Archive for the 'BOOK – Women Work and Autoimmune Disease' Category
Have you recently lost your job – – and live with a chronic illness? Recently I heard a career specialist on CNN give advice about what you can if you lose your job and you’re in an industry hit hard in this recession. The interviewer wasn’t focusing on the chronically ill — but it doesn’t [...]
Are you thinking: it’s got to be easier to work for myself rather than dragging myself into work every day? A reader asked me to write about this: I would really like to see more profiles with people who own their own business like you. I am so demanding on myself, that when I am [...]
A few weeks ago I blogged about my own sinus surgery to improve rinitis . I’ve felt worse post surgery than before – and it’s been 4 weeks. This was not expected and caught me unprepared. What happened? I was supposed to “naturally” shed the scabbing that occurs from breaking nasal passages. But it hasn’t [...]
Special holiday offer
Are you looking for that special gift for someone you know with chronic illness? A good friend, a loved one? Maybe something just for you? Something that will help you Kick Butt in 2009? The Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! virtual book tour is over. It was a smashing success with 18 [...]
FYI: If you get this as an email, you can click on the title and read this post on the internet blog site. A reader wrote that he couldn’t figure out the image I put in yesterday’s post. Looking at the post again, I could see why he was confused. It was supposed to imply [...]
More Book Tour Stops
I thought I’d gotten this post out for Monday but didn’t realize that my server wasn’t working right! So, let me take you back a few days on the tour and tell you what’s coming Monday Nov 17 — We were at Shauna’s Life In Pain. I wrote about how people seem to respond to [...]
More book tour stops
Great stops so far. If you’ve missed them, go back and see where we’ve been. This is what’s coming up: Tues Nov 11 – achronic dose, Laurie Edwards interviews me about the book’s focus, the warrior spirit and more. Wed Nov 12 – despite lupus, asked me to respond to this question: Why do you [...]
Yes, it’s finally over. We can get back to whatever we were doing before this started … what was it, two years ago? And now the work, to open healthcare access for all, begins. ***************************************************************************** Read how one young woman handled poor treatment when the proctor almost didn’t let her take the GRE’s because of [...]
A reader told me that Web MD has put together a comprehensive chart to compare how the candidates stand on health issues. This is useful information! Here are some questions for you: Would you vote solely on one issue – this or any other? Would you vote for a candidate who supports your issue but [...]
Tuesday is voting day and I bet you’re wondering: How am I going to get to the voting booth, wait on those long lines? Here we go again, I look fine so I can’t say I’m too tired to stand on long lines and still get to work on time (or not — if you’re [...]
