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What I wish I knew sooner about prescription meds #patienthealthliteracy
Read more: What I wish I knew sooner about prescription meds #patienthealthliteracyI have been living in the US for almost 4 years, and am just now learning something about how to reduce some of my crazy medication costs. When I ran into a problem with my blood-pressure meds where the generics contained gluten so I had to pay extra for the brand name. At the time, I…
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Update on my foot and three years …
Read more: Update on my foot and three years …The good news is that my foot is healing well. The first few day was OK, the second and third days were quite painful. I didn’t have strong enough pain meds or a good enough strategy for dealing with the pain. Fortunately, I knew enough not to suffer too long, and called the weekend emergency…
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Experience, expression, and meaning making
Read more: Experience, expression, and meaning makingI’m finding myself in a bit of a challenging position right now. I don’t know if it is a funk – or just kind of […]
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Normalcy of Surgery – and my big toe
Read more: Normalcy of Surgery – and my big toeI am surprised at how I don’t think much of surgery – and yet I’m thinking about it. I’m preparing for it. I’m hoping it is as minor as the last time (Oct 2016). It will be slightly more invasive, as this time I have to be non-weight-bearing for 2 weeks – last time I…
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Just talking
Read more: Just talkingI had a great conversation the other day, which was recorded for the Just Talking podcast – https://justtalkingpodcast.com/2018/01/09/with-rebecca-hogue/ What do you think?
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Celiac disease research update #celiac
Read more: Celiac disease research update #celiacIf you have celiac disease in your family, I highly recommend a quick read of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center’s annual report – it is a short synopsis of relevant research (free – http://www.cureceliacdisease.org/wp-content/uploads/CdC_ResearchReport_17_WEBSITE.pdf). What I find particularly interesting is the link between the gene and a virus. This is especially important for families…
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As Dec 17 approached, I’m trying to figure out Christmas
Read more: As Dec 17 approached, I’m trying to figure out ChristmasI bought my first ever real Christmas tree this year. It is a small tabletop tree – about all I could really handle. I’ve always had small trees – actually I had a Christmas pillar, and last year we decorated a Cactus out in the Arizona dessert. This year we are staying home so I figured…
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Reflections on – When breath becomes air
Read more: Reflections on – When breath becomes airI just finished reading When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. I’m glad that Lucy Kalanithi was speaking at an event with a friend of mine, Kelsey Crowe who wrote the book There is No Good Card For This (highly recommended), as I otherwise may not have added When Breath Becomes Air to my reading…
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Recurrence and hormone therapy
Read more: Recurrence and hormone therapyEven since Cancer Research UK posted an article reporting on a research report by Pan et al (2017), I have seen a lot of discussion on the topic of hormone positive breast cancer prognosis and hormone therapy. The article itself caused a lot of concern surrounding two key things: (1) the continued risk of recurrence through…
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Mindfulness and CBT – A #yogamooc reflection
Read more: Mindfulness and CBT – A #yogamooc reflectionYogaMOOC has caused me to reflect on the relationship between mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In the past I have been challenged with mindfulness instruction. In part, this has been because the instructors taught what worked for them, or what they had been told to teach, but what works for one person may be…
