yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: September 2014
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Tuesday, 16 September 2014. The IDEO Design Challenge. In design thinking there is much consultation and questioning with the users of the potential solution. The statement the team chose to work on was "How might we convey new symptoms to Doctors and be believed. I find that when symptoms don't fit the mold, it's back to the s...But d...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: Empower Yourself: 9th Annual Sjogren's Society of Canada Conference. Dr Rookaya Mather
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2015/07/empower-yourself-9th-annual-sjogrens_24.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Friday, 24 July 2015. Empower Yourself: 9th Annual Sjogren's Society of Canada Conference. Dr Rookaya Mather. It is also a clinical challenge for the eye care professional since it is time-consuming to diagnose and manage, it is usually not curable so the patient is frustrated, there are numerous causes and exacerbating factors and the...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: Telehealth - Necessity or Convenience?
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2015/08/telehealth-from-convenience-to-necessity.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Telehealth - Necessity or Convenience? Access to care is not the same everywhere even in Canada. My friend in Timmins is on a year long waiting list for mental health care. It would be great if there were a quicker solution. My next mental picture of telehealth features my friend Camea May. She lives in the A...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: August 2015
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Thursday, 20 August 2015. The Authentic Patient Voice. The language of patient engagement is starting to concern me. On Twitter # PatientsIncluded. Is the only patient hashtag that has not been taken and "professionalized" by hospitals and institutions as their own. Nope, it's taken. (see below). A Patient-Centered Approach to Handling...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: July 2014
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Tuesday, 22 July 2014. Validation and Online Communities. For a sample of comments by doctors look at the end of this blogpost. Just this weekend a. Said she wanted to see a blog post about the type of experience she had during. A appointment during the week. Her main symptom was a serious and recent lack of energy. After she d...Peopl...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: March 2015
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Wednesday, 11 March 2015. Sjogren's Syndrome and TMJ Dysfunction: Bad Companions. You would have thought that a smart patient with Sjogren's Syndrome would have a clear idea of what is necessary for good self care when they headed to a hospital for jaw surgery. I thought I was well prepared but I was remembering other surgeries on ...
systemicallyconnected.wordpress.com
A Day in the life of Rheumatoid Arthritis | Systemically Connected
https://systemicallyconnected.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/a-day-in-the-life-of-rheumatoid-arthritis
Trying To Survive in a RA/Lupus/Autoimmune Illness World. How Did I Get in This Lineup? A Day in the life of Rheumatoid Arthritis. February 28, 2014. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this publication are the views of the author and are not associated with publications created or developed by the International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis. Http:/ www.anesthesia.org/images/pain3.jpg. Should I take pain killers? Who can remember at 2am? I stand up and the pain shoots through my Achille...
yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: June 2014
http://yourgoldwatch.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired. A blog about healthcare, rheumatoid arthritis, and coping with chronic illness along with some practical ideas and personal strategies. Sunday, 29 June 2014. Taking control Part 5 - Dr Cindy Marek: Oral Health. Dr Cindy Marek is a Dental Pharmacist at the University of Iowa in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine. Her presentation was titled "Strategies for Oral Health and Comfort in Sjogren's Syndrome". Dr Marek at the round table discussion. There...
medicalmysterymusings.wordpress.com
My Story | My Medical Musings
https://medicalmysterymusings.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/my-story
Medically Retired and Living Life with an Idiopathic Disease. Medical Musings with Friends. My Leadership Musings—-Life before retirement. January 28, 2015. September 25, 2016. Good news is that I recovered really well post my colostomy surgery and have been adjusting to a new and interesting ( to say the least) way of life. I have a long and unknown journey ahead and surgery after surgery keeps me in a constant recovery state but I remain hopeful that we will get answers and life will eventually settle.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT