One of my favorite sessions I attended at #medx was an autoimmune presentation by Dr. Bonnie Feldman (@DrBonnie360). I’m pretty sure my neck hurt from shaking my head in agreement the entire time she was talking. In her presentation, @DrBonnie360 talked about how we need to add an integrative layer in our healthcare system and …
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. WWWOOOOOWWWWWWWW Throughout my life I’ve been on and off different medications. There are a few times where I had to slowly ween off of a certain drug to make sure I appropriately detoxed it from my system. Usually it was a pretty painless experience and if I did have a side …
Going out to eat is kind of a stressful event now a days. Autoimmune patient food choices can be verrrryyyyyyy limited. I get kinda creeped out when reading menus where ONE of the dishes will be “all natural, no hormone” chicken. Sooooooo does that mean all the other chicken options are not natural and use …
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Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about the Union Project, but had never been there. I didn’t even know exactly where it was. When I realized that the Body Love Tour was taking place there I was excited to check it out. The Union Project is an old church that was taken on by the …
This year at Medx ePatient Carly (@CarlyRM) presented a panel on the pain scale and how it doesn’t necessarily transfer over to chronically ill patients. I was one of her test subjects and for 3 months submitted pictures of myself. These pictures were matched up to the pain scale number I was feeling that day (1-10 …
Today I’m starting a weekly post series called #Medx Mondays! Since I experienced so much during my trip to Palo Alto, I decided to chop up my take aways in, as @AuntieStress said, ‘bite size chunks’. So, drummmmmmm rollllllll please . . . My family is completely amazing. They’re so supportive and honestly would do …
As I’m settling back into the routine of my daily life, I feel overwhelmed with emotions when I reflect on the past 2 weeks. My Grandpa was diagnosed with lung cancer in March (we believe it started last summer) and decided he didn’t want any treatment. How can you argue with a 93-year-old man who …
Elementary school & crutches edition My knee problems started back in elementary school and I had my first knee surgery in 5th grade. Every year after that I had a brace, was on crutches, in PT, had to sit out of gym, or SOMETHING! There was always something going on. For a while I thought …
Well, it’s finally here! The California sun. Stanford University’s campus. MedicineX. Last September I was following @hurtblogger’s tweets about Medx. I told myself I was going to go next year because it just seemed so informative, collaborative, amazing and definitely something I wanted to be apart of. This year, I’m here with her as my …
[su_pullquote]”It’s not about always being in a good mood, but trying to just overcome, to prevail, to triumph, even when everything inside you is saying no. To get yourself to yes, to that place of yes. Find your yes.” – Bethenny Frankel[/su_pullquote] It’s often in the most stressful times of our lives that we’re told …