http://womenandfibromyalgia.com Living with an Invisible Dis-ease Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:14:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/06/23/fibromyalgia-men-and-womensensitivity-and-empathy/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/06/23/fibromyalgia-men-and-womensensitivity-and-empathy/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:57:02 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=30 “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it”, George Carlin To-day one of my favourite comedians died. I shall miss his humour and while I obviously agree with Carlin’s view that both men and women are from earth, I cannot be quite so cavalier about dealing with many known differences. Sensitivity and empathy, for example, [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/06/23/fibromyalgia-men-and-womensensitivity-and-empathy/feed/ 5 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 17:52:03 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/ “There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain”, Florence Nightingale  To-day, May 12th is International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. It is also the birth date of Florence Nightingale, born May 12, 1820. In 1986 I decided that it was time to develop a Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and began [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/05/12/fibromyalgia-and-florence-nightingale/feed/ 13 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:32:47 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/ “Being a woman is hard work”, Maya Angelou.  There can be little doubt that fibromyalgia has become very prominent as a serious social and personal condition that affects primarily women. In fact, it is said by some that it is an epidemic of great proportions. Loss of work, physical impairments and challenges, intense pain, decreased income [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/feed/ 5