Pain Management IQ
Pain Pathways is the magazine of the World Institute of Pain. I’m a subscriber. I checked the website and discovered Test Your Pain IQ. I answered only one incorrectly: True or False? The brain can be...
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A lupus patient walks into a gym…
…after walking into a lab. This is my norm: medical intervention and then asserting a different kind of dominion over the body. When my rheumatologist insisted in ’00 that I start to do as much...
View ArticleResources for Lupus Patients
I often check the ‘net for new resources for lupus patients. My best find so far has been Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, an “organization that provides free information, advice and...
View ArticleA lupus patient wheezes into an ER…
…for breathing lessons. One of the realities for some people with lupus is that the main fault line – lupus – occurs among other bodily fault lines, each of which respond easily to any change in...
View ArticleThe lupus horizon: how to plan like a sickie
I recently spoke with a twenty-something woman who was diagnosed with an illness that ends in disability and death. To protect her identity, I won’t share further details of her situation, but I will...
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