On Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended leader training for another evidence-based healthy aging workshop. This one was Chronic Pain Self-Management, which is a variant (and very similar to) Chronic Disease Self-Management, developed by Stanford University. So the training was easy, and a little boring, since so much was similar to material I already knew and…
I had some lovely nurses today. One took care of me while I was waiting, brought me diet coke helped me adjust the chair to put my feet up, and kept me posted on when I would be going in. The other was with me through the procedure and gave me a running commentary about…
If I can keep Pekoe off my keyboard long enough to let me type a few sentences, I just wanted to let everyone know that this morning’s “procedure” at Lahey has been completed with a minimum of discomfort. After a day or so of soreness, I’ll be able to tell if it had any effect.…
Tomorrow morning I’ll be going to Lahey Clinic to get a corticosteroid shot in my thigh to see if it will help the bursitis I’ve been dealing with for two years now. I tried this once before, and it helped for a while, but I had it done at a place where they didn’t use…
We had an excellent 4th session of the diabetes workshop this morning. We’d missed last week due to weather, but had a good turnout today, plus three student nurses observing. One participant reported losing several pounds since the start of the workshop (“I wasn’t really trying, but I guess cutting down on sweets helped.”). Ya…