by Susan | Dec 5, 2019 | Awareness, Communications, Relationships
Have you gotten the idea that I wake up with music playing in my head? It happens almost every morning. (you can read more about music in my life here, here, here, and here) This morning it was You’re Only Human (Second Wind) by Billy Joel. It got me to thinking about...
by Susan | Nov 21, 2019 | Awareness, Communications, Medical, Relationships
This is likely a different take on continuity of care than you’re used to. A few weeks ago, I touched on why building trust with your patients and their caregivers is important. Not only for doctors this applies to every service professional. When someone trusts a...
by Susan | Nov 14, 2019 | Caregiving, EGC, Gestalt, Horses, Relationships
​ I woke this morning with this song playing in my head. I always think of it when someone tells me that I can’t give from an empty cup. Over the five-and-a-half years that I was helping Mike negotiate his illnesses I heard many times and from many people some version...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2019 | Caregiving, Communications, Medical, Relationships
I feel blessed that Mike and I were able to work with such great doctors. Feeling like doctors are not superhuman and better than us can help us to know, like, and trust them. Even seeing it in the smallest ways Early in his illness Mike had been in the hospital in...
by Susan | Oct 24, 2019 | Awareness
​Last October I wrote a post about how I feel that other cancers besides breast cancer need awareness and funding. We see a lot about breast cancer especially in October. Two years ago, in October was the beginning of my journey with breast cancer. My first almost...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2019 | Caregiving, EGC, Gestalt, Horses, Medical, Relationships
You’ve heard this about doctors. Believe me they are no better at it than we are as caregivers. We tend to focus on our loved one who needs our care and put off our own care. Frankly, I was very fortunate that I didn’t fall into that category. I had my almost yearly...
by Susan | Sep 25, 2019 | EGC, Gestalt, Horses
I’ve just returned from the annual Touched By A Horse® Summit. It is a time to reconnect with old friends and a time to meet new ones. The trend of the graduate session seemed to be that many people had many ups and downs in the last year. It’s a time we...
by Susan | Sep 11, 2019 | Awareness, Caregiving, Communications, Horses, Medical, Relationships
Do you feel like you can make a connection with your doctor? When I was growing up my dad was the only doctor in our county. To this day I still have people tell me that they wish he was still their doctor. He hasn’t practiced medicine in over 18 years – that’s...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2019 | Awareness, Caregiving, Communications, EGC, Horses, Relationships
For years I’ve struggled with authenticity. I haven’t felt like I fit in here and have tried to figure out just who I really am. I’m much more liberal minded than most people here. I’ve always liked wine instead of beer. I have the soul of an artist. At my first...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2019 | Caregiving, Communications, EGC, Horses, Medical, Relationships
I had a couple of people tell me that I would become attached to and miss the people who did my chemo and radiation treatments. Frankly, I can only remember a few of their names. I can see their faces, but I certainly don’t miss them.On the other hand, I do miss...
