Chronic Christmas on RADiabetes
You’ve heard me mention the amazing Rick Phillips before — he is the man behind #RABlog Week, an important addition to the RA conversation, now in its second year. And he was kind enough to review Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness: “I was so excited to hear about Chronic Christmas Surviving…
Chronic Christmas Goodies
I’ve mentioned before how very much I love the cover for my new book Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness. It makes me giggle. It makes other people giggle. So I decided to have some fun with it and created a pile of products using elements of the image. Best of all,…
Santa and Lucia Converge
The two most important events that herald the beginning of the Christmas seasons are — to me at least — the Santa Claus Parade and the Swedish Christmas Fair. They happen to be on the same weekend, and the parade is much closer, so it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I started…
Chronic Christmas on Cateepoo’s blog
I develop traditions easily. In fact, I’ve been known to say that if I do something twice and I like it, it’s tradition. This means that it’s now tradition that I start my blog tours for a new book on Cathy’s blog. Hopefully, she’ll think that’s fun, too. Just before the weekend, Cathy posted her…
Being Sensitive to Scent in a World Full of Fragrance
In my new post for Mango Health, I share what it’s like to be scent-sensitive in as fragranced world and the what you can do to cope: “Today is cleaning day for my neighbor across the hall. As floor cleaner fumes snake their way under my front door, I have an early morning asthma reaction….
A Chronic Christmas Carol: Healing You, Healing Me
Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness is now available in paperback on all the Amazons. Did you know I have a new book out? Could be hard to miss, what with me barely mentioning it. Okay, so I haven’t shut up about it, but it’s still theoretically possible that you might have…
Self-Care Tips for the Holidays with a Chronic Illness
The holidays are looming coming soon and already, many people with chronic illness by dreading the impact it will have on them. My new post for HealthCentral has tips for how to get through the holidays with your health and sense of humour intact:“Do you remember the holidays last year? If you’re like me, you…
What to Do If You’ve Been Abused by a Health Professional
It’s the thing no one talks about: abuse and mistreatment by health professionals. They are supposed to keep us safe, to help us, but this isn’t always the case. In my new post for HealthCentral I share my story of abuse and write about what you can do if this happens to you: “First do…
Book Launch: Chronic Christmas
New book just released! I’ve been hinting at this for a while and it’s finally here. Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness is now available on Amazon. This is an Advent calendar full of self-care tips to help people with chronic illness savor the holiday season as never before. Chronic Christmas has…
Myths and Facts about Biologics
Whenever you talk to someone about Biologics, you can hear a lot of different reasons not to take them. Many of these are not true. In my new slideshow for RAHealthCentral, I look at the myths and misperceptions about Biologics: “Biologics are a relatively new class of drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They…
Mariah Leach: Mom, Blogger, Bicyclist
I’m lucky to have met a lot of people in the chronic illness community who inspires me. One of these is Mariah Leach and she’s just done something extra inspiring (and a little bit crazy). “Mariah Zebrowski Leach has rheumatoid arthritis (RA). She is also the busy mom of two sons, a blogger, and the…
Getting Organized: The Desk
I am not known for having a pristine home. Clean, yes. Tidy? Not so much. And this has two causes. via GIPHY One, tidying up is not in my top priorities. It doesn’t really hold much interest for me and besides, I usually know exactly where things are in the piles. Once it’s cleaned up,…