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Fourth of July weekend photo dump ☀️🍔🌿🇺🇸

“We the People” feels especially meaningful today—a reminder that freedom, community, and caring for one another are at the heart of this country. 🇺🇸

Wishing you a Fourth of July filled with gratitude for the simple blessings of liberty: time with family, laughter with friends, and the chance to enjoy this beautiful life we get to spend together.

Happy 4th of July ❤️🤍💙

Bad jokes are good medicine. 😄

While laughter won’t replace exercise, hydration, or good sleep, it can help lower stress and leave you feeling a little lighter. Sometimes a smile is exactly what your nervous system needs.

My dad was full of corny one-liners. A few of my favorites:

😂 “Does 10 pounds of flour make a big biscuit?”
😂 “I’m finer than a frog’s hair split three ways.”
😂 “Better mow the lawn before the yellow tops become fluffy tops.”

They still make me smile...💛

Happy International Joke Day! I’d love to hear one of your favorite dad jokes or family sayings in the comments...bonus points if I've never heard them before!

Maybe it’s because I grew up on the coast, but there’s nothing quite like the sound of the ocean and the feeling of sand between your toes. 🌊

Yesterday I got on the treadmill for the first time since my surgery. It wasn’t fast, it wasn’t far, and I definitely felt like I was starting from scratch again.

But maybe that’s what the tide reminds us: life is always moving. Every setback, every success, every season is temporary. We don’t have to be where we were yesterday—we just have to keep moving forward, one step at a time.

Here’s to embracing new beginnings, celebrating small victories, and trusting that every step (no matter how slow) is still progress.

Happy Monday. 💙

This pup has mastered something I'm still working on: relaxing without a stitch of guilt 😆

Enjoy your weekend—hopefully it includes a little guilt-free laziness.

To all the professionals returning from conferences, trainings, conventions, and work retreats…

How’s that conference recovery going?

Did you survive:
✈ The travel
🏨 The hotel bed
🍽 Three restaurant meals a day
🪑 Eight hours of sitting
🥂 The networking event that somehow lasted until 10pm.
⏰ The 5:30am alarm for the next day’s keynote

If you’re home feeling a little heavy, puffy, and convinced your next ten meals need to be salads, you’re not alone.

A lymphatic massage can help you feel refreshed and back to yourself after days of travel, sitting, rich foods, and less-than-perfect sleep.

Your conference may be over, but your recovery doesn’t have to take a week.

This is huge for people with lipedema…cheers to progress!

Big news for the Lipedema community!

New ICD-10-CM codes for Lipedema have been accepted and, barring something out of the ordinary, are on track to take effect in October 2027.

The original application went to the CDC in 2020, and getting here took years of follow-up and persistence, especially by Dr. Karen Herbst, who presented cycle after cycle since then.

This is a breakthrough. Getting Lipedema-specific ICD codes in place in the US, as they have been in other countries for some time, has been one of our field's biggest goals for years. It was a top recommendation in the Lipedema Foundation's 2023 Research Roadmap (lipedema.org/roadmap), and the effort far precedes that.

These codes are vital for easing patient access to diagnosis and care, facilitating reimbursement, and enabling health records research at scale.

Congratulations and thank you to Dr. Herbst; to Dr. Thomas Wright MD FAVLS and the American Vein & Lymphatic Society for their early work; and to all the submitters, collaborators, and endorsers who made this happen.

Dads.

The grill masters.
The fix-it experts.
The protectors, supporters, teachers, and biggest cheerleaders.
The ones who carry the entire grocery haul in one trip (if you're my husband 😆).

Today we celebrate all the dads who make life better—and a lot more fun.

Happy Father’s Day! 💙

Stay sharp, friends. It's almost the weekend. 😎🌵

Growing a tiny human is hard work. So is carrying around all that extra fluid. 🤰💦

Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a gentle technique designed to encourage the movement of lymphatic fluid, helping many expectant moms feel lighter, more comfortable, and less puffy.

So yes, put your feet up.
Drink your water.
And if your legs are feeling like they’re carrying the weight of the world (and a baby), lymphatic massage may help.