Last summer I received an out of the blue email, from the Executive Director of PARC. That’s the national patient organization for my rare disease, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). CRPS used to be called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), so the new label for the Read More …
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If not, do you make a pact with yourself to do something in the New Year that’s different from what you’ve done in the past? To learn something new, to develop a new habit or break an old one? Read More …
The past few weeks have been a good reminder that I can still contribute to projects, as a patient partner, in meaningful ways. This involves quite a bit of adaptation from the ways in which I used to do things, because I’m now living with Read More …
Happy 2020! I wish you happiness, joy, laughter, love, and health – as good as it can be – for the 2020s and beyond ‘-) As is my tradition on the first day of each year, I’ve been looking back at the past twelve months; Read More …
The weather here today was practically spring-like for a change, sunny and just above the freezing point. This isn’t typical of Montreal winters, and just last week we had windchill temperatures of -31C (about -32F for my American friends). That’s quite a difference in temperatures, Read More …
Something strange happened to me in a coffee shop today. If you’re Canadian you may already have guessed that the setting for this story is a Tim Horton’s café ‘-) A friend, who’s a former colleague, and I were having bagels and coffee for brunch. Read More …
