Mardy Ross's blog

"....There's so much oversight for what we do, so many people we have to answer to and so little of it improves care, it's just driving us all crazy."   Robert Perlmuter, Chicago Internal Medicine Doctor, in an article in my local newspaper today, which is reporting on an analysis in the latest JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) of the trend of decreasing hours physicians work, which correlated with a 25% reducation in pay for doctors' services when adjusted for inflation.  When they looked  read more »

I attended a memorial service and after party/gathering in a rural western Colorado 'fellowship hall' for the husband of a friend of mine who has just been very special since the day we sat next to each other at a progressive health-type seminar three years ago this month.  My day's variables had been more time-extensive than I'd planned and MapQuest misdirected me to miles from where the service was AND the one paper notice that I had with me was incomplete and gave the time and place of the after party as the time and place of the memorial.  But I got there for the important par  read more »

I attended a memorial service and after party/gathering in a rural western Colorado 'fellowship hall' for the husband of a friend of mine who has just been very special since the day we sat next to each other at a progressive health-type seminar three years ago this month.  My day's variables had been more time-extensive than I'd planned and Google misdirected me to miles from where the service was AND the one paper notice that I read happened to be incomplete and gave the time and place of the after party as the time and place of the memorial.   read more »

Are YOU an Artist? Writer? Reader? Garden?  Woodwork? Watch Movies?  read more »

If I were to have a half hour of time in a video to describe occupational therapy and chronic pain from my perspective, which is the Lumigrate 'You Model" basically, I'd do it in the following way:  read more »

I'm playing a little game with myself today and hoping you can help me.  What elements would you put into something in order to teach people what they might want or need to know about chronic pain and illness and the base concept of Lumigrate, which is the 'You Model' of the home page?  You'll literally be helping formulate a big project which I'm working on the outline for right now.   read more »

I ran late getting over to Pablo Blanco's last night to cook dinner and help with 'glue up' of a big wood working project he has been working on for about as long as he's known me, which is 15 months now.  I think I was putting it off a bit because I was nervous about how it was going to go as I've not done a big glue up like this since about 1992, and fibromyalgia has come and had it's insidious impact on many aspects of my function, including dexterity, processing speed of the mind, and on and on.  Yada, yada, yada, as "Seinfeld" would say.  I was tired yesterday  read more »

"You can't have peace until you put the pieces together." These words were the big message yesterday as I had Oprah on in the background while I worked.  My interest was piqued because it was well done show about bringing people who had been separated back together; mother's who had given babies for adoption, for instance.  Since my father was adopted and later in life was found through Adoption Exchange by a niece who also had been adopted out, a family who had someone do the whole genealogy ancestry and had this one 'missing boy' from 1921.  He'd  read more »

It's always a pleasure to see an e-newsletter in the inbox when it's from Dr. Teitelbaum, because they only send out something when it is Some Thing.  Today it was to report that his new book about sugar and health is available from Amazon.com.  (You'll notice our products page puts people through to Amazon as well, which we chose to do because it is such a 'trusted and familiar' route, but ideally another source for people shopping for products from Lumigrate is something we're interested in pursuing).   read more »