I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we communicate with health care professionals. When our loved ones are very sick, they are usually in the hospital and as we gather information to make important choices, we are forced to navigate the uncharted waters of conversations that are so complicated,
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: What Some Doctors Don’t Understand About Us
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we communicate with health care professionals. When our loved ones are very sick, they are usually in the hospital and as we gather information to make important choices, we are forced to navigate the uncharted waters of conversations that are so complicated,
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: The ER Caregiver Effect
There’s a tourist attraction in my city of Ottawa (Canada) called The Crazy Kitchen. It’s a room in the National Museum of Science of Technology that’s designed to demonstrate the effects of optical illusion on the mind and body. Entering the Crazy Kitchen is like walking through the doors of
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