When faced with healthcare challenges, it’s understandable that individuals may want to embrace promising medical interventions that are readily available. However, before agreeing to any type of preventative or treatment-focused intervention, it’s important to keep three considerations in mind: 1. Your individual situation. Everybody’s needs are different and each person’s situation is unique. That’s true […]
The need for Normal
Recently, I was out running errands and decided to do something I haven’t done in a very long time: go through the drive-thru at Dunkin’ Donuts for coffee. Since we’ve taken a very conservative approach to keeping ourselves safe in the COVID-19 era, this favorite-thing-to-do has been a thing-of-the-past until then. However, on that day, […]
When COVID-19 infection leads to hospitalization: Simple ways to plan ahead to comfort a loved one from afar
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented headlines abound. With the death toll mounting, some of the most heart-wrenching stories for me have been those that describe the heartache of families who were not able to be with their loved ones when they died in the hospital. We saw the early signs of this […]
A pressing issue that has been there all along
In this era of COVID-19, there are many pressing issues filling the headlines. I could start a list, but since our world has been turned upside down, we’d be here all day. Instead, I’d like to focus on a pressing issue that has been with us all along—but has recently been underscored by the increased awareness […]