What are you grateful for?
It’s only human nature to feel so challenged that life seems like one long, hard road. With nothing going right and everything going wrong.
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Prescriptions are expensive. If you don’t have insurance, you may be making some tough decisions about your medications. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need through the program that is right for them. Many will get their medications free or nearly free. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance will help you find the program that’s right for you, free of charge.
Bedside Manner? How do you define it? And how important is it?
Get lost!
One of the best ways to deal with stress is to get lost. That is, to get lost inside of something that you enjoy doing.
Remind yourself that you are a work in progress.
Blaming the victim
If you are a caregiver, it’s hard not to feel helpless when the person you are caring for has bad days. You don’t know what to do and so you feel scared, as any human being would. But as a result, you may unintentionally slip into to “blaming the victim.”
Off to the beach.
Need to run away to gather your thoughts, calm your jangled nerves, and get back to your center? Maybe it’s time to escape to the beach!
Hospitals and helplessness.
After suffering too long with a hand infection, I finally reported to an emergency room last week, and was immediately admitted to the hospital. I was quickly reminded of something that I tell my clients: being in a hospital is like entering into another culture, with different clothing, rules, language. You ae the patient and you are the outsider. It has been a long time since I felt this helpless. You wait, you worry, you put up with a lot of discomfort. Things happen on someone else’s schedule. You have minimal choice about what you eat, if any.&
Sweating the small stuff
It always really annoys me when I hear the phrase, "don’t sweat the small stuff." First, I don’t like cliches. Second, and more important, it usually being said by someone who doesn’t understand what the person they are saying it to is going through. Caregivers, for example. Caregiving is all about sweating the small stuff, being there to manage the little details that contribute to quality of life for the person you are taking care of. Making sure a favorite snack is available. Giving them a call in the middle of the day. Double and tripl
Frustration
These days, daily life gives us any number of reasons for our frustration button to be pushed hard. You name it, the weather, the economy, our jobs, family… and facing the day-to-day challenges of a medical condition.