How to Cope with Pain is now offering a monthly Pain-Blog Carnival during the last week of every month, to include each month’s best posts. December’s carnival is now posted. New bloggers are always welcome to contribute.
Working with chronic illness. Who is driving your bus? Do you feel like you’re […]

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Remember that name.  It can lead to a broken heart.
HEART BREAK from the loss of someone you love — a lover, a child, a friend — it aches more on holidays. Memories flood in and loneliness can take over. Heartbreak from loss can break the soul.
And then there […]

I just got an email from someone who saw my blogs.  She wants me to know that she doesn’t understand why I feel “compelled to write about working with a chronic illness.”  Oh, and FYI — she’s recently gotten a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis but she doesn’t see that it should be a problem to […]

A client just emailed me saying that he decided not to take this week off as he’d planned  –  he’s going to keep working since he’s feeling well  (he’s got hypertropic cardiomyopathy). He’s a software marketing executive  and he figures he might as well take advantage of it.

I found myself thinking, I guess that’s smart […]

A question that inevitably comes up when I’m working with a client who is in a career shift (and needless to say, lives with chronic illness) : “Should I/ could I/ would I start my own business?”

Who hasn’t thought/dreamed about this? Especially us - the working and chronically […]

I was blind in one eye and couldn’t lift myself to get out of bed. My neurologist told me that once I had my strength and my vision back, I should go back to work. That was 30 years ago and I’ve followed his advice ever since.
But this is clearly not the message […]

In the “never a dull moment in the blogging world” department -in my  2nd post of today I’m here to tell  you about this event.
This from the initiator of the carnival, Somebody heal me:
The holiday season can be a fun time of year filled with high expectations, special events, family and friends and lots of […]

I’ve been “tagged”.

I was wondering if I’d ever get to be tagged. And then, tah dah, How to cope with pain tagged me.
If you’re not a blogger, you must be thinking - HUH? What’s a meme? Bloggers have this funny language. Basically this is like those chain letters we […]

Q: What’s wrong with this picture?
A: Jews (or at least observant Jews) don’t eat Ham!
But even well meaning people can make mistakes, don’t they?
I thought of this when a client emailed me about an article about medical mistakes in The New Yorker (click here to read how checklists save lives)
She wrote: “This New […]

Great thing about reading other blogs is that I find articles I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. A favorite blogger of mine, Kerri Morrone, at Six Until Me (click on this link) mentioned this article by Tara Parker Pope at the New York Times Blog, The Value of a friend in the […]