Different doctors FTW
My pain diagnostic specialist is elegantly opinionated. Fortunately, he acts out the distinction between being opinionated and being rude about it. We talked over a… Read More »Different doctors FTW
My pain diagnostic specialist is elegantly opinionated. Fortunately, he acts out the distinction between being opinionated and being rude about it. We talked over a… Read More »Different doctors FTW
I have written about dealing with careless, ignorant, detached, and outright bad doctors, which is needful and — given the many problematic layers of living with chronic,… Read More »More on medical relationships as a 2-way street
This is from one of my Isypedia-type replies to someone with a dreadful case of clostridium difficile (commonly known as c.diff) who had been told to… Read More »Cleaning up the question of antibacterial soap
I’m going through one of those periods where I’m just tired of my body hurting. This is one of those offhand remarks that makes fellow… Read More »Talking about CRPS with boundaries, perspective, and joy
I take good care of my brain. I work hard at learning more all the time about how to support and foster it in spite… Read More »My gut has a mind of its own
It’s been a crazy winter, even for New England. Those of you with pain syndromes know what that means: changeful weather means unstable pain neurology… Read More »Battle for the Brain
A friend I’ll call A died of suicide last night. It’s easy to say of people that they are rare and radiant souls once they’re… Read More »Losing Our Angels to Suicide
My desk setup is nonexistent and much of it still buried in unpacking. I wish I’d been writing some of the wonderful blog ideas that… Read More »To fail myself is to fail others, and doesn’t that suck!
It’s not easy to find providers who can pay attention to the people in front of them and think their way out of a wet… Read More »How I find my doctors
Um, I’m embarrassed here, but WordPress decided I wanted to publish this instead of keeping it as a draft, despite my (I thought) clear button-clicking.… Read More »Don’t abandon yourself