Naming Things
It’s been said, and I believe it to be true, that naming things gives you power over them. A recent post by Sara introduced me to a term I hadn’t heard before, Impostor Syndrome. Reading about it, it...
View ArticleA Look Into A Different Chronic World
** Today’s post is a guest post from fellow Society for Participatory Medicine member and e-patient Alex Albin, who blogs at My Life in the Bush of Doctors . She’s wondering about something all of us...
View ArticleCaregiving as an Invisible Health Condition
This week is National Invisible Illness Awareness Week, organized by Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries. ** There is a great article on CNN about Talking with Someone Who is Chronically Ill that...
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Health Camp KC – The Unconference
Wow, what a weekend! There was a lot going on this weekend, I attended the Partnership With Patients conference on Saturday and the HealthCa.mp KC unconference on Sunday. By the way, I am a terrible...
View ArticleYes, Actions Do Have Consequences
A while back I met an individual, a member of the HCP community, who told me that they read my blog. I still feel a little awkward when someone tells me that, so I usually just say “Thanks!”. The...
View ArticleOn Feeling Centered
Ever since the Partnership With Patients Conference and the Health Ca.mp Unconference a few weeks ago, I’ve really been feeling better about things in general. Morpheus even noticed at our following...
View ArticleI’m Not Broken
I’m not broken. I never was, I simply did not have the tools I needed to realize that. There are things, demons that I must still face. But with hard work and guidance, I know I can face them. I’m not...
View ArticleHey EHR Guys, Data is Data
Recently, during a discussion on EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems on the Society For Participatory Medicine’s mailing list, fellow Society member Casey Quinlan wrote: We are so not even near...
View ArticleAnd Then It Became So Hard
** You’ll want to read That Fateful Saturday and It Would Be So Easy first, otherwise this might not make much sense So I Chose. I was still terribly depressed, but no longer at rock bottom. I was...
View ArticleLoss Of An Old Friend
** taking a slight detour from my account of dealing with my depression to talk a little about my mom Those who have read my blog for a while will know that I am a live-in caregiver for my mother. Two...
View ArticleFinding Morpheus
** those following along the last few months know who Morpheus refers to… for those who don’t it is how I refer to my psychologist in my blog posts describing my experiences in talk therapy One of the...
View ArticleRelaunched! mostly…
After more than two years of being kindly hosted over at DiabetesBlogs.com, an offering of DiabetesDaily.com, I have moved to a new hosting service. David Edleman over at Diabetes Daily offers free...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned So Far
It’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to finish up my discussion of the last few years with a summary of what I’ve learned (sometimes I think stumbled into is a better description). Learning...
View ArticleThe Law of Unintended Consequences
As a firm believer in the Law of Unintended Consequences (LoUC), it immediately came to mind when I read a post by Dan Diamond over at the Health Care Blog, About Time? Smokers Face Tough New Rules...
View ArticleMorpheus Speaks
** Today, I am happy to introduce Dr. Ann Becker Shutte, better known as Morpheus. Take it away, Ann! Hi all–nice to virtually meet you. This is a first for me–sharing a guest post on a former...
View ArticleYour Child is Going to Die and We Can’t Do Anything About It
“Your child has Type 1 diabetes” Those are six words that no parent wants to hear. Those six words were a death sentence 90 years ago before the advent of insulin. Today, most of the developed world...
View ArticleNational Eating Disorders Awareness Week – I’m One of the Disorderly
I have body image issues. My rather large gut shames me almost everyday. It dictates how I dress, what I eat, makes me want to stay in and isolate myself so not to feel embarrassed. After going through...
View ArticleI Can’t Find The Word For This Type Of ‘-ism’ Or ‘-ist’
And it’s not from a lack of trying, the word simply doesn’t exist. Maybe there’s been no need for it, a word to describe a concept that is imbedded in societies around the world. Maybe it simply hasn’t...
View ArticleI Have To Stop Giving A Sh*t
I’ve been pretty absent recently dealing with a big chunk of burnout. Not diabetes burnout, but caregiver burnout. While I really have to do very little for mom, there are a lot of things that roll...
View ArticleCause & Effect
Last time I described how I was trying to change the way I perceived stress and it’s effect on me, how I was trying to separate the two. In effect, I described the separation of cause and effect. Well,...
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