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Your Guide to Taking Prescription Drugs
Taking prescription drugs is simple right? Just take them as prescribed, and everything should be fine. If only it were so. Making sure you take your medications properly can be a hard habit to get into. Taking new prescriptions can get very complicated. And depending...
Keeping Your Busy Family Organized – Ready…5…4..3..2.1
Is family organization a myth, like unicorns? Or are organizational skills something people are born with, like red hair? Neither, anybody can do this, even me. Having a busy family can be chaos at the best of times, but when you have kids, pets, aging parents and...
Hospitals & Doctors
Caregiving & Friendship
Visit A Sick Friend
What do you do when you visit a sick friend? When your friend or loved one is sick or injured, either at the hospital or at home, visiting is important. But it can be awkward and uncomfortable. Rest and recuperation can be depressing. Once you've marathon watched a...
Taking Someone To The Doctor
If have an intimidating medical appointment, it is always wise to take a loved one. When you are in pain or worried, you miss stuff. You forget details. You start thinking about the ramifications of one statement and miss the next 3. Having a backup with you is great...
3 Important Lessons From A Great Doctor
Dr. Salter was my orthopedic surgeon, and a very special man. He set my expectations for what it means to be a patient, and what it should mean to be a doctor. It probably seems strange to love and admire a man I barely knew, but many of his patients will understand....
Rest & Recuperation
Happiness & Resilience
Your Guide to Taking Prescription Drugs
Taking prescription drugs is simple right? Just take them as prescribed, and everything should be fine. If only it were so. Making sure you take your medications properly can be a hard habit to get into. Taking new prescriptions can get very complicated. And depending...
Creative & Mobile Home Office Ideas
Working from home is a challenge. It can be wonderful and freeing, but it can also be isolating and stressful. Much of my experience working from home has not been by choice, but for health reasons. Most of the information I find about home offices don't apply to me...
How to Buy & Customize Crutches
You need crutches and want to know where to start? If you are recuperating from injury or surgery, and need them for a couple of weeks or months, you want to make the right choice without breaking the bank. Crutches are not all the same and choosing wisely will make...
Family & Home
Keeping Your Busy Family Organized – Ready…5…4..3..2.1
Is family organization a myth, like unicorns? Or are organizational skills something people are born with, like red hair? Neither, anybody can do this, even me. Having a busy family can be chaos at the best of times, but when you have kids, pets, aging parents and...
How To: Personal Assistant for the Working Mom
This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase from these links, I will get a small commission. As an average working mom, I never saw myself as someone with a personal assistant, but I have learned a lot since then. Welcome to the world of personal...
5 Bad Excuses for Doing Everything Yourself
There are not enough hours in a day. And there never will be. You're coming home from work, a million thoughts bouncing around in your head. That meeting with your boss in the morning, the emails you need to reply to, and that phone call you've been avoiding. But this...