by Susan | Feb 18, 2020 | Awareness, Caregiving, Communications, Medical
Last week I found a tiny lump under my right arm. At first, I was going to wait and see what it did. That lasted a day and I called to see if I could get in to see my primary care physician even though it had only been a little over a week since I’d seen her. They...
by Susan | Feb 4, 2020 | Awareness
This has been coming up a lot for me lately. Why do I procrastinate? For me it’s tied to perfectionism. I have many ways to procrastinate, doing laundry, eating, cleaning house, or the dreaded social media. There are also the things that look like work, researching...
by Susan | Jan 28, 2020 | Awareness, Caregiving, Relationships
Isn’t work part of life? We all try to achieve balance between our work life and our personal life. I don’t believe an equal balance can be attained. We can only do our best at not letting either take over. Last week a friend posted the following quote on FaceBook: I...
by Susan | Jan 14, 2020 | Awareness, Communications, Medical, Relationships
I’ve heard people complain that their doctor was more interested in themselves than their patient. I’m not going to lie I’ve felt like this myself. When Mike was first diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease it felt like the doctor was giddy about making such a...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2019 | Awareness, EGC, Gestalt
I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic lately. It probably has something to do with the holidays. Then this came up in my memories on FaceBook. I posted the following on December 31, 2017 along with the picture at the right. As I have for the last 4 years I came into the...
by Susan | Dec 18, 2019 | Awareness, EGC
Every year we get a chance to look back at the past year and see what we have done. Maybe what we haven’t gotten done and decide if we would like to carry that forward into the next year. This year is the end of a decade so it’s a great time to write our plans for the...
