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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: September 2014
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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...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: Empower Yourself: 9th Annual Sjogren's Society of Canada Conference. Dr Rookaya Mather
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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...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: Telehealth - Necessity or Convenience?
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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...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: July 2014
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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...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: March 2015
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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 ...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: February 2015
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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. Monday, 2 February 2015. Third Annual Rheumatoid Awareness Day. February 2nd was Rheumatoid Awareness Day. You can find more about the history of this awareness campaign here. At the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation. From Rheumatoid Patient Foundation. We need to increase awareness of Rheumatoid Disease and the effects on patients among t...
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: Real Hands, Real People
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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, 2 August 2015. Real Hands, Real People. Thank to my friends for sharing stories about their hands. I find it helpful to hear what others experience and know I am not alone. Like crazy but that comes and goes. Sometimes I have deep aching here and there and that comes and goes. I really didn't realize how awful my hands looked u...
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My Ups and Downs of Everyday Life: Patiently Waiting
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My Ups and Downs of Everyday Life. Wednesday, May 7, 2014. I called the weight loss doctor because they didn't call me in April and the nurse said they were having a few problems getting it together but they will call me as soon as possible. I hate the waiting. I need this more than anything in my life right now. I need to get the weight off for medical and personal reasons. Well, I am busy going in and out but it looks like rain which is good for my vegetable, herbs and flowers. July 25, 2016 at 8:54 AM.
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: January 2015
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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, 7 January 2015. Power Equality: Not Even on the Radar. Late last year I was pleased to be invited to attend a conference called "Reaching the Summit: Leading the way from Interprofessional Education to Practice". We're making the right connections. The variety of opinions led to strong and useful conclusions and strategies.
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Here's Your Gold Watch - Rheutired: December 2014
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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, 31 December 2014. Last year on New Year's Eve I was thinking about my hopes for the coming year - they were simple but seemed like stretch goals that would take five years or more to achieve. Here's a picture of the jacket - it tells the story of my first years with RA and without a diagnosis. It's A Mystery" is inspired par...
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