by Verite Reily Collins | May 10, 2017 | Diary Archive
Cancer charities focuss on raising money, often without thinking what we need. Cancer has left me fairly disabled, so I need to work from home. This website semes to have a mind of its own, so thought I would expand it. For the last two months I have been asking for...
by Verite Reily Collins | May 8, 2017 | News
ASCO is the US Government’s Official Cancer Advice website. A kind of American equivalent of NHS Choices ASCO = American Society for Clinical Oncology Is the major site I turn to when I want accurate info relating to cancer and treatment. I would trust this...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 26, 2017 | Diary Archive
Bullying is rife – now it’s the Cabinet Office making hospital administrators cancel an important meeting to try and sort out the mess that faces patients needing hospital transport. Yesterday I was phoned to say a meeting planned for this week had been put off until...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 17, 2017 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise, Osteoporosis
Confused about what to eat if you have Osteoporosis? You are not alone It seems sensible eating might be getting a look-in. Fad diets have had their day Especially if you have Osteoporosis Healthy bones need a well-balanced calcium-rich diet that incorporates food...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 7, 2017 | Diary Archive
A Nursing Times investigation reports “thousands of nurses accept payments and benefits from the UK pharmaceutical industry each year, sparking warnings that they should “keep their eyes wide open” in dealings with drugs companies”. I often wondered why I was given...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 23, 2017 | Lymphoedema
Livestrong on exercise for Lymphoedema Livestrong is the mega American cancer charity, with a lot of really good information on its website, in a much more user-friendly format than we seem to produce! The charity is very keen on exercise post-cancer, and say the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 7, 2017 | Diary Archive
Had an email re Save the NHS March, complaining that BBC had dropped coverage before marchers reached end. Yes, with my journalist hat on, it was because Editors would have discovered the March didn’t say anything. It was a massive protest without a coherent message....
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 26, 2017 | Diary Archive
There must be enough disabled people around for big companies to think about our needs. I have stopped shopping at John Lewis and Apple – why? Because they are too arrogant to think what we might need. Peter Jones (part of John Lewis) has removed all the chairs it...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 21, 2017 | Diary Archive
In the 50s when I was treated for Polio, the NHS really was the envy of the world. Every Friday my surgeon would arrive with his Ward Round, always accompanied by at least four foreign doctors sent to Stanmore by their hospitals, and paying good money to the NHS for...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 23, 2016 | Diary Archive
Opened a forum (for women principally) and usual moans re NHS treatment – but no suggestions for what could be done to improve matters. Just moans. Had a chat with my Dutch Physio (married to an Englishman, so we have benefit of her expertise) and she is constantly...
