Archive for December, 2007
New Year Thoughts
Working with chronic illness. Who is driving your bus? Do you feel like you’re driving in circles – or someone else is driving this instead of you?
I want to hear your thoughts – we all want your comments. Click on the comments on share with others what you find works.
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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’m Tagged on a Meme.
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 [...]
