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Back to School: Freedom to Choose

Parents of Grade 5 children in Calgary are receiving the ‘dreaded’ consent to vaccinate letter for booster shots. Alberta Health Services has teamed up with the public health education system to send out forms for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine) as well as for Hepatitis B and Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus vaccine. (DPT) That … Read more

Grandmother Wisdom

        “One grandmother is worth two M.D.s.” -Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Today I was stuck for a newsletter topic. I could have written about Tick Born Encephalitis but I figured everyone had had enough of bugs and brain swelling. I could have tapped an old newsletter but that did not feel right. What to do? I read … Read more

Homeo-symptoms

Last week’s newsletter very briefly covered a couple of very serious diseases, Blastomycosis and Lyme Disease. If you missed, check it out here. Blastomycosis was a new one for me but Lyme disease is something that is in the news these days so, I had some notion of what was involved with its flu-like symptom picture. In terms … Read more

I’m Ba-a-a-ck! With Bugs and Blasto

A big thank-you to Linda Miller for filling in while I was on a 2 week holiday in Manitoba and Lake of the Woods, Ontario. I deeply appreciated time away from deadlines and schedules. Just in Case You Travel to Lake of the Woods While away I discovered something about myself. You can take the … Read more