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Postings are cut/paste from other sources. @Cinsurancenews #rally4accidentvictims #ABPetition #CPPbacklogCanadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.comBlogger813125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-37320526816122894352017-01-08T01:45:00.003-05:002017-01-08T01:45:24.249-05:00Hired gun in a lab coat: How medical experts help car insurers fight accident claims.... years after being rear-ended in a car accident, Liese
Bruff-McArthur saw a small army of medical professionals. Most agreed
the crash had left her with chronic pain, depression, PTSD and other
troubles, making a return to work untenable.<br />
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Then she met Dr. Monte Bail.<br />
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Hired by the insurance company she was suing, the psychiatrist spent
an hour and a quarter with the Ottawa-area woman — the kind of work that
earned Bail as much as $77,000 a month — and concluded Bruff-McArthur
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And such cases are likely just the tip of the iceberg, say lawyers
representing accident victims, the plaintiffs. Judicial criticisms arise
only in the five per cent or so of cases that get to trial, they note,
so most instances of bias stay under wraps as lawsuits are settled out
of court.<br />
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“It’s clear from the (reported) cases that it is far too prevalent,”
says Adam Wagman, a plaintiff lawyer and president of the Ontario Trial
Lawyers Association. “That attacks the very foundation of our system of
justice.”.....<br />
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-3018128191945477292016-12-31T16:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T16:00:09.909-05:00Putting the pieces together - what Ont auto insurers don't pay and how it is creating a crisisInsurers are pocketing the health care costs of treating MVA
victims – funds that should be repaid to taxpayers (not to mention OW
and ODSP costs that the taxpayer is unknowingly picking up along with
prescription costs) and this has created a health care $ deficit problem
for Ontario taxpayers. A problem the Financial Services Commission has
known about for years – the Auditor General told the FSCO it needed
fixing in 2011 but nothing was done so the taxpayer has continually paid
some of the medical costs of MVA victims. To ‘cure’ the problem it is
now suggested by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce to privatize some
services. Which means more people would have to increase their private
insurer coverage if they are lucky enough to have this extra coverage.
Who benefits? Not the taxpayer and not victims. Insurers who will now
sell consumers the coverage they can no longer get from OHIP.
Simultaneously auto insurance coverage (as of June 1, 2016) is decreased
by over $1 million for the most catastrophically injured among us,
thereby saving insurers about $6-800 million a year in payouts.
Rehabilitation/medical rehab access is also cut by 5 years for all but
children who are injured. <a href="http://truthaboutinsurance.ca/benefits-recently-cut-further/" rel="" target="_blank">http://truthaboutinsurance.ca/benefits-recently-cut-further/</a> . So
just as MVA victims are about to be increasingly shunted onto the OHIP
system, the proposal is to increase the privatization of that system.<br />
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Source/more: <a href="http://www.fairassociation.ca/2016/03/putting-the-pieces-together-what-ont-auto-insurers-dont-pay-and-how-it-is-creating-a-crisis/" target="_blank">http://www.fairassociation.ca/2016/03/putting-the-pieces-together-what-ont-auto-insurers-dont-pay-and-how-it-is-creating-a-crisis/</a><br />
<br />Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-51748092545027397792016-12-31T15:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T15:00:27.208-05:00The lingering symptoms of a brain injury force me to lead a double life<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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with a complex chronic illness. In many ways I had to start over. I
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-73758232674429734952016-12-31T14:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T14:00:18.405-05:00Becoming Disabled<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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A person without a
disability may recognize someone using a wheelchair, a guide dog or a
prosthetic limb, or someone with Down syndrome, but most don’t
conceptualize these people as having a shared social identity and a
political status. “They” merely seem to be people to whom
something unfortunate has happened, for whom something has gone
terribly wrong. The one thing most people do know about being
disabled is that they don’t want to be that.</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-29456776169526808552016-12-31T13:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T13:00:30.078-05:00It's all in their heads<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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"A concussion
is more a mild form of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is
exposed to abnormal forces that result in transient neurological
dysfunction," Ellis says. "But ‘mild traumatic brain
injury’ is a bit of a misnomer."</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-78226211669455760442016-12-31T12:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T12:00:02.160-05:00Canada’s expensive habit: Adding up opioid abuse’s rising financial toll on the health-care system<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Public drug programs
spent $93-million on medications used for addiction to prescription
painkillers and illicit opioids in 2014, compared with $57.3-million
in 2011, according to figures for every province except Quebec
compiled by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for
The Globe and Mail. In four provinces, this class of opioids ranked
among the top 10 in spending on all prescription drugs – a group
that traditionally includes medications for arthritis, high blood
pressure and high cholesterol.
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-31919074018489979802016-12-31T11:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T11:00:23.835-05:00‘Situation is crisis all the time. There is no plan,’ says Ontario parent of adult son with autism<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Ombudsman Paul Dubé
is set to release that long-awaited report Wednesday at Queen’s
Park. Last year, the ombudsman’s 2014-2015 annual report revealed
the investigation had drawn more than 1,300 complaints, including
“urgent, disturbing cases where adults with severe special needs
were ending up in jail, homeless shelters and hospitals because no
care or services were available for them.”</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-77053541053428938712016-12-31T10:00:00.000-05:002016-12-31T10:00:27.554-05:00These Are The Hidden Costs Of Living With A Disability<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Do you know how much
a manual wheelchair costs? Not the kind you buy from the Sears
catalogue when you break your leg and need someone to push you around
for six weeks. I'm talking about the kind that a paraplegic might
need, that offers the correct ergonomic support and fits the
lifestyle of the person who will rely on it for years.</div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jacki-andre/the-hidden-costs-of-havin_b_11647994.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jacki-andre/the-hidden-costs-of-havin_b_11647994.html</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-87055360354309994302016-12-28T12:30:00.000-05:002016-12-28T12:30:26.007-05:00College fights to get groping MD’s licence revoked<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Following a Star
investigation into doctors still at work after sexually abusing their
patients, the provincial government established a task force in
December 2014 to study the issue and make recommendations. The
Ministry of Health has said the report is expected to be made public
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-88968956785645030202016-12-28T11:30:00.000-05:002016-12-28T11:30:00.618-05:00Opioid overuse is creating ‘lost generation,’ expert says<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Opioids overuse is
the “worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history,” a
leading expert on workers’ compensation told Canadian physicians
Wednesday, urging them to take tough and immediate action to address
the problem.</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-11023154807374784322016-12-28T02:18:00.000-05:002016-12-28T02:18:01.666-05:00The terrible cost of waste in health care
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......Deciding who
will live, or have a chance at life, and who will die, is one of the
crueler ways Ontario governments have long controlled the costs of
health care.</div>
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...Premier Kathleen
Wynne’s government for wasting billions of public dollars on, for
example, unreliable and expensive wind and solar power, for cancelled
gas plants and, most outrageously, for spending scandals in the
health ministry such as eHealth and Ornge.</div>
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<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/25/the-terrible-cost-of-waste-in-health-care" target="_blank">http://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/25/the-terrible-cost-of-waste-in-health-care</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-78922164439218252972016-12-26T19:27:00.000-05:002016-12-26T19:27:08.192-05:00Patients with moderate to severe TBI twice as likely to die from an unintentional injury
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Research examining
adults with moderate to severe TBI who participated in rehabilitation
showed that they were twice as likely to die from an unintentional
injury that occurred following their TBI. This was in comparison to
individuals in rehabilitation of similar age, sex, and race but
without TBI. People who have had a moderate to severe TBI may
experience changes in cognition and balance, which may put them at
greater risk of subsequent unintentional injuries.</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-2125148252324797052016-12-26T19:14:00.001-05:002016-12-26T19:14:04.632-05:00Higher driver fees in Ontario
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Drivers in Ontario
should get ready to fork out a few more dollars to the provincial
government to own a car or driver’s licence, because fees are going
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<a href="http://www.lowestrates.ca/news/higher-driver-fees-go-effect-ontario-today-24224" target="_blank">http://www.lowestrates.ca/news/higher-driver-fees-go-effect-ontario-today-24224</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-69636469248267854472016-12-26T19:05:00.001-05:002016-12-26T19:05:49.439-05:00Everyday Legal Problems and the cost of Justice in Canada<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-9332527478648456152016-12-26T18:42:00.003-05:002016-12-26T18:42:44.973-05:00How people suffering from Invisible Disability are subject to wrong judgment and discrimination
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word ‘disability’, they typically create the image of a person in
a wheelchair in their mind. However, what many people are unaware of
is the fact that disability doesn’t have to visible. There are
millions of disabled people around the world who show no signs of
disability on the outside, because their disability is usually linked
to their internal body system. This makes it very difficult for
people with invisible disabilities to explain their situation to
others and why they are entitle d to use disabled facilities as much
as the visibly disabled.</span></span></div>
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Everyday legal
problems — from getting divorced, to fighting eviction notices,
to disputing cell phone bills — cost Canadians about $7.7
billion a year.</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-12903680228104813092016-12-26T18:25:00.002-05:002016-12-26T18:25:36.101-05:00Court Finds It is an Abuse of Process For ICBC to File Inconsistent Pleadings From Single Collision
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In today’s case
(Glover v. Leakey) the Defendant was involved in a crash and injured
two passengers. One sued and fault was admitted and ultimately
settlement reached. The second sued but fault was denied. In the
midst of a jury trial the Plaintiff discovered the inconsistent
pleadings and asked for a finding of liability.</div>
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<a href="http://bc-injury-law.com/blog/court-finds-abuse-process-icbc-file-inconsistent-pleadings-single-collision?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IcbcLaw+%28ICBC+Law%29" target="_blank">http://bc-injury-law.com/blog/court-finds-abuse-process-icbc-file-inconsistent-pleadings-single-collision?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IcbcLaw+%28ICBC+Law%29</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-33151083620368306532016-12-26T18:10:00.000-05:002016-12-26T18:17:25.391-05:00Constitutional Challenge Launched Against Flawed Ontario Liberal Government Automobile Insurance Legislation- Discriminatory and Unconstitutional<span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Joseph Campisi</span></span>,
lawyer and advocate, is launching a constitutional challenge in the
Ontario Superior Courts. Mr. Campisi is seeking a declaration from the
courts that parts of the legislation that were recently passed by the
Liberal Government are discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be
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right to access the Superior Courts is a fundamental right for
Canadians. I am concerned that the recently proclaimed legislation will
deny this right to individuals who have been severely disabled." said
applicant and noted Personal Injury Lawyer <a href="https://www.campisilaw.ca/meet-your-team/joseph-campisi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Joseph Campisi</span></span></a>.
"Historically, the deck has been stacked against collision victims.
The recent amendments to the legislation have turned a bad situation
into a worse one for these vulnerable individuals. No longer will these
individuals be allowed to have the assurance of impartiality and
independence that is a cornerstone of our justice system when litigating
a claim against their own insurance company. I could not stand idly by
and let this happen."...........</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-67686657024344455152016-12-26T18:04:00.001-05:002016-12-26T18:10:25.208-05:00ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ALLIANCE UPDATE
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ACCESSIBILITY FOR
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Below are the email
addresses and Twitter handles for all Ontario MPPs as of February 28,
2016, broken down by their political party, and then listed in
alphabetical order for each party.</div>
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<a href="http://www.aodaalliance.org/strong-effective-aoda/02292016-ontario-mp-by-party.asp" target="_blank">http://www.aodaalliance.org/strong-effective-aoda/02292016-ontario-mp-by-party.asp</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-16536580181715077102016-12-24T19:19:00.003-05:002016-12-24T19:19:57.674-05:00Ontario needs a new governmentOntarians need relief from a government that has doubled the provincial
debt and is well on its way to pushing it up to a staggering $350
billion, making it the most indebted sub-sovereign borrower in the
world.........<br />
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Source/more: <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/10/ontario-needs-a-new-government" target="_blank">http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/10/ontario-needs-a-new-government</a><br />
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Premier Kathleen
Wynne’s government has started yet another cycle of consultation on
poverty reduction. Since 2008, social justice advocates have
participated in a series of policy consultations regarding social
assistance reform, only to be disappointed every time by government
inaction. Almost a decade of empty discussions about “poverty
reduction” has shown that consultation is a diversionary tactic to
avoid tackling poverty.</div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/12/lets-break-the-cycle-of-endless-studies-and-consultations.html" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/12/lets-break-the-cycle-of-endless-studies-and-consultations.html</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-29959929532847840462016-12-24T18:51:00.000-05:002016-12-24T18:52:05.697-05:00Ontario patients deserve better protection: Editorial<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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There’s a
conspicuous and troubling gap in the Liberal government’s plan to
protect Ontario patients from sexual abuse by doctors. Missing is the
core recommendation of a task force on this issue calling for
creation of a special Ontario Safety and Patient Protection
Authority.
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/09/09/ontario-patients-deserve-better-protection-editorial.html" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/09/09/ontario-patients-deserve-better-protection-editorial.html</a>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-3657797294238126772016-12-24T18:05:00.001-05:002016-12-24T18:52:15.003-05:00Bill reeks of IBC influence<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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Hudak is now leaving
politics and has never shown any interest or knowledge in the topic
of auto accident victims or pi lawyers before - so why now that he is
leaving? If he is pushing through the Protection for Motor Vehicle
Accidents Bill to get the government to scrutinize personal injury
lawyers, it is highly likely that the Insurance Bureau of Canada
(IBC) is behind it.</div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-40395762990129014372016-12-21T21:54:00.000-05:002016-12-21T21:54:02.939-05:00I Won’t Apologize for Having Fun While Chronically Ill
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When I was six, I
was hospitalized with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. At the hospital,
I was encouraged to get out of bed, get dressed and spend as much
time as possible in the playroom. I brought magazines and books back
to my room to read and played with other kids who were up and about
on the pediatric floor. There was a girl in the next room with
leukemia, and we made faces and waved to each other through our
shared window. The fact that I was able to play didn’t mean I
wasn’t sick enough to be hospitalized. It meant that regardless of
my illness, I was a child with the same needs and wants as other
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Yet, with adults,
the same concept doesn’t seem to hold true. Whenever ill people do
— well, anything — it’s taken as “proof” that we’re
bluffing about our condition. Many of us are confronted by complete
strangers on a regular basis when we go out in public, on everything
from using parking placards to requesting ADA accommodation at
events. We’re challenged more by people we know, who should really
know better.</div>
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After I became ill,
I decided to go to my favorite theme park one day. I didn’t do
much; it was a very sedentary experience. I posted a photo of myself
on one of the rides on Facebook with my germ mask on backward, slept
for days to recover from my adventure, and didn’t think much of it.
A few days later, my Mom called me about it. A “family friend”
had seen the photo and was furious about it. She’d apparently
complained to several people that if I was at a theme park, I was
obviously well enough to be working and was pulling some sort of
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I promptly
unfriended and blocked the person, but their actions stayed with me.
For most of the next year or so, whenever I posted a photo of myself
doing anything fun, I looked over my shoulder. I always made a point
of describing how sick I was and how I’d needed to rest, and how
tired I was afterward. I felt the need to qualify what I was doing;
to verify that I was still ill, and to remind everyone that there was
more to the truth than what was visible in the photo. Someone’s
ignorance and unkind judgments had made me feel guilty about enjoying
my life to the best of my ability and upset my mom, and that was
unconscionable.</div>
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It often seems that
there’s no real way for chronically ill people to win this battle.
Hostile individuals who don’t want to believe that you’re really
ill will find fault with anything you do. There’s no way to appease
them, regardless of how you live your life.</div>
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Some chronically ill
people are able to exercise, some are not. Some of us are encouraged
to be physically active in some way to help us maintain function (I
have a series of physical therapy exercises to do every day to help
with some specific orthopedic issues, for instance). Yet, if you’re
seen being physically active in any way, it’s taken as a sign that
you’re not sick after all. Society likes to applaud those Olympic
athletes who fight through their illness or disability to compete. If
you fight through your illness or disability to do something physical
sometimes, such as a 5K or dance performance, it may be seen as proof
that you’re a fraud.</div>
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It’s widely
accepted that having a strong, supportive network of friends and
family is helpful to those who have chronic illness. We’re told
that for our own well-being, we should get out of the house once in a
while. However, if we dare to go out in public with friends or do
something fun occasionally, again, some will believe we’re not
sick. And if we spend one afternoon at the movies now and again, it
somehow equates to being able to spend 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a
year, at work.</div>
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If you live alone or
don’t have a lot of support, you still have to take care of daily
tasks, but something as simple as buying your own groceries might
actually be seen as proof you’re able-bodied.</div>
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If you are too
exhausted or hurting too much to shower, do your hair or dress up
you’ve let yourself go; if you go out with makeup and styled hair,
well, you’re obviously not sick because you don’t look sick.</div>
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If you post photos
on social media where you’re looking well people will think you’re
not ill; if you post photos of yourself undergoing treatment, you’ll
be accused of being an attention seeker.</div>
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If you tell someone
about the progressive course of your illness, you’re faking it
because your Aunt Edna’s son’s niece had the same condition and
she’s fine now.</div>
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Social media photos
and observations of chronically ill people smiling and looking
“normal” or doing errands have even been used to deny or remove
disability benefits, which is quite possibly the most troubling thing
of all. It’s hard to understand that disability determination
specialists, doctors and government benefits administrators —
people who supposedly are knowledgeable about a wide range of health
conditions — don’t accept the concepts of good days, payback and
invisible illnesses that do not always have linear trajectories.</div>
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Nobody ever seems to
consider what’s happening outside and around that Facebook photo
they’re snarking about. The fact that it might have been the first
time in weeks that chronically ill patient got to do something really
fun eludes them. They don’t realize how much those activities cost
in terms of pain, fatigue and reduced function. They look at one
photo or one Facebook status about one day and think they’re an
expert on your life.</div>
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I’m not sure what
these people think we’re supposed to do every day. We have
incurable chronic illnesses. We often spend most of our time either
at home or in treatment as it is. We’re often exhausted and in a
lot of pain. If we’re not able to work full time, are we supposed
to forgo any and all moments of joy, distraction, social interaction
or enjoyment? Will that help us in any way? Being sick is extremely
hard for many of us. It’s even harder when hurtful, judgmental
types decide that illness should invalidate the fact that we have the
same needs as anyone else. Instead of telling chronically ill
individuals to shake off comments and accusations, maybe the onus
should be on these hecklers to refrain from making them and mind
their business. Is it really that hard to leave other people alone?</div>
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Eleanor Roosevelt
once said: “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for
you’ll be criticized anyway.” I’ve taken those words to heart
when it comes to interacting with others about my chronic illness. I
am no longer particularly nice when I’m confronted by impromptu
judges. Every once in a while someone honestly doesn’t understand,
and politely and succinctly explaining a few things helps them. More
often, though, they’ve already come to their own conclusions and
nothing I say is going to put a dent in their hostility. I won’t
waste my time trying to justify myself to random strangers and
mean-spirited acquaintances who have appointed themselves judge and
jury of my life.</div>
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I can’t stop
others from thinking whatever they want about me. However, I can and
do refuse to comply when someone demands apologies, guilt or
justifications from me for getting out of the house once in a while.
Anyone who decides that chronic illness somehow invalidates my needs
as a person — including my needs for happiness and socialization —
isn’t getting an iota of my concern.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.goodmorningusa.tk/2016/12/i-wont-apologize-for-having-fun-while.html" target="_blank">http://www.goodmorningusa.tk/2016/12/i-wont-apologize-for-having-fun-while.html</a> </div>
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Canadian Insurance Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438230100289017463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201435313300764139.post-80178281679967405842016-12-21T21:35:00.001-05:002016-12-21T22:03:57.820-05:00Louise’s StoryIt was a warm spring day in April when Louise celebrated her 79th
birthday at home, surrounded by her four children, their spouses, and
nine grandchildren. She raised her children there in the home she shared
with her husband for 48 years, until his death. It was there that
Louise brought everyone together to entertain, to share food and wine
and companionship. The home, like Louise, was at the center of her
family and it was there with her family that she was happiest. And on
that day they all shared joy and love, and celebrated a life well lived.
Six weeks later Louise was gone.<br />
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For Monica, Louise’s eldest child, the pain is still fresh. When she
talks about her mother you can hear the combination of love and loss in
her voice. She never gave up hope that her mother would beat the cancer
that eventually took her – after all Louise beat cancer twice before.
Despite the loss Monica is still grateful that her mother’s last days
were at home, surrounded by loved ones. She credits this to Louise’s use
of medical cannabis.<br />
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“She wasn’t on it for that long,” says Monica, “but the time she was on it did wonders.”.........<br />
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