Archive for the 'BOOK – Women Work and Autoimmune Disease' Category
Last week, I spoke at a conference called, “Impairment Without Disability” at the Mayo Clinic. It was targeted to help physicians and supervisors understand what they can do to help people with impairments stay at work (SAW) or return to work (RTW). In the world of Occupational Medicine — (the field is actually called the [...]
Take a minute to ask someone, anyone: “Do you know what the Americans with Disabilities Act is?” Most likely you’ll hear Yes. Now ask, “What does the ADA do?” Maybe you’ll hear that it protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Funny how many people, with and without disabilities, know about this Act but don’t [...]
Are you living with a chronic illness and under 40? If you’re saying, YES, regardless of how debilitating or not your symptoms are, now it the time to take stock of your future in the workplace. Don’t wait until your hand is forced and you have no choice. I know because that’s what I did. [...]
Check out the very useful information in The New York Times, Patient Money column, Protecting Your Job When You Live with Chronic Illness by Lesley Alderman. And, yes, there are several quotes from me. On reading this, a client emailed to let me know that she’s worried that now that I’m famous, I wouldn’t have [...]
Chronic Illness demands that we stay flexible, like wire coils. If we don’t we can crash and burn, can’t we? It was 2:00am when I woke with a headache & felt like I was burning with fever. I was convinced it was the H1N1 virus (aka swine flu). As I lay in bed, too tired [...]
Fifteen years ago, I stopped working for two years when ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis, chronic illnesses, made working — and even leaving the house — difficult. With two children in elementary school, a husband with a demanding job and disabling disease, work became the added burden I couldn’t carry. Tell me. Does this sound [...]
Recently I experienced, yet again, how hard it is to work and live with waxing/waning chronic illness. And this just reinforces why I think that that working is the smartest thing I can do for myself. When we traveled to California to visit friends, I knew it would tire me. The time change and long [...]
Do chronic illness symptoms – -multiple sclerosis, colitis, fibromylagia or cancer, fill in the blank — crop up when you least expect them? Doesn’t it always seem to happen when there’s that big presentation at work or a major meeting requiring a plane flight and overnight stay? Or maybe it’s a regular day at work [...]
Avis had it right
Wouldn’t you know it would take “March Madness” to show us that coming from behind can make you a winner? Two guys at Wharton Behavioral Lab explored the idea that losing can lead to winning because of the strong motivational effects of being close to your goal (When Losing Leads to a Win). They applied [...]
Randy Duermyer writes, How Working At Home Found Me. This is a useful blog about working at home – check it out. People email me asking about starting their own home businesses as I did. They’re say they’re tired of showing up when they’re so sick. What does it take, they want to know. [...]
