I’m in love with Albert Einstein – or at least his quotes. I have tweeted many of them and used some favourites in my lectures. He must have been such an insightful man and I really want to ask him lots of questions or just chat to him because I reckon he’d be pretty inspirational. […]
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Extreme Dress-Ups: The Great Debate CFAConf2013 I am sitting on the plane coming back from our 22nd CFA National conference in Perth. And am feeling warm and fuzzy- the plane left on time, I’ve got a spare seat next to me so I can spread out, the Qantas streaming IPad is working, (unlike when on the nearly
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You know my friend Anne spends every spare moment she’s not being a brilliant OT lecturer and author, searching for funny incontinence cards for my birthdays and as you can see from this year’s card, she has yet again excelled. This one pretty much takes the cake though because this is something that distresses so
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Welcome to all those new followers from New Zealand. I am over here enjoying the hospitality of the Colorectal group in Auckland presenting the physiotherapy perspective of managing chronic constipation, faecal incontinence and other bowel disorders. We had a successful day today – Colorectal surgeons, lots of physios and Continence nurses- all exchanging ideas, challenging
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Dear PM , Congratulations on your resounding success on Saturday 7th September. I am writing to implore you not to see the money going to the Continence Management Scheme as a soft target for spending cuts. Yes I understand that NOBODY is going to complain about the loss of funds – because that would mean
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Oh what a night! The Trivial Pursuit night organized by the wonderful Jacinta Crickmore was an absolute blast- a happy, generous crowd, who tackled the questions and raffle tickets with gusto and rigor. I am pleased to report an interim result on the fund-raising front and that brilliant group (with more donations still to come in) raised around $7653. Dr Judith
Not a Trivial Result Read More »
I’ve just come home from our regular Continence Foundation of Australia (CFA) Qld Branch meeting where a bunch of Committed Peddlers of Continence Promotion (CPCP or #pelvicmafia) – nurses, Urogynaecologists, Physios, consumers and trade suppliers – planned the next series of public education forums, fundraising exploits and conferences for health professionals. Something tonight caused me
Our fabulous Tracey Read More »
Now for the past few weeks my every spare moment has been taken up with writing quite a number of presentations that are coming up in August and September. (I am soon to enroll in the latest online course on how to say no). So you may have noticed that the blogs have been a
Lazy blogging? Or we all could do with a good laugh? Read More »
My dear friend Anne, who between lecturing at UQ Occupational Therapy Dept, studying the stock market and finding funny cards and poems with references to incontinence for me, must rarely have any time to sleep. She has once again has come to the party and supplied the basis of yet another blog. Unfortunately I am unable to
Incahoots : Where I have and have not been! Read More »
I wrote the following blog around the time of our last fund raising Trivial Pursuit night in 2013 – organized to help raise funds for the wonderful work that Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause perform in Africa. We have just had a great lecture at our CFA State conference at The Pullman (14/3/14) from Dr Judith Goh on the
It’s HADA For These Women Read More »