When I broke my arm in March 2016, I had to go buy another winter jacket. My cast wouldn’t fit through the sleeves of any of my winter coats, nor any of the ones that my friends offered to lend me. In Montréal a winter jacket Read More …
I’m one of those people who plans for the holidays all year long, happily squirrelling away gifts – starting in February! – for the following holiday season. November’s drawing to a close, so my Christmas and New Year’s gifts are already wrapped and under the tree! That’s Read More …
Last week I wanted to check something on a medical journal website, and ended up on another site instead. But it ended up being a good thing, after all. The webpage I landed on, by mistake, lists different types of conditions or diseases that can Read More …
Well, we’re less than a month from Christmas now, so that means… holiday baking! Not only for Christmas, but also for my Jewish and Muslim friends, and for some who celebrate other holidays. For friends who don’t celebrate anything over the holiday season (except for Read More …
There’s an interesting article over on Quartz, with a truly striking description of chronic pain, written by a physician: Chronic pain is torture and it terrorizes the patient’s brain.”(1) Wow. This is such a simple and elegant statement of a complex set of physiological – Read More …
Here’s the solution to a word-search puzzle I created for November 6th; the 2017 awareness-raising day for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS. It’s a rare and usually invisible disease, and to make it even harder to pin down, many physicians seem to use its Read More …
