Archive for March 2019

Sometimes in life we tell ourselves that we’ll be “alright” without this or that. While this may be true of some things, you should not take on this approach when it comes to being a caregiver. How ever you fell into the field of caregiving you need to be certified if you are going to…

More at… https://rx4caregivers.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/a-must-read-for-caregivers-advice-for-future-corpses-book/ Since I have not read the hot-off-the-presses Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying,  am sharing a link to my favorite online  review  – https://tricycle.org/magazine/sallie-tisdale-advice-for-future-corpses/. My thanks to Parul Seh… Read More

Working with their Mayo health care provider in Family Medicine, Hazel Sargent’s family is tackling the preschooler’s diagnosis of celiac disease head-on. For most of her young life, 3-year-old Hazel Sargent of Garden City, Minnesota, had tummy troubles. She was frequently constipated and never a big eater. Then one day in the spring of 2017,…

When a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer, Lee Dueringer and his care team at Mayo Clinic embarked on a comprehensive treatment plan that quelled the disease without significantly disrupting his life. A suspicious lump that appeared on his neck in August 2017 was the first sign that anything was amiss for…

Determined to understand the reason for the strange hitch in his stride, marathon runner Pat Foley pushed forward for years until he reached the office of a Mayo Clinic movement neurologist. An avid marathoner, Pat Foley saw running as a way of life. The 70-year-old Northfield, Minnesota, resident has logged more than 80,000 miles on…