Review: Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease

I read Women, Work and Autoim­mune Dis­ease by Ros­alind Joffe and Joan Fried­lan­der a few months back, but for some rea­son my review on Ama­zon never showed up, and I didn’t think to keep a copy for myself. It seems to finally be there now, so I’ll put it here, too (slightly expanded). This book […]

May 29, 2008  Tags: autoimmune disease, chronic illness, Joan Friedlander, Rosalind Joffee, working  Posted in: disability, employment, Resources  One Comment

The Value of Education for Chronic Illness Patients

Paula Kamen, author of All In My Head, talks about the value of edu­ca­tion in cop­ing with chronic ill­ness in an excel­lent edi­to­r­ial in the New York Times. Leav­ing the Rab­bit Hole. This pas­sage, in par­tic­u­lar, spoke to me: The worst thing, to me, about hav­ing a non-stop multi-year headache isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the pain. Or […]

February 19, 2008  Tags: chronic daily headache, chronic illness, Education, migraines, Pain, Paula Kamen  Posted in: Education, Pain, Resources  One Comment