Well, I sure got a fantastic surprise today! A Montreal newspaper, The Suburban (1), published a Feature article about a local artist who uses her watercolour paintings to help raise awareness of chronic pain and of a rare disease called CRPS or Complex Regional Pain Read More …
Two days ago I was joyfully riding my bike along an easy waterfront trail through a forest, before dinner. I was going quite slowly, searching for little clearings with good views to which I could return to do some plein-air (outdoor) watercolour paintings of the Read More …
I’ve lost two dear friends in the past few weeks, to terminal illnesses. One was in her 80s, the other in his late 20s and just starting his life in many ways. That’s why I haven’t been posting much in the past little while. One Read More …
Clinton (Clint) Shard, 1993 – 2022 When I started working at the last job that I had, before my medical leave due to a rare disease, I was assigned to a workspace in a windowless former storage area. The company’s entire three-floor office building was 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 …
As someone who lives with a rare disease, and has a background in healthcare and medical research, I try to follow any research news that might affect my condition. Because Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is rare, there’s not usually much research published specifically about Read More …
