Disorders Of Breathing - Articles
Ashley 's Home
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Sherry C
That was her third trip to Sickkids emergency this month. It was her shortest stay. The doctors and nurses are starting to recognize us as nice as that is it's not a good thing. Ashley was sent home with Ventalin for an inhaler and a steroid called Prednisolone this medication they use to treat asthma which we knew Ashley doesn't have. She has ...
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On Triggers
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Carrie A.
When I was taught about avoiding ED triggers in treatment, I learned a lot of the usual: stay away from fashion magazines, the crazy aunt/sister/cousin/uncle who's always on a diet, throw out your "sick" clothes, etc. All of these are very good things to do, and I've made changes in all of these areas in my life to avoid being bombarded ...
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Maybe you've noticed...
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Steph
I have taken a bit of a break from the blogging world. I have still been reading everyones blogs, but I am a firm believer that we all need to take a step back sometimes just to put everything in perspective. I've had a hell of a year. To think that it has only been a year just blows my mind. It's so hard to block out everything that has happened a ...
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Sudden Cardiac Death in Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies: Sarcoidosis, Scleroderma, Amyloidosis,...
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Jan
By S. Lubitz, S. Goldbarg, D. MehtaSarcoidosis, scleroderma, amyloidosis, and hemachromatosis are systemic infiltrative disorders that commonly affect the heart. Owing to their potential for diffuse organ involvement, these diseases may present with myriad clinical manifestations. Conduction system abnormalities are common, and each of these disor ...
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My Ridiculously Long IMAZ 2009 Race Report
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left.right.repeat
Ironman Arizona 2009 Race Report What a year!!! Bear with me as this will be long – hey, it’s a long race. We start the year with my first full marathon, announcement of a corporate merger, our daughter’s college graduation and subsequent job search and relocation. Then it was a Half Ironman that rained the ENTIRE race, a bike c ...
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Cautious Optimism
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Shauna M.
It's been a week since the announcement of CCSVI -chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency - and sadly, I'm detecting dissension in the ranks. Like many announcements, or press releases for that matter, that declare a "new" treatment/cure/theory about any disease or condition, there are people who jump on the bandwagon and those who di ...
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Health and Evolutionary Reasoning – The PaNu Method
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Kurt G Harris MD
Our current ideas of "health" or "optimal health" are modern concepts. Although evolving over millenia, in current form they are specific to our culture and are part of our "language game" - to borrow Ludwig Wittgenstein's term. One definition of a language game is an internally coherent system of values and concepts t ...
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C goal
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Clare
Thank goodness for attainable C goals. At one point I thought if I trained I might be able to pull off an 8:08 pace for a 40:40 5 mile turkey trot finish (A goal). Clearly I was delusional, both about my commitment to training and about my willingness to push. Throw in the fact the the entire race was spent dodging and weaving around slower peop ...
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Caregiver Stress Getting To You? Try My 3 Day Cure
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Carol O'Dell
I call it my 3 day cure. When I was caregiving my mom who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s –and I was a sandwich generation mom–which for me meant having 2 teenagers and one pre-teen (all girls to boot), stress could sometimes mount to a hair-pulling, screaming and crying at the same time fiasco. I wanted to walk out and sla ...
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