I saw my Pain Management Doctor last week. It is time for a medication change due to my ever-increasing pain. I don't take medication changes lightly; the process can be particularly non-pleasant at times, depending on what you are doing with the change. This decision has been awhile coming, right alongside the pain that just keeps coming. My choices are few. I need a partner to help me with this.


Enter the kindest, most professional, (without being like a robot), empathetic, ...

In this article from the site: http://www.nahc.org, which is the National Association of Home Care and Hospice; it is noted that the nurses out making house calls cover more miles per week than a UPS driver! I found this so fascinating because I worked as a Hospice Nurse for years and used to put 120 miles/day some days I was on call. Nuts!

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Just for a moment; imagine suffering with pain on a daily basis. What is it like? How does it make an individual feel?



Pain can give ALL of us a negative attitude, many times mixed with other emotions: depression, anxiety, anger, frustration. Those who do not suffer from Chronic Pain can easily look back over times in which they had acute pain from a fall, a cut, (even paper cuts hurt quite a bit!), a stubbed toe, or a finger caught in a door being closed; and remember ...

As October breezes it's way into Southern California, so does the very breezy Santa Ana Winds, a novelty to our area, and a firefighter's worst nightmare. Add some very dry brush, a lack of rain, (again), to the area, and still summer-like temps of up to 100 in the Valleys and Inland areas.


The first set of fires threatening homes, people, animals; started almost as if on schedule. To let us all know it was time to look at our kits for evacuation, whether it is for a fire, ...

This post may open the eyes of many patients that must visit the Pharmacy often, picking up prescribed medications for pain, or other illnesses. Many of us just run in or drive through, pick them up, pay, and leave.

When you pay for those medications, and leave the pharmacy, you are now responsible for what is in your bag. How do you really know that your meds are in that already closed and stapled bag? Have any of you ever gone home to find that not only are the wrong medications ...