Category Archives: Coping
2010/03/09
Chronic Illness, Community, Coping, Diagnosis, Education and Skill Building, Events, Local Resources, Oregon, Scleroderma, Support Groups, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Treatments and Drug Trials, Washington
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Just a reminder about the Educational Seminar going on this Saturday, offered through the Oregon Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation. Even if you don’t have this particular disease, the......
2010/03/03
Chronic Illness, Community, Coping, Family, Guest Blogger, Local Resources, MLWT, Oregon, Self-Care, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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Hello, dear MLWT readers. I am pleased to be invited to do some guest blogging for you now and then, and it feels like it might be nice to put first things first and introduce myself properly.
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This month in the MLWT Shelfari.com group , and continuing through March, we are discussing the book Unexpected Blessings: Stories of Hope and Healing (Penguin Group, 2009) written by Roxanne B......
I’ve found that my relationship to illness has become more of one that requires me to constantly acknowledge a relationship with illness.
Realistically speaking, the days of being able to keep ......
One would think that living with challenged kidney function, I would probably be swilling fluids all day long in an effort to make sure they keep working. In actuality, though, I tend to walk a......
As I contemplate this month’s focus on heart health or, more accurately, the demise of my own heart health, I can’t help but ask myself:
What Would Jillian [Michaels] Do if she had lupus?
This......
2010/01/15
Coping, Diagnosis, Events, Local Resources, Lupus, Men, Men's support, Oregon, Self-Care, Television and Radio, Washington
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I received an email from Kathy Casey, Executive Director of the Lupus Foundation of America -Pacific NW Chapter letting me know about an event that I want to pass along to all of you:
“Hello,
We......
An announcement from our local Scleroderma Chapter:
Have You Experienced a Lifetime Cap on Your Health Insurance?
The Scleroderma Foundation is interested in speaking with scleroderma patients w......
This week is National Handwashing Week .
I fall somewhere between “Extra precautions are a good idea” and “What’s all the hysteria really about?! ” when it comes to exposing my already-accelera......
2009/11/07
Books, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Coping, Events, Lupus, Networking, Oregon, Self-Care, Social Support, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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In the last post , I spoke of how many of us constantly seek out information regarding our chronic illness believing that the more we know, the better we will be in managing our illnesses. Alth......
