Archive for the 'Health Info' Category
Are you finding that looking for a job when you live with a chronic illness is daunting, overwhelming, depressing . . . or a challenge that you feel ready to take on? This question popped into my head when I read Em’s (chronicillnesssurvival) comment to Joan’s last post, (Disability leave caused one woman to re-evaluate [...]
In one of the chapters I wrote for our book, Building Your Support Team, I told a story of the time I “fired” a gastroenterologist because he took a directive approach with me regarding a medicine he prescribed that I had strong concerns about. I also wrote about how my next gastro doctor prescribed the [...]
Women’s Health Week
Last week was National Women’s Health Week – but don’t worry if you missed it. The site is there (Society for Women’s Health Research) and you can still find out all that they do – through the coming year and more, I think. It seems to me that this begs the question: What’s up with [...]
My complimentary copies of our book, Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working Girlfriend! came today. (Unfortunately, Joan’s didn’t and she needs some for a speech she’s making next week so we’re scrambling.) It’s almost (but not quite) as exciting as coming home from the hospital with a newborn! The publisher gives us some free [...]
According to Jay Cutler’s business manager, the Denver Bronco’s Quarterback is, “managing his disease {type 1 Diabetes diagnosed two weeks ago} and in no way is his football career jeopardized.” Wow. He accomplished a lot with these few words. 1. We’re told unequivocally that the 25 year old athlete, who until two weeks ago knew [...]
The topic of health care and medical coverage came up this last Saturday when meeting with my colleagues in a coaches’ mastermind group. All of us are self-employed. Half of us has had some significant health issue to deal with this year. Try to picture this motley group. One was walking slowly with the use [...]
I’ve been spending this past few weeks writing about and thinking about the value of vacations to self-employed professionals, and reading pathetic statistics about how so many people – employees and business owners – are failing to take them with much regularity. I’m even running a free tele-seminar program about taking vacations, as it’s a [...]
Because I work from home and do 98% of my work on the telephone with the support of email communications, I spend a lot of time on my computer. A few weeks ago I was suddenly overwhelmed. I review marketing plans for people in my Get Clients Now! tele-class programs. With 2 programs running, I [...]
A couple of days ago one of our readers asked why the focus on women, and would there be something for men. I wasn’t really thinking about the question when I was watching TV this week, but an answer may have been revealed on 3 separate occasions. First of all, (not discussed on these shows) [...]
We devoted an entire chapter of Keep Working, Girlfriend! talking about the nature of autoimmune illness, how it impacts women, and what happens in your body to make it go so haywire. It might seem like overkill for a book focused on working, so I thought I’d explain why we kicked off the book with [...]
