a lady that has Fallopian Cancer. She wrote to me when I did my series on Ovarian Cancer and I feel that her story and the state of Fallopian Cancer is one that needs to be shared.
Her cancer has spread to her ovaries, cervix and abdomen. She has been given 2 – ...
August 09, 2006
Riding on the bus can be an experience in itself here in the big city. You can bump into all sorts of people and get your bum pinched as well!
But yesterday, my oldest son and I had to take the bus to see his therapist and no matter what empty seat we moved to, we could not escape the stench of ...
August 08, 2006
I recently received a care package of VEET. Eagerly I opened the box and made a mad dash to the bathroom with the VEET Rasaria. I smoothed the cream on, waited 3 minutes, the whole time thinking “Ok, any minute this is going to sting and stink,” but no stink came and no stinging!
After only 3 mi...
August 08, 2006
Well, on Monday, August 7, 2006, I had the electromyography done. If anyone tells you this is no big deal, than that person has never jumped into a pool of electric eels!
First, they strap this electrode thing to my foot, then they took this metal prong thing and started shocking my leg in diffe...
August 07, 2006
I sit here and look at this blank document wondering what to write about and nothing comes to mind that is entertaining or even newsworthy. So I decided to write about writer’s block.
Writer’s block can be devastating to a writer, even when I am journaling in my own private journal I find it har...
August 04, 2006
The time was Memorial Day Weekend of 2003, something was wrong, very wrong. I was doubled over in cramps. I was rushed to the emergency room of Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital where the emergency room doctors removed my IUD. Out with the IUD came a fibrous tissue. Before I knew what was going on I ...
August 03, 2006
Six years after the death of Gilda Radner, her husband, Gene Wilder and her friends and others started “Gilda’s Club,” an advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness of female cancer and raising funds for research of medications.
Today, there are branches of “Gilda’s Club” in every major city ...
August 02, 2006
Two days ago I wrote a column about how I thought that the official color of Ovarian Cancer should be Hunter Green. Since that time I have received many emails about the “Official Ribbon Color” being teal.
How is it that Sue and I, both survivors of cancer, did not know that the color is teal?
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July 31, 2006
We are all familiar with the pink ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness, and the multi-colored ribbon for Autism Awareness. But where is the ribbon for Ovarian Cancer Awareness?
My close friend, Sue, and I are both survivors of ovarian cancer and we have decided that the ribbon for Ovarian Cancer Aw...
July 31, 2006
Come on children of the 1970’s, you know the rest of the jingle so sing it with me! “If you dare wear short-shorts, Nair for short-shorts!”
Ah yes, that wonderful hair removal product that was introduced to American women in 1975, that smelled like a bad perm and felt like you had put burned matc...
July 31, 2006
Our landlords were requested by the city-building inspectors to rebuild the back porch. So instead of a covered back porch, where we used to be able to sit and watch the snowfall, we now have a open balcony. We enjoyed it this weekend immensely only to realize that this winter, we would not be able ...
July 27, 2006
Recently, my doctor ordered an EMG on my right leg because we know I have sciatica, it is just to what extent that we don’t know. I had no idea what the EMG stood for until I asked my good friend who is like a sister to me what it was and she helped me to locate the information on the proper name an...
July 26, 2006
My fiancé and I are preparing for our wedding to occur on Friday, June 22, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Needless to say, we are having a very large wedding party with 6 couples of attendants, plus the flower girl, ring bearer and two ushers.
We are having the wedding in shades of blue and lucky us...
July 24, 2006
Chicago’s own “Disonic” had a homecoming show at the Logan Square Auditorium. While I had attended the “Cupcake Fest” for Escape From Earth last month, could I resist going to this? NO WAY!
First off, the line just to get in was wrapped around the building. I knew I should have waited a while be...
July 22, 2006
Recently I had given up smoking. Then for some reason, I felt the need to have some nicotine in my system and a cigarette was not on the menu. So I walked to the corner store and purchased a $2.50 pack of Supreme Blend Mango flavored little Cigars.
I know, I know, Mango flavored cigars? Well, it...
July 22, 2006
I was browsing the Internet and came across a website called “Strange Laws.” Some of these laws had me rolling in laughter so hard that tears came down my face! I wanted to share some of these laws with you all so that I wouldn’t be the only one laughing at these ridiculous laws that are still on th...
July 20, 2006
My eleven-year-old son attends a year-round school program that is half days in the summer time. Some people, when told this, look at me sideways as if I am depriving the child of a summer vacation. But what they don’t know is that my son has learning disabilities and the year round school program i...
July 20, 2006
I have three children, ages 16, 11, and 4. And the differences I see between my 4 year-old and my 16 year-old when she was 4 is scary. At his tender age, he has remarkable hand-eye coordination and already has computer skills. Plus he is speaking some Spanish thanks to Dora the Explorer and Diego.
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