My husband and I are the proud new adoptive parents of a beautiful baby girl with Down syndrome. We are also the proud parents of two biological children.
The goal of our blog is to promote adoption as an option in Canada for birth parents who receive an adverse prenatal diagnosis.
Having been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis aged 33, I lived with the illness for nearly 4 years before surgery became my only real option. Number Twos covers my experiences from my initial diagnosis to my recent colostomy.
This blog is a attempt to bring the subject of ECG to the hearts of all you clinicians and students, with a aliment of fun in working out the clinical relevance, abnormalities. See if you are up for the challenge of the cause of the arrhythmia, its clinical significance, differential diagnosis and the practical aspects of patient management.
I am a 25 year young female in New Zealand. I have designed my blog to help others who might be looking for answers to their questions about hip impingement and labral tears. Going through the process of diagnosis and treatment myself, I know the run-around a lot of these patients get to find the right diagnosis and treatment for themselves. I have included my full radiology and operation...
I am a 55 year old woman living a life that includes COPD / emphysema. While my diagnosis four years ago did change some things about me - I retired from teaching to avoid colds and flu, for example - it did not change who I am. I am an active, productive and happy woman - I write, I engage in several (too many?) hobbies, I care for my granddaughter while her mother works. I believe in the title...
William C. Dement MD PhD (born 1928), is a pioneering US sleep researcher, and founder of the Sleep Research Center, the world's first sleep laboratory, at Stanford University. He is a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
My blog may be benefecial to some parents; I am posting real-time as experienced daily challenges and learnings that my family and I are facing. I have benefited from reading other "bloggers" comments regarding the diagnosis my son has received, I hope another family, parent can benefit from reading our experiences and realizing they are not alone! As noted and obvious my...
I am a 48 yr old female who has had symptoms since 1999 and no diagnosis. In 2009 I was finally diagnosed with Chiari Malformation. Now I am searching for information and advice being that my NS thinks it is nothing.
Chronic Pelvic Pain is my blog journey through finding a diagnosis for pain in my pelvis, I believe it is neurologic, struggling my way through the first year of marriage, frustrating doctor appointments, becoming my own and only health advocate and realizing that doctors don't know everything. Or sometimes anything. The internet has become a place of support and knowledge. I hope that my...
I am a little astonished that I have been invited on here. I initially began my blog because I was devastated by my diagnosis and had a lot of difficulty coming to terms with it. I thought that keeping a journal of my experiences and my feelings would be therapeutic and I thought maybe others might be interested. I am married with no children. I worked for the federal government for...
