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Heart & Stroke, Heart Failure Report . . .
If I can share my experience and even one person begins to think about their chronic health differently, I will be thrilled. I had the pleasure of being part of the Heart and Stroke Foundations, Heart Failure Report. I was … Continue reading →
www.facesofhealthcare.ca feature . . .
I want to share an amazing experience with you. I had the tremendous opportunity to be interviewed for a blog called, Facesofhealthcare.ca. Kind of a Humans of New York but about the people in Canadian healthcare. Graciously, Dr. Simpson, (a … Continue reading →
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Tagged advocacy, advocate, angiosarcoma, balance, cancer, cardiac arrest, Cardiac Rehabilitation, chronic illness, Chronic Kidney Disease, death with dignity, dialysis, dialysis machine, Fitness, gym, health, heart disease, heart transplant, hemodialysis, inter-professional model, kidney transplant, medicine, open heart surgery, palliative care, patient experience advisor, quality of life, sarcoma, transplant
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Vlogging about my Heart Function DECLINE. . .
I’ve known this information for a while . . . my heart function is lowering. We’re doing tests – Cardiology in Kingston and Toronto. Quite a few stress tests and ECGs and checking my defibrillator – as it logs my … Continue reading →
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Tagged advocacy, advocate, aggressive dialysis, balance, cardiac arrest, Cardiac Rehabilitation, chronic illness, Chronic Kidney Disease, defibrillator, dialysis, Diana Hopkins-Rosseel, exercise, Fitness, gym, Gym Schedule, health, healthy, heart disease, hemodialysis, home dialysis, Home Hemodialysis, journey, KGH, kidney, kidney disease, kidney failure, kidney transplant, Kingston General Hospital, love, new kidney, NxStage, patient, plan, quality of life, sick to fit journey, St. Michael's Hospital, strong, Toronto, transplant
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Open Letter to my Diseases . . .
Dear Kidney Disease, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Anemia and friends . . . We’re cool, ultimately. Not because I am happy to live with you all but because I had to make peace with you, since we met (in my teenage … Continue reading →
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Tagged advocacy, advocate, aggressive dialysis, ambulance, anemia, anger, author, balance, better person, broken, cardiac arrest, Cardiac Rehabilitation, challenge, chronic illness, Chronic Kidney Disease, control, courage, Dave deBronkart, death, defibrillator, dialysis, dialysis machine, dialysis schedule, diseases, doctor, energy, ePatient Dave, exercise, experience, faith, family, fear, fearless, fight, financial, Fitness, frenemy, friends, goals, God, gym, gym rat, happy, health, healthy, heart disease, hemodialysis, home dialysis, Home Hemodialysis, hope, hospital, hypertension, inspired, journey, kidney, kidney disease, kidney failure, kidney transplant, Kingston General Hospital, laugh, Lesson, lessons, Life, limit, limittion, love, Lupus, meditation, message, Mom, new kidney, nothing for granted, nurse, NxStage, operation, orphan, patient, patient experience advising, patient experience advisor, peace, perspective, physical pain, plan, prayer, pregnancy, prioritize, procedures, professional-earning potential, progress, proud, public speaking, purpose, quality of life, real love, relationship, research, sad, sick to fit journey, spiritual, St. Michael's Hospital, strength, strengthened relationships, strong, success, support, surgeon, terror, thankful, time, Toronto, transplant, traumatic, travel, unease, universe, waiting room, well-ish, whole
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Project Red Fashion Show Talk (Heart & Stroke) . . .
Short video recorded for Queen’s University‘s Project Red Charity Fashion Show few weeks ago. Here is the link to watch the video: (just over 3 minutes) https://youtu.be/SdCfGi_XtGs I was thrilled to have the opportunity to share my experience to help raise … Continue reading →
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Tagged advocacy, advocate, awareness, cardiac arrest, Cardiac Rehabilitation, death, defibrillator, dialysis, Diana Hopkins-Rosseel, fire fighters, medication, money, paramedics, Project Red, Project Red Charity Fashion Show, quality of life, Queen's Univeristy, research, university audience, video, YouTube
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Contributing to the Celebration of WORLD KIDNEY DAY!!!!
A few things to be thrilled about today . . . 1. It’s WORLD KIDNEY DAY!!! For me it’s an opportunity to reflect of the amazing progress that’s been made (and that is being made) to improve the lives of … Continue reading →
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Tagged advocacy, advocate, aggressive dialysis, Blog, Canada, Canadian Renal Rehabilitation Network, Cardiac Rehabilitation, chronic illness, Chronic Kidney Disease, dialysis, Dr. Trisha Parsons, exercise, experience, Fitness, Heart and Stroke Association, photodocumentary, physiotherapy, progress, ShoPTalk, sick to fit journey, treatment, World Kidney Day
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