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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...
Hospitals & Doctors
Caregiving & Friendship
Surgery – Overcoming Embarrassment
One major battle when one is recuperating from surgery is to overcome embarrassment. People create an enormous amount of stress for themselves by keeping their worries a secret. To get best advice, you need to be able to be completely honest and open with your...
After Surgery – Discharge Day
After surgery and healing, there is freedom. My favorite hospital day is always discharge day. Typically I know it is coming ahead of time. They will usually tell me I can go home the following day provided certain criteria is met. When I had my hip replacements, I...
After Surgery – Hospital Routine
Odds are that your first day in your hospital room is a blur. You don't get there until halfway through the day and you are pretty out of it, so your first real taste of hospital life is likely your first morning. Rule 1: Sleep is Constantly Interrupted This is not...
Rest & Recuperation
Happiness & Resilience
Your Happy List – Staying Positive During Recuperation
When things in my life get a little dark, working on my Happy List keeps me going, even on my worst day. It is my source of inspiration and motivation. It goes everywhere with me; is the source of my positive attitude and gets me out of bed in the morning. It...
How to Treat Incontinence When Recuperating
With the number of surgeries I've had, and my openness about my experiences, many people approach me with their most embarrassing questions. So I have had more conversations about bowel and bladder control than I can count. I wish it weren't so awkward for people to...
Making a Temporary Wheelchair Comfortable
If you are in a wheelchair most or all the time, hopefully it is customized and tricked out for your needs. But if it is only for a month or two there is no way most of us will go to that effort or expense. So what are the interim solutions? The temporary means by...
Family & Home
Your Guide to Outsource Christmas
Outsource Christmas?!? It probably sounds ridiculous, but how many of your traditions are actually chores that you don't enjoy anymore? Do you scramble around the month of December trying to get it all done before your family and friends descend? Meanwhile, at the...
Best Christmas EVER! and a Christmas Planner
Don't forget to read to the end and get a Christmas planner. Ask people their best Christmas and they will tell you about their childhood, or their children. I would like to tell you it was my daughter's first Christmas, but she spent the week vomiting, so that is...
Managing Your Household Checklists
Household checklists are they single best tool for keeping control of a busy home. Household management binders, folders, or something similar will save your sanity especially when life is changing fastest. If you are considering outsourcing any of your house work,...