Happy almost Halloween, everyone! I’ve been busy over the past few weeks, participating in meetings about pain research and health policy, providing a patient perspective on the development of a new pain research project, and preparing my own little awareness campaigns for some special events Read More …
Last month I wrote about having done something completely new for me, at a local hospital. It wasn’t a new treatment for my chronic pain condition, or a new project as a Patient Partner in research. So it must have been something to do with Read More …
This afternoon I participated in a live-virtual watercolour painting workshop hosted by the Cornell Ornithology Lab. This was very interesting to me, as I’ve been painting birds on my own for a while now. It was great to get some guidance from a professional natural Read More …
Today I did something different, something completely new for me, at a local hospital. If it was “different”, then it obviously wasn’t another medical appointment or test for my rare disease! Nor did I attend a research meeting, as either a Patient Partner or a Read More …
While prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, they were supplanted first by heroin and then by fentanyl, a dangerously powerful opioid, in recent years.” (1) Unfortunately, though, when people hear about the “opioid epidemic” (2) – in the news, in politics, in public Read More …
If you think of contemporary artists, does the name Robert Bateman come to mind? He is “one of Canada’s foremost artists, … also a naturalist recognized by the Audubon Society as one of the 20th century’s “heroes of conservation”.” (1) He has long been my Read More …
