Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! Just when you think being a decision maker in the role of caregiver/wellness partner a new study lays an extra burden of responsibility on your shoulders. The findings are in reference to a study done on patients who had been labeled in a permanent vegetative state. In many cases the family is asked if [...]
Archive for February, 2010
As If You Didn’t Have Enough to Worry About
Posted in Caregiving, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching illness, consciousness, durable power of attorney for healthcare, end-of-life care, medical ethics, New England Journal of Medicine, partnership with doctors, patient-caregiver relationship, permanent vegetative state, Wall Street Journal on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Your Mouth is a Gateway for Wellness
Posted in living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged body in balance, coaching illness, compromised immune system, Greg Katz, health blogger, illness coaching, mouth bacteria and heart disease, mouth bacteria and kidney disease, oral health, patient empowerment on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do we decide what’s important when on the journey to wellness? You can read the studies in the New England Journal Of Medicine, watch your favorite online doctor like Sanjay Gupta, or have family members in the business, just to name a few. There are times when you’re facing a chronic or life-threatening illness [...]
Celebrate You
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged Avon Walk for the Cure, breast cancer, Cancer, coaching illness, Greg Katz, health blogger, illness coaching, patient empowerment, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We all have so many things we think we can do better that we often don’t acknowledge our accomplishments. Our society has become so focused on lack or shortcomings that when we achieve something or reach a goal sometimes we overlook the accomplishment. This is particularly true when facing a chronic or life-threatening illness. There [...]
