In addition to managing my own business as a healthcare advocate, you may also know that I am a mother of five and the guardian of my mother, who has dementia and lives with me (with an amazing live-in carer btw!). I get asked about self-care a lot. From friends. From clients. “How should I …
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Moving to another country can be scary. Moving to another country and having to take new medication, can be terrifying. One of the questions I always ask my clients moving to Israel, is what medications are you currently taking? Because Israel has a wildly different health system than the United States, and what you’ve been …
To test or not test, that is the TRUE question. Case in point. A 37 year old woman goes the ER, complaining of uncomfortable pressure and some pain in her chest. She has no history of heart disease, high blood pressure, and has a regular menstrual cycle. She describes the pain as sharp, comes and …
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This post was written by one of my favorite clients and truly special person…who deals with chronic pain on a daily basis. Chronic ill health, disability and fatigue: Where did my energy go? Dr. Peter Phillips A few months ago during yet another arthritis flare, I happened across a set of self help articles talking …
When I first made aliyah, ‘back when dinosaurs roamed the earth’, as my kids would say, Bituach Leumi was considered an opaque box of unpleasantness that was out to hide the money you had coming to you. Okay, slight hyperbole, but you get the picture. It was not a well-liked institution. In 2012, the government …
What did I learn from my mother? When your parent is first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it’s almost a relief. Finally, there’s a reason, an explanation for the ‘off’ behavior. Ten years into the journey, the diagnosis becomes a bit of a grind. It’s familiar, doable, but leaves an air of disappointment at every realization …
I love checklists. I really love checklists that can predict things. The academic world calls them risk scores. I believe in risk scores. After all, I wrote my master’s thesis on them. However, I am a bit skeptical of a risk score that can predict dementia. Don’t get me wrong. I think we need this. …
Binging a series on Netflix is obviously a stress release, and often my job revolves around helping people who are ill, or overwhelmed, or suffering, and often all of those emotions. So, releasing stress is an important part of my day. But I can’t turn off my patient advocate head, even during those moments.
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