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Limited space for online chat about holiday eating and pain

Marijke Durning, RN — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:57:57 +0000

Press Release

Online Chat with BRENDA MURDOUGH MSN, RN-C
Military/Veterans Initiative Coordinator
American Pain Foundation

Sugar Plums, Figgie Pudding, even Grandma’s Fruitcake: Can Holiday Eating Affect Your Pain?

Tuesday, December 16th at 8:00p.m. EST
LIMITED SPACE – MAKE YOUR RESERVATION TODAY!!

Please join us December 16 at 8 PM ET for a fun and informative live online chat presented by Brenda Murdough MSN, RN-C, the Coordinator of the Military /Veterans Initiative for APF. She will be talking about different foods and different pain diagnoses and how the two are related. Especially during this time of parties and family gatherings, you want to be sure you make food choices that will keep you feeling your best.

Brenda currently serves as the American Pain Foundation Coordinator of the Military/Veterans Initiative where she advocates for the pain management needs of veterans, military and their caregivers. In this position she provides information, education, resources and support to members of the military and veterans’ community that are affected by pain, doing outreach and collaboration with other organizations, and developing and supervising staff to assist with this work. Brenda is also a pain management nurse specialist at the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, NH.

There is limited space for this chat, so please go to Military/Veteran Section of PainAid for reservation instructions. If you do not already have a login name and password for PainAid, please click here first to register for access to PainAid. If you have previously registered with PainAid and have forgotten your password, click here. If you have difficulty accessing PainAid or have any questions, please email Chats@painfoundation.org for assistance.

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, holiday eating and pain, pain management

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Limited space for online chat about holiday eating and pain

Surviving the holidays if you live with chronic pain

Marijke Durning, RN — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:36:10 +0000

Living with chronic pain can put a cramp in anyone’s style and even more so during the holidays. I wrote about this last year, sharing a few tips on how to get through the holidays and minimizing you pain in some cases (Avoiding pain during the holidays ).

Sue Falkner Wood also wrote a good post on the topic: Simplify the holidays in a life with chronic pain. I encourage you to pop over there for a read.

Do you have any suggestion for making holidays a little less painful? Please share them with us.

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, avoiding pain, living with chronic pain

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Surviving the holidays if you live with chronic pain

If you have lupus or other diseases, do you know about the Spoon Theory?

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:34:53 +0000

I just read about the Spoon Theory, written by Christine Miserandino, who writes the blog, But You Don’t Look Sick.

One day, when Christine was out with a friend, she was trying to describe what it was like to be living with lupus. To demonstrate her point, she used a handful of spoons. Those spoons represented what she could do – no spoons mean no more could be done. It’s a wonderful way of explaining what it’s like to have a chronic illness like lupus, but also others, like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, even for those who are receiving treatment for cancer and other diseases.

To read Christine’s Spoon Theory, please visit her site: The Spoon Theory.

Sometimes, a simple thing like this is all it takes to help someone understand what it’s like to live with a chronic illness or chronic pain.

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, living with chronic illness

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If you have lupus or other diseases, do you know about the Spoon Theory?

Post recommendation: Managing your chronic pain

Marijke Durning, RN — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:54 +0000

Many times I come across a good article or post that is really not worth me trying to explain to you. Instead, it’s better that I point you to the original piece so you can really get what the writer wants you to see.

I’ve introduced you to Disaboom.com before. There is a lot of great information there. Today, there is a post on managing your chronic pain by Dr. Anthony Guarino. I suggest you have look at it if you are living with chronic pain.

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, chronic pain, living with chronic pain, dr anthony guarino

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Post recommendation: Managing your chronic pain

Help My Hurt and Autism Vox make a top 100 list

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:59:14 +0000

Please forgive the pat on the back but it’s exciting for me. Help My Hurt and Autism Vox, another b5media Health & Wellness blog, are both listed as two of Top 100 Pediatric Health Blogs over at Nursing Assistant Central.

I was a bit surprised because I consider Womb Within more about kids, never really thought of Help My Hurt that way. Nice way to start the day to have someone tell you they think that you’re doing a good job!

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, top 100, pediatric health blogs

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Help My Hurt and Autism Vox make a top 100 list

Wandering around the web

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:51:35 +0000

It’s that time again, time to introduce you to some new (to me) blogs and sites that I think you may find interesting or helpful. As always, if you have any you’d like to suggest, please leave a comment or email me (email is in the sidebar) so we can all have a look.

First, I found this site, Joint Pain Blog. This blog covers many aspects of joint pain from the hand to the foot and everything in between.

Pain and the Law was developed by Saint Louis University and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

Voices of People in Pain is a collection of videos of people who are living with pain, from the American Pain Foundation.

And for people who have an interest in fibromyalgia, here is a site that you may find interesting: Get Well Health.

Enjoy your visits!

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Tags: pain blog, chronic pain blog, living with pain, fibromyalgia

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Wandering around the web

It’s Living With Pain blog carnival time again

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:42:04 +0000

Welcome to October’s edition of Living With Pain blog carnival.

I had some interesting submissions this month. Unfortunately, some weren’t even remotely connected to pain so they had to be deleted. If you know people who have blogs about pain, please encourage them to become part of this blog carnival – it’s a great way to get more readers.

Carole Gold presents Life and Death posted at McKay Today, saying, "What a not-so-common house cat can teach us about living with pain."

Dean Moyer presents Mysterious Morning Neck Pain posted at The Back Pain Blog, saying, "In this post we review the various ways to apply heat therapy for temporary relief of back and neck pain."

Marlene Gundlach presents Living with Fibromyalgia | Fibromyalgia Advice posted at Fibromyalgia Advice, saying, "Tips on living day-to-day with fibromyalgia."

Grace Young presents No Power Lifting! posted at Grace R Young OT, saying, "Improper lifting can cause or increase damage and pain to the joints."

Jimson Lee presents Copper, Magnetic and Titanium Bracelets – PhysioBalm posted at Speedendurance.com, saying, "Can Copper and other heavy metals treat pain?"

Ellen Schnakenberg presents Treating Opioid side-effects with a new/old drug – WEGO Health posted at Ellen Schnakenberg’s Posts – WEGO Health, saying, "Living with pain almost invariably means the trial of an opioid pain killing drug at some point in time. Many people find success with this treatment, others don’t. Some find success in the treatment, but side-effects are so severe that treatment is discontinued. The patient is forced to seek other methods to control the pain or live with debilitating effects of a treatment that is supposed to help them. Sometimes with success, sometimes not. This article talks about a brand new drug to help the side-effects associated with opioid therapy. Based on a very well-known medication with a long history, this might be the answer for many."

And that’s it for this month. Please feel free to submit your blog article on pain-related issues to the next edition of living with pain using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Tags: living with pain, blog carnival, chronic pain blog, pain blog, fibromyalgia, back pain, neck pain, living with fibromyalgia, opioids

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It’s Living With Pain blog carnival time again

An online gathering place: PainAid

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:53:05 +0000

Are you looking for forums or discussion groups where you can talk to others who are living with pain or chronic pain? Are you looking for an ask-the-expert service? If so, the American Pain Foundation offers PainAid, where you can find these things.

Why not take a look to see if you can either get some help or maybe offer some.

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Tags: chronic pain, pain, chronic pain blog, pain blog

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An online gathering place: PainAid

Shin splints – Thanks Scott!

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:44:37 +0000

Why am I thanking someone named Scott? Because he’s the blogger over at Health and Men and he wrote a good post on the prevention and treatment of shin splints. So – he did my work for me. There’s no point in me rewriting something that’s been done already, right?

So, if you’re interested in learning how to prevent shin splints (stress on your shin bone that can cause pain) or you have shin splints and would like to know what to do about them, I suggest you pop over to read what Scott has to say: Shin Splints Prevention/Treatment

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Tags: pain blog, chronic pain blog, shin splints, shin bone, preventing shin splints

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Shin splints – Thanks Scott!

Follow me Friday – trip around the Health & Wellness channel

Marijke Durning, RN — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:12:55 +0000

We can go on a little trip without using any gas in the car. Let’s check out what’s happening around the Health & Wellness channel.

Over at A Dozen Steps, Mark has this post, September – National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Mark reviews the 12 steps in addiction recovery. In recognition of the month, several of the channel’s blog participated by writing about one of the steps. Liz, at Healthbolt, gathered them in to one post here: b5Media Salutes ‘National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month’

If you like give-aways and contests, Karen at Pink Ribbon Review has got a month for you: Coming Soon: The Pink Ribbon BCAM Giveaway. She writes: "From October 1st through 31st I’ll be giving something away every day to a Pink Ribbon Review reader! I’m serious. Every. Single. Day."

Kristina at Autism Vox has a great – and I mean great – post about mother’s instinct and how she felt helpless as a parked car kept her from knowing she could be home for her son when he got home from school: Because My Instinct Said So. I have to say, I felt a very familiar pit in my stomach when I read the post. That mothering instinct kicks in very early and never goes away.

Speaking of mothering, Angela at Breastfeeding 123 has a very informative post, Breastfeeding Education. At the end of the post are links to other bloggers and their contributions to the blog carnival.

Kelly at Grounded Fitness is inviting questions for her Ask The Dietician feature. And in keeping with health and fitness, Scott at Health and Men has a post on a surf-specific workout: The Surf Stronger Workout.

And, we’ll finish today’s trip over at Ruth’s Eating Fabulous and How Much Chocolate is Good for the Heart?

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Tags: chronic pain blog, pain blog, health and wellness

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Follow me Friday – trip around the Health & Wellness channel