Posts Tagged ‘living with chronic illness’
Monthly Education Meeting
Please join us Wednesday, November, 6 @ 6pm MST for our monthly education meeting. Attend in person at BHC or watch in via livestream! Education meetings occur the first Wednesday of every month at the Bateman Horne Center and are broadcast via Facebook Live and then posted to BHC Youtube channel.
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Linda Milne is a member of the BHC community who has navigated living a fulfilling life while living with chronic illness. During the November session, Linda will engage a panel in a robust discussion on living a life of quality, while living with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. Linda Milne, with 20 years of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia is…
Read MoreRaising Awareness for ME/CFS in Petaluma, California
Dr. Bateman traveled to Petaluma, California for a ME/CFS benefit concert on October 5, 2019. This benefit concert featuring singer-songwriter, Marian Call, was designed to entertain, inform, and raise awareness for this debilitating disease. Marian Call’s sound is clever and unique, by turns humorous and heartbreaking; the perfect fit for an audience comprised of those…
Read MoreOvercoming Barriers to Access Care, Dr. Bateman
In this month’s education meeting, Lucinda Bateman, MD, presented ways patients and medical providers can overcome barriers to compassionate care. There are four main barriers to compassionate care: ignorance, the nature of the illness, financial constraints, and difficulty visiting the doctor. Barrier One: Ignorance When it comes to helping people with ME/CFS, many medical providers…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Neuroscience of Pain, Dr. Nelson
In our April education meeting we were pleased to host Matt Nelson, DPT, an educator, advocate, and expert in handling chronic and complex pain conditions. He described our current neurological understanding of pain, how pain may be decreased by education through physical therapy and, thus improve our ability to cope. What is Pain? When the…
Read MoreOctober Monthly Education Series with Dr. B
Please join us Wednesday, October 2 @ 6pm MDT for our monthly education meeting. Individuals with ME/CFS and FM experience many barriers to access informed and compassionate care. Now is the time to push back on those barriers, especially the ones based on ignorance, bias, and inaccurate information. Dr. Bateman will suggest some tools to…
Read MoreImproving Quality of Life with Chronic Illness, Dr. Sherlock
In this month’s education meeting we were pleased to hear from Elizabeth Sherlock, PhD, a clinical psychologist who joined the Bateman Horne Center in 2018. She moderates support groups for patients and caregivers. Doctor Sherlock has a great deal of experience with ME/CFS. Her son had the illness for 20 years and died at the…
Read MoreOngoing Developments at the Bateman Horne Center
BHC as a ME/CFS Center of Excellence A Center of Excellence is a program assembled to supply an exceptionally high concentration of expertise and resources in an area of medicine. The Fatigue Consultation Clinic and OFFER joined forces to establish the Bateman Horne Center, a ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Center of Excellence. The objective is to…
Read MoreCoping with Chronic Illness with Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön is an American Tibetan Buddhist. Pema has led extensive discussions on working with chronic illness, specifically ME/CFS. A generous and anonymous donor has secured permission to share this video clip with our community to assist patients with this helpful coping discussion.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sherlock shares her wealth of experience as a clinical psychologist in this month’s education series, Living with a Chronic Illness. She will share insights and tactics for coping, life modifications, acceptance, and building a system of support. Dr. Sherlock has been a caregiver and has experienced life with ME/CFS first hand, in close…
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