Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Alameda Farmers’ Market Ron (the egg guy) told me that their main supplier, a family poultry farm for generations (Great Valley), is going out of business at the end of October. But he said he has found another farm with pasture-raised poultry where he can get the eggs. Pain Group Online…
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Kaiser Pain Management Group online, Session 12
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 We had a rather uneventful shopping day in Alameda–post office, Walgreen’s, Safeway. I put Linda’s buttermilk in grocery bags that zip, and she also took the corners very carefully and slowly so nothing could have spilled. I was glad to see Julie Whitehead facilitating the meditation and discussion. The topic was…
Level 3 Pain Group Follow up #2
May 23, 2018, 10:00 a.m. May 23, 1883, was the birthdate of my maternal grandfather who lived to be 81. Today is another Level 3 Pain Group follow-up session. There were only five of us: two from my January/February group and three others from a more recent group. Dr. Whitehead began with a long, slow…
Pain Clinic Drop-in Group
April 24, 2018 This appointment seemed so familiar (from all the weeks of the Pain Management Program), yet a little strange. I checked in and the girl at the desk took my Kaiser card and ran it through the card reader. She couldn’t seem to find anything for a drop-in Pain Clinic group. She had…
Pain Management: My Review
March 17, 2018 I have completed the 3-day-a-week 5-week outpatient Pain Management program at Kaiser. The facilitators all made it clear from Day 1 that this is not a pain relief program but a pain management! And they were right. We were not allowed to talk specifically about our pain nor about medications. I posted…
Day 13 Pain Management
February 16, 2018 I have more pain today, I think after working so hard yesterday afternoon with no break. I opened a new can of “magic” espresso beans and took one. Dr. Whitehead began with the meditation, this one focusing on body sensations of heaviness and warmth. Great distractions. Francis came in for the exercises,…
Day 6 Pain Management
January 31, 2018 Francis was back and was the first presenter, beginning promptly at 10:00 a.m. with a half-hour of meditation. He played an audio file which he said was accessible in the members’ area of the Kaiser website. I could understand about 50% of what the female speaker said. After that, he took a…
Day 5 Pain Management
January 29, 2018, 10:00 a.m. Dr. Whitehead was, again, the main presenter. We started with a half hour of meditation and breathing, this time imagining we are on a beach. She seemed to be talking a little louder and I got 90% of what she said (instead of missing 90%!). The “gentle movement” was another…
Day 3 Pain Management
January 24, 2018 Today’s session started out with Lisa, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She continued with the concept of the “Biopsychosocial Model of Pain” to show the relationship of physical pain to emotional responses. She also facilitated the meditation exercise and relaxation breathing. She wasn’t nearly as soft-spoken as Dr. Whitehead, so I had…
Day 2 Pain Management
January 22, 2018 First “real” session (no more paperwork to fill out!). Francis is gone for 10 days on some kind of “mission trip” so Dr. Whitehead was the primary presenter. She showed a video of a TED talk by a woman who had had massive body injuries and accompanying pain and told her story…