Read the original article My sickle cell disease really affected me when I was 25, right after I had my daughter. After I had her, I was going to the hospital quite often in crisis. But the crisis wouldn’t come on until I was sleeping — usually about five o’clock in the morning. When it … Read More
Read the original article I’ve always been Daddy’s little girl. I’ll never forget the day he was diagnosed with dementia. It was one of the saddest days of my life. An occupational therapist came to our home to do an assessment. He told my father he had dementia. My father looked up and replied, “Am … Read More
Read the original article Theresa is a nurse practitioner with decades of experience. She has worked in both urban and rural settings, in a variety of primary care models, and is past president and past CEO of the Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO). She is currently part of the Mount Sinai Hospital Academic Family … Read More
Read the original article “Most of us don’t realize that long-term care (LTC) facilities are essentially a person’s final home. People move to these facilities because they’re in their last months or years of life. They need better health care because they have incurable illnesses such as dementia, frailty, renal failure and cardiac failure which … Read More
Read the original article This is Daniel and Mariel. They are medical laboratory technologists in the microbiology department. Daniel: “COVID-19 is, of course, the big thing that we’re mostly dealing with right now, but we are still doing our other roles in the microbiology lab. Processing blood cultures. We do sterile fluids and tissues. We … Read More
Read the original article Becca delivered her son, Theodore, prematurely at 28 weeks. [I texted my boss that I was leaving for an hour to get what I thought would be a quick checkup. I grabbed my health card and my cell phone and headed to the hospital. I had felt fewer kicks over the … Read More
Read the original article I was taken from my birth mom when I was a year old. I am a Sixties Scoop child. There are thousands of us. I was adopted with my biological sister. We were physically and emotionally abused. From a very young age, I was constantly being told I was a little … Read More
Read the original article “I officially retired two years ago. Prior to that I had worked as a Respiratory Therapist for 35 years – in the ED, the OR, NICU and ICU and as a clinical instructor/educator. I’ve worked through SARS, West Nile, and H1N1 outbreaks. CoVID-19 is more widespread than SARS, which was local … Read More
Read the original article My husband and kids haven’t been in physical contact with anyone outside our home for weeks. It’s a privilege for me to be able to be able to go to work. I get to see my colleagues and am able to have social relationships there. He is home with two kids, … Read More
Read the original article At the beginning of this, I was very apprehensive and nervous. I was mostly worried about the risk of sharing the infection if I were to get it. My wife, also a physician who can do her work virtually, is pregnant. She and our two children moved in with her … Read More
