What is the main thing that patients and caregivers have in common? I believe the answer is stress. Therefore, one of the best gifts you can give them is something to help them relax. Gift cards are a way of doing that. During endless days of clinic appointments or hospital…
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Erik Born and his wife, Donna. (Photo courtesy of Erik Born) Day 9 of 30 This is Erik Born’s story: For a few years, I was always short of breath. In 2019, I went to my doctor, who told me my asthma was just getting worse. I was 51…
It didn’t get old. I was still very much amused the third time I deposited a stack of postcards emblazoned with an illustration of the heart pulled from my chest seven months prior. Last February, I mailed 75 graphic Valentine’s Day cards to friends…
”She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” — lawyer and cancer patient Elizabeth Edwards, from her memoir “Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities” Almost three years later, I still haven’t recovered to…
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is one of my least favorite questions during job interviews, and I hated it even more when I would catch myself lobbing it at prospective co-workers. Oddly enough, if somebody had asked me that question five…
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I’m Celebrating a Year with You
“There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.” – Ally Condie I am unfamiliar with the author of that quote and her thoughts behind it. But as I prepared to write my one-year anniversary column, it grabbed my attention. The…
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Cooking Is Great in Life with PH
A therapist once asked me what makes me happy, and I said “food” right away. Thankfully, I’ve matured since high school, and food is no longer at the top of my mental list of reasons to live. Now coffee ranks above it. I’m joking!…
This column describes the author’s own experiences with some prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Not everyone will have the same response to treatment. Consult your doctor before starting or stopping a therapy. When I was in college, I always had a Ricola cough drop on hand. They littered my…
Specialty pharmaceutical company SteadyMed Ltd. recently raised $12.2 million in equity financing, co-led by subsidiaries of Federated Investors Inc. and Deerfield Management Company L.P., as well as existing shareholders from the company. The funding will be invested in SteadyMed’s therapeutic product candidates for the treatment of orphan diseases, including…
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Music deserves a note of thanks
Music is a universal gift given and received by people of all ages, ethnicities, and cultures. Its versatile melodies, rhythms, harmonies, lyrics, and instruments adapt to any person, place, situation, mood, and event. Music is the keeper of memories, the creator of dreams, and the healer of mind, body, and…
Day 24 of 30 Days of PH Topic: My Girlfriend’s Son Has PH This is Galen’s Story The world of PH is still relatively new to me in comparison to my age. I’m 42 now, and I’ve been actively involved in the lives of a…
Day 19 of 30 Days of PH Topic: When PH Is In The Family This is Joanne’s Story @Zoanna6464 My PH story is a family one. My mom’s sister, Josephine, died at 23 in 1963. She was newly married, and her symptoms really came…