Archive for October, 2008
Where do they stand?
It might not be the top story on CNN, but at least they’re running the ads, Vote Like Your Health Depends On It, which ask our presidential candidates: Where do you stand on healthcare and spending for chronic illness? HOO – RAY! The ads were created by The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. The PFCD [...]
I’ve written about the virtual book tour for my book, Women Work and Autoimmune Disease:Keep Working, Girlfriend! It kicks off next week, Monday November 3. Those bloggers who have asked me to write a guest post for the day that they’re highlighting the book have suggested a topic to write on. That’s more difficult than [...]
I’ve been hearing about organizational wellness programs for several years now. What could be bad? According to an article in The Wall Street Journal’s, MarketWatch (Even During Financial Crisis, Investing in Wellness is Good Business) Chronic illness accounts for 2/3 of a company’s health care expense. 80% of all chronic disease is the result of [...]
You gotta’ respect a person who uses his pain to win. “During a race, … your muscles are on fire …. but you know the pain will subside. When I have to go to the hospital {with an multiple sclerosis attack), it’s like having someone pick at the back of my eyes, just tearing it [...]
Are you delegating enough?
Pain or fatigue, common symptoms when you live with a chronic illness, can make working difficult or nearly impossible. My clients living with chronic illness have held jobs from one end of the employment spectrum to the other — people who work in call centers, secretaries, truckers, self employed, not employed but looking, teachers, lawyers, [...]
Readers share
I asked for information (Can you Afford Chronic Illness?) about the new ADA legislation and in response, I got helpful tips: New York Times article Senate Measure Would Expand Disabilities Act (Thank you Christine Gombar for leading me here) Senator Tom Harkin was the chief author of the original ADA legislation and you can read [...]
My mother, who had a second heart attack when she was 73, lived with a debilitating chronic illness, congestive heart failure, for the last 13 years of her life. She died from complications from this disease Thursday, Oct 2. She had the first heart attack at age 60 and recovered completely. The second one left [...]
