Day in and day out we hear about the big name illnesses. Those are the life-altering illnesses that receive celebrity endorsements, create foundations, have huge money for research and a community so people don’t feel alone. What about those illnesses that don’t fall in that category. This week I watched “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” featuring…
Many of us who are caretakers on this planet are taxed even more when confronting a life-altering illness. For the first time in years, maybe ever, your personal health can concern for self must come first. If you’ve been the one who everyone calls for advice or the person that everyone calls to volunteer for…
Most of us only make changes out of necessity. We are great at talking about making changes, especially at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately there isn’t a lot of momentum to implement the change and keeping things status quo are just a lot easier. This is all true unless you’re facing a life-altering diagnosis…
Keeping an open mind if often easier for us as patients than it is for the medical community. However, I have run in to many people facing a life-altering illness who think treatment is to be done one way and one way only. I was watching “Grey’s Anatomy” last night and one of the patients…
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