Being An Asshole Is Optional

April 5, 2013.Reading time 20 minutes.

I am interrupting Health Activist Writers Month Challenge to say that some people just don’t understand and some people are just assholes. My daughter was invited to a birthday celebration for a friend that’s turning 13. It will be a great celebration that involves a limo taking the birthday girl, her friends and her family […]

Sharing Is Fun, It’s What We Like To Do

April 4, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

Today is Day 4 of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge Today’s challenge: Create a “care page” – a list of your best resources that someone who is newly diagnosed could go to when starting to advocate for themselves or a loved one. Have I mentioned how incredibly disorganized I am? Being so disorganized is […]

The 5 (oops 13) Things You Should Know

April 2, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

Today is Day 2 of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge. Still not signed up – what are you waiting for? There are millions (or 26 according to how many poor souls follow my blog) of readers waiting to hear your story. Start HERE – you are only a day late. Todays Prompt: Introduce your […]

Black Hole

April 1, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

Today is day one of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge. The HAWMC is a month-long even put on by WEGO Health. Each day there is a new prompt health activist bloggers are asked to write about. Even though today is day one it is not to late to join in on the fun – […]

HAWMC

March 20, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

Greetings. I suck. (Yes I’m self-deprecating today) I haven’t blogged for an extended period of time. Sadly this comes at a time when I have also applied for a scholarship to the Stanford Medicine X ePatient conference (thus – if you are with the Medicine X scholarship department please see older posts and know that […]