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1% Thursday: Delegate. Just once.

by James on 16 July 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Take one thing on your to do list, and delegate it.
We’re community creatures.  We live in groups for a reason.  We help each other, and life is better that way.
When you have a chronic illness, however, you’re especially sensitive about [...]

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Headache friendly communities?

by James on 4 March 2008

When you go to church, or to a synagogue, or any place where there’s a community of people that you would expect would be supportive, do you find it to be a welcoming place, or a headache sufferer’s nightmare?  Is it easy to be a part of what’s going on, or are there barriers?  Recently [...]

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Those One-Idea Days

by James on 7 December 2007

So I hear we’re supposed to live every day like it was Christmas.  Sometimes that seems like a good idea.  Other times – the tense times, the sick times, the frustrating times – it seems like a nightmare.  At times like this, one Christmas is more than enough.
Then again, maybe one Christmas isn’t enough.  Here’s [...]

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Prescribing power for pharmacists

by James on 2 June 2006

An interesting development is taking place in the province of Alberta, in Canada.  A law passed on May 31, 2006 gives pharmacists new power to prescribe drugs, without the involvement of a doctor.
Starting in the fall, pharmacists who complete a special training program will be able to prescribe certain drugs, and also administer vaccines.  This [...]

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Helping your friends understand

by James on 26 September 2005

Thanks to Kerrie at The Daily Headache for pointing this one out.  There’s a website put together by Christine Miserandino called But You Don’t Look Sick?.  It’s a very popular site, but for some reason I’ve never mentioned it here before.
The focus of the site is on those who have Lupus, or, as the home [...]

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