Help My Hurt

May 5th, 2008

Company’s calling: sudden onset of rheumatoid arthritis

It’s National Arthritis Month, so it’s only fitting that today Karen Smith joins us here for Help My Hurt’s Company’s Calling feature to talk about her sudden onset of rheumatoid arthritis. Karen is a software support consultant, from Keswick, Ontario, Canada, a very small town north of Toronto.
Can you tell me about when you first […]

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April 28th, 2008

Company’s calling… what’s wrong with this picture?

My lady isn’t home. There was no-one to visit with.
Please keep her company next week - if you have a story to share, email me and we’ll get going on it.
For those of you who are new to the Company’s calling feature, here are some previous Company’s calling interviews:

Company’s calling - living with the pain […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 3 comments

April 21st, 2008

Company’s calling - Olympic cyclist Kristin Armstrong talks about her osteoarthritis

Image: iStock.com
I was going to introduce our visitor today as a special visitor - but then again, everyone who stops by Company’s calling is special, right? But today, we do have an extra special visitor. Someone who works with World Champion cyclist Kristin Armstrong noticed Help My Hurt and offered to put us in […]

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April 14th, 2008

Company’s calling - an RN speaks about her fibromyalgia

 
This week, we welcome Bonnie Hensley, a 50-year-old registered nurse in the Seattle area joins us. She tells me that she works 56 hours in a 2-week period (3 days one week, 4 the next) in a community hospital operating room.
She’s been an OR nurse (”all I’ve ever done as a nurse,” she says) […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 1 comment

April 7th, 2008

Company’s calling - living with ulcerative colitis

 
Jennifer, an attorney in Washington, DC, volunteered to speak to us about living with ulcerative colitis. Many people live with some sort of bowel disease, be it Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel, or others. Living with such a disease can be hard because people don’t talk about them as they might about diabetes or high blood […]

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March 31st, 2008

Company’s calling - another migraineur speaks out

Pam, who referred to herself as a “Connecticut Yankee currently living in Israel” is another guest who lives with migraine pain. As with most migraineurs, her story is eerily familiar, yet different too.

Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
30 years ago, I […]

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March 24th, 2008

Company’s calling - a retired surgeon speaks about his nerve pain

 
This week, we speak with a retired surgeon from the mid-west USA.
 
Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was? What were you told?
I started having arm pain around five years before I had to […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 2 comments

March 17th, 2008

Company’s calling - migraines can cause disability

This week, Diana Lee, a disabled attorney & writer and editor of Somebody Heal Me, from Lawrence, Kansas, joins us to talk about her life with migraines.

Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
I had my first migraine at around age 6. […]

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March 10th, 2008

Company’s calling - more on back pain

This week, we welcome Helen, a freelance writer from Kitchener, Ontario. She talks to us about her back pain.
Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
I started experiencing back pain in 1995 when I was pregnant with my second child.
Did you seek help right […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Company’s calling - a year of knee pain

This week, we speak with Cynthia Boris, a writer in Orange County, CA. She talks about the knee pain she’s been experiencing for about a year now.
Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
I’d guess about a year ago, I started feeling this […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments