Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer: When my wife was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I instinctively reached for books. Not medical tomes or statistical survival guides—though I eventually read those… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

When my wife was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I instinctively reached for books. Not medical tomes or statistical survival guides—though I eventually read those too—but books that could help me navigate the emotional wilderness of loving someone with a terminal diagnosis. These books became my companions during our four-year journey with cancer. They offered […]

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Life in 2017 with #POTS #dysautonimia

Reading that treatment resistant depression might indicate personality disorders. Reading that bipolar depression isn’t real & it’s due to faulty thoughts & behaviours. Reading that we shouldn’t be on meds. Basically feeling like an absolute failure today.😢

Brain fog is a mother #brainfog #brainfogmemes #adhd

NEW #MedSky #PsychSky #NeuroSky A two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis finds no causal relationship between #depression & myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (#MECFS). Important: people w ME/CFS are NOT “just depressed.” #MedEd #LongCovid www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What’s a better combination than this. Quantum physics (gift from theoretical physics son) with espresso martini!

Reminder that if you ever need a meal and can't afford it, find your local gurudwara, they will feed you a great hot meal for free, you won't even have to fetch a plate for yourself and they'll also give you a place to crash if you don't have one and there's room. gurudwara is open to all always

#2SLGBTQIA young adult #cancer study in Canada #oncosky #cansky

I also think And Then She Fell is a five-star story 😂 Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀

Lorin Elise@paperbackbish.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ten incredible reads if you’re looking for a winner!! @wordsandguitar.bsky.social @ashleyposton.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social

New position statement on pain in the older person just dropped via ANZSGM. I particularly liked point 3. "3. The gold standard for pain assessment is self-report. A person reporting pain should be believed, even in the absence of demonstrable pathology likely to explain the pain." 🙌

To All New Members I know you’re excited to be on here. We’re excited that you’re here too! But please understand if you have no bio and you have no posts it’s very difficult for us with Twitter PTSD to follow you back Please take the time to add to your bio, make a post, so we know who you are 🦊

#cansky #oncosky

Patricia Stoop @patriciastoop.bsky.social · 2y ago

yearly scans & labs clear - no cancer 10 years! I quietly quit all treatment 2 yrs ago. Couldn’t tolerate side effects (effucks). So I took a break for 3 months & by the end of that I decided to take an extended break. Which turned into quitting all treatment. 1/4

We DO NOT throw perfectly good food away in this house. We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!

yearly scans & labs clear - no cancer 10 years! I quietly quit all treatment 2 yrs ago. Couldn’t tolerate side effects (effucks). So I took a break for 3 months & by the end of that I decided to take an extended break. Which turned into quitting all treatment. 1/4

Random reminder: You don't grow the economy through trickle down economics. You grow the economy by investing in workers: their education, health care, child care, transportation, and job training.

Dogs snuggling #dogsky

PSA: A lot of bots are invading Bluesky, so many of us are being cautious in following back. Please make sure you put something in your bio to tell people who you are! This is how we find each other! Like and repost other's posts! This is how we build Bluesky! And helps show you are not a bot!

Death, It’s hard to talk about, Even harder when its NOT a hypothetical scenario, But it is so important to keep talking, Because in talking ‘death’, we live a little better when we live with #MetastaticCancer #cansky #oncsky #thankscancer

It might be EBM but until #qualitative research is done we don’t understand the how & why it’s so hard to implement. I hope the administrators & team leads listen!

Rhea Liang@liangrhea.bsky.social · 2y ago

Published! A #qualitative review of ERAS implementation (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, not the Swiftie tour 🤣) with Georgia Tobiano, Wendy Chaboyer, Josie Lovegrove, Keith Addy and Brigid Gillespie. Spoiler alert- evidence and goodwill only goes so far without RESOURCING. #MedSky #SurgerySky

Outdoor fire pit on this rainy yucky evening

Hello friendos Your librarian here with the library tip Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!

Is there an #occupationaltherapy starter pack?

Shared from Instagram with permission. It explains the purpose of occupational therapy & the meaning of occupational justice. ‘Occupation’ is all activities of daily life, not just paid employment.

@wordsandguitar.bsky.social I LOVED “And Then She Fell” it validated me having experienced both post partum depression and later in life… bipolar.

My masters study. The experience of metastatic cancer patients in patient engagement at BC Cancer. #oncosky #cansky pxjournal.org/journal/vol8...

Patients can volunteer at their cancer center. Start a group online or in person. Write a guest blog. Simply speak with another patient one on one. Or, they might keep to themselves and donate to a cause! What’s important is there is no “right” way to advocate. #Cansky #Oncsky #Advocacy