Nominate a Caregiver for a 2011 Shire Brave Award!

We always like to pass on good stuff when we find it, and what is better then  honoring a great caregiver in your life? The Shire Brave Awards are a new initiative of Shire plc, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, to acknowledge ordinary people who give of themselves by caring for othe

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When Your Caregiver Is Also Your Significant Other

When Your Caregiver Is Also Your Significant Other

With most couples in a long-term love relationship, whether or not they are married, the phrase "in sickness and in health" conjures up images of short-lived ailments like the flu, or perhaps helping each other in old age after multiple healthy decades together. Not many anticipate or have any g

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A Parent’s Love

A Parent’s Love

A thought occurred to me this morning, what is like for the parents of the chronically ill?  I have too many diagnoses to properly name, but the two prominent ones are Fibromyalgia and Lupus.  I first started showing symptoms of chronic pain around twelve years old, but did not actually have anyth

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Diamonds, Capes and Spoons……YOU are a superhero too.

Diamonds, Capes and Spoons……YOU are a superhero too.

It wasn’t long ago when I heard Rob Thomas’ song “Her Diamonds” for the first time.  It was in the car after frantically changing the channel from a Disney star that shall not be named *coughmileycyruscough* much to the objection of my two Hannah Montana obsessed pre-teens in the back seat.

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Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 7-13, 2010

Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 7-13, 2010

PULSE of NY Kicks off Patient Safety Awareness Week Medical errors claim more lives each year in America than breast cancer, AIDS and car accidents - combined. PULSE of NY has been working to reduce medical errors by helping patients and healthcare providers communicate more clearly. Each

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