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mars 9, 2023Like
“I’m Waiting for a Kidney Transplant. Again.”
When June Jones says she wakes up early most days, she means before-the-birds early. The retired grandmother of four is up before dawn (sometimes as early as 2 a.m.) several days a week for dialysis. She crawls out of bed and creeps down the hall to her spare bedroom, where she has a hemodialysis machine set up in her Ottawa home. Jones hooks up the chest catheter, lies down and starts a four-hour-long treatment. I usually cant sleep, she says, best
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Everything You Don’t Know About Kidney Disease (But Should)
The kidneys are as vital to our health and well-being as the heart or lungs. But chances are you rarely give them a second thoughtor even know how they work. The kidneys are underappreciated in terms of all that they do, says Caitlin Hesketh, a nephrologist at the Ottawa Hospital. They filter all of the blood in the body (at a rate of about one litre per minute), balancing minerals like potassium and sodium and removing waste products and excess best
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How Does Mental Health Illnesses Affect Family Relationships?
Any tension in the life of a family member upends the whole family life and relationships. And I get that. If I feel anxious, there’s a high chance that my anxiety will make my entire family feel anxious and stressed. Some of that stress would be on me, but it’s bound to happen. After all, “misery loves company.” Did you know that according to WHO, one in every five adults struggles with some mental health disorder? It’s the statistics speaking! calmsage
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Understanding Post Divorce Trauma | How To Cope
According to the United States Census, 827,261 marriages ended in divorce in one year (2019) alone. In fact, according to the overall statistics the global divorce rate has increased by approximately 250% since the 1960s. We often talk about how beautiful marriages are and how wonderful it is to see two souls unite. Along with that, we have all grown to understand the importance of divorce as well. If you people are not able to lead a happy life together, calmsage
mars 9, 2023Like
Michelle Elman on how to learn to ask for help
Why do we feel so much pressure to be self-reliant, and how come it is so hard to accept a helping hand? Columnist Michelle Elman delves into our curious obsession with independence, and the life-changing realisation that allowed her to welcome support We live in a culture that encourages us to be strong and independent, but is it possible that we have gone too far? When there is so much pressure to do everything yourself, is it any wonder that happi
mars 8, 2023Like
Drew Barrymore Said She Got Dumped By Her Therapist Over Alcohol-Use After Her Divorce
Of all the break-ups you might encounter in your life, breaking up with your mental health provider can be one of the most uniquely challenging. Drew Barrymore opened up about her experience being “let go” by her longtime therapist Barry Michels during her 2016 divorce — noting how her relationship with alcohol at the time played a role in that parting and eventually led to her choosing to get sober again in 2019. “[My therapist] just said, ‘I can’t do this shek
mars 8, 2023Like
5 Women With Disabilities Who Made History
Women have been making history for centuries; for some, this was the only choice they had. For women with disabilities in particular, it was either live the way others expected them to or fight for the lives they knew they (and all people with disabilities) deserved. Anyone with a disability can tell you they’ve faced discrimination at least once in their lives. Whether it’s trying to figure out how to get into a building without adequate mobility accommodations or getting shek
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VNA Health Care Poised To Expand Footprint In Chicago Suburbs
VNA Health Care is planning several projects in Aurora, Ill., including the expansion of two facilities and the building of a health center, according to newsbreak.com. VNA’s Indian Avenue facility would add 15 exam rooms and expand services, including obstetrics, prenatal care, and pediatric services and family practices. The project is slated to be completed in 2024. Plans also include expanding the clinic on Villa Street in Aurora and adding a school-linked health center within the West Aurora School District healthcare
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Survey Captures Access Control Trends In Healthcare Facilities
This article originally appeared in Campus Safety, published by Emerald, the publisher of Healthcare Design. The numbers from this year’s Campus Safety Access Control and Lockdown Survey have been crunched, and the May 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, appears to have prompted many K-12 schools to pay much closer attention to campus security. However, the Uvalde tragedy appears to not have impacted institutions of higher education as much. Colleges are lagging way behind their K-12 peers healthcare
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Top 8 Healthy Sleep Habits
March is Sleep Awareness Month. Do you toss and turn all night? Do you wake up before dawn and can’t fall back to sleep? Do you have trouble drifting off? As women age and experience different phases of life, hormonal changes can disrupt both sleep quantity and quality, impacting mental and physical health. The good news? There’s a lot you can do to improve your sleep with just a few tweaks to your lifestyle. According to a recent study, midlife Healthy
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Six times as likely to die by suicide: the Traveller mental health crisis
It’s time to take a hard look at the reality faced by many in the community “I’m from the north-west of England, a little town called Morecambe Bay, not far from the Lake District. My family are Showmen Travellers. My mam, she grew up around the Bolton area and her family all had fairgrounds and travelled around the whole of the UK. My dad, he actually came originally from a circus and fairground background. They met and hit it off happi
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What is trauma-informed nutrition and how can we use it to support recovery?
Exploring the complex ways traumatic experiences impact us, and the essential reason why practitioners and clients must be aware of it Discussions concerning trauma tend to centre around the mental, emotional, and physical impacts of traumatic events. But in recent years, this has expanded to explore the relationship between nutrition, trauma, and physical and mental health. Let’s take a closer look. What is trauma? The charity Mind speaks of emotional or physiological trauma as the result of very stressful, frightening, happi