Don’t want to read the whole story? Scroll down to the bottom to watch my 2016 Stanford Medicine X Ignite Talk. My health story is a long and fairly complicated story. A tale of a girl who went through most of her life undiagnosed. Suffering many different symptoms that were never connected. It wasn’t until …
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This is the second post in a series of Dr. Siegel posts regarding his keynote speech and master class I attended at Medx. You can read the first Dr Siegel post here! I’ve discussed numerous times with other patients how important a connection with your doctor is. Unfortunately, the health care model we have today …
Take a deep breath and center yourself to be present in this moment. I had two favorite lectures during Medx – Dr. Dan Siegel’s Master Class Workshop and Dr. Bonnie Feldman’s Autoimmune presentation. This post is the first of a few that I’ve written about what I’ve learned from Dr. Siegel. I was accepted into …
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“I want you to amputate my leg.” This isn’t something that most people will say in their lifetime and seriously mean it. The strength this man has makes me feel so proud to have met him. His story has opened my eyes to a whole world of health that I wasn’t even aware of. You …
Head Up, Heart Strong. That was Matthew Dudley’s message and a key phrase that I’ll always remember. As I sat there watching this live at medx, I had tears in my eyes and chills all over my body. As I sat here at home watching it, I again had chills and was just so overly …
My Grandpa passed away on September 1st, 2014 of lung cancer. I left his wake to catch my plane out to Stanford to attend Medicine X. When Janet walked out on the stage and gave this ignite talk I was speechless. I had chills, I had tears in my eyes, I had an explosion of …
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 …
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 …