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Julia O. Registered Nurse

Pacific Northwest, Washington
I can live reasonably well with autoimmune disease. So can you! I am an RN who likes hanging... Full Bio
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Health Food Wannabe by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Nobody said this would be easy. In a quest to reduce my exposure to unnecessary and potentially harmful food additives, I have been doing more grocery shopping in those nuts- ... Read on »
News-As-Entertainment Stress by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Wow, I had a really good idea for a post. But I can't remember it.......hmm.....this makes me stressed...... Oh, yes. Wendy made a great comment about the effects of stress ... Read on »
Energy Management for Dummies by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Now that Lulu has had her puppy shots, I have one less reason to avoid walking the dogs. Poor Sammy doesn't get to join us, but takes his walks with John. Walking Sammy is lik ... Read on »
Irritating Intertrigo by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Skin. I have never had so many opportunities to scrutinize mine until autoimmune disease arrived. I've written multiple posts about autoimmune related skin issues - you can r ... Read on »
Needs No Explanation by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine see more Sports Pictures I have absolutely no excuse for not exercising. None. Read on »
Soapy Update by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine You may recall that about a month ago, I tentatively ventured into the realm of saponification - or soap making. You can read my previous post here. Today, I took one of my c ... Read on »
H1N1 Update by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Do you have questions about H1N1 - swine flu - and the H1N1vaccine? Head over to Doc Gurley's site and read more about it. Bottom line? H1N1 is truly a pandemic, and yes, th ... Read on »
Too Good Not To Share by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with Sjogren's syndrome or autoimmune disease. My kids and their friends, all twenty-somethings, were discussing dating. On ... Read on »
Noise Noise Noise by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Our television signal comes from one of those mini-satellite dishes. To view TV from the dish, you have to run the signal through a special receiver, and wouldn't you know it, ... Read on »
Flu Vaccine and NSAIDs by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Has your doctor recommended that you get the H1N1 vaccination or the seasonal influenza vaccine? If so, as you roll up your sleeve, consider this: If you are a needle wimp, l ... Read on »
Undie Organization by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image found here. Whenever I do mundane and boring tasks such as laundry, I like to pass time by thinking about something completely goofy. A girl's gotta do what she's gotta ... Read on »
Before it all Went Wrong: Normal Immune Systems by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image from wikimedia commons I spend a great deal of time trying to make sense of what my over-active immune system is doing to me. So I spend a considerable amount of time re ... Read on »
Howling Good Halloween by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Did y'all have a good Halloween? We celebrated with bloody slush, complete with cranberry blood clots: Had our first slice of pumpkin pie for the season: But the best item o ... Read on »
Sjogren's Syndrome Can Be Ho-Hum by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image found here. It seems like just yesterday when John and I lived such busy lives that we would have to sit down together with our calendars and schedule uninterrupted tim ... Read on »
ME/CFS by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This video, from the ME (Myalgic Encephalopathy) Association, does a great job illustrating the challenges of living with an invisible illness. ME is also known as Chronic Fa ... Read on »
Love that Spelt Bread by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Like a lot of Sjoggies, I just don't tolerate foods made with wheat. Um, I'll bet it wouldn't take much imagination to guess what symptoms they induce. I made an earlier promi ... Read on »
Sjogren's Syndrome Loves the Autumn by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image by daddypete For the last week, it's been cool, overcast, and rainy. Perfect. I'm serious. As much as I love summertime here in the Pacific Northwest with months of c ... Read on »
The Scent of Ethical Behavior by Julia O. Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I've been anxiously poking, prodding and fussing with my first batch of soap. See my previous post, here. I decided to try my hand at soap making to reduce the amount of chem ... Read on »