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Have you watched or heard about this reality TV show called Hoarders? It’s what it sounds like -- people who save everything until trash completely dominates their home and their life. I’ve ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Chronic Illness Neuroses?

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How do we make the invisible visible? I talk to people with chronic illness every day who are homebound and paying a terrible price for their illness. • A little kid being referred to truancy ...

We Have To Change The World

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Have you watched or heard about this reality TV show called Hoarders? It’s what it sounds like -- people who save everything until trash completely dominates their home and their life. I’ve ...

Chronic Illness Neuroses?

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The first time I met Gloria Steinem was at a Voters for Choice fundraiser. We'd spoken by phone before that -- I'll never forget the first time I heard her unmistakable voice on my voicemail. My ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Gloria In Her Own Words

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I have been asked to give a talk to a number of other patients with Crohn’s disease. The topic has been left up to me, but they don’t want the usual summary of the law or a tour of the health ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Me, Inspiring?

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The first time I met Gloria Steinem was at a Voters for Choice fundraiser. We'd spoken by phone before that -- I'll never forget the first time I heard her unmistakable voice on my voicemail. My ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Gloria In Her Own Words

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The first time I met Gloria Steinem was at a Voters for Choice fundraiser. We'd spoken by phone before that -- I'll never forget the first time I heard her unmistakable voice on my voicemail. My ...

Gloria In Her Own Words

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We have a very tough case at the moment – a young woman with an eating disorder who needs long-term residential treatment, but her insurance company thinks two weeks is enough. The injustice of ...

Obesity Therapy

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I recently reviewed a disability insurance denial to try to help a patient develop a strategy for how to proceed to try to get her disability. Under her disability insurance policy, she was ...

Chronic Illness Fatigue

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I’ve read all of the health reform laws, as well as most of the regulations. So I consider myself pretty well informed on the subject. It’s my job to be up to date on this. After all, I answer ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Have An Open Mind About Health Reform: An Editorial

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I’ve read all of the health reform laws, as well as most of the regulations. So I consider myself pretty well informed on the subject. It’s my job to be up to date on this. After all, I answer ...

Have An Open Mind About Health Reform: An Editorial

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I have been asked to give a talk to a number of other patients with Crohn’s disease. The topic has been left up to me, but they don’t want the usual summary of the law or a tour of the health ...

Me, Inspiring?

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I work 12 to 15 hours a day, five days a week. That would be a lot for a healthy person; for a person with two serious chronic illnesses, it’s near insanity. What it means, though, is that I ...

For the Love of Emily--How Our Pets Are Always There for Us

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As I’m sure you know, several states and others have sued to try to stop the health reform law from taking full effect. If you’re not a lawyer, it’s hard to follow exactly what’s going on, so I ...

Health Reform in Court: What’s it All About?

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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Have you ever heard of gastroparesis? First of all, it’s pronounced gas-tro-pah-REE-sus, and it’s a digestive disorder fairly well-known to diabetics, who seem to be the majority of ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Deborah Ross' post Learn a Few Things About Gastroparesis

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as health reform) provides several benefits of interest to women. First, preventive care is free. This includes your annual ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post Health Reform Benefits for Women

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as health reform) provides several benefits of interest to women. First, preventive care is free. This includes your annual ...

Health Reform Benefits for Women

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Jennifer Jaff's post The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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It is no secret that women make up a majority of the approximately 25 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ...

The Affordable Care Act – Hope for Women in Pain--An Editorial

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With news of increasing diagnoses of Crohn’s disease and colitis, it becomes more and more likely that you know someone affected by one of these stomach conditions or that you are affected. It ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Deborah Ross' post Team Walks Raise Awareness About Crohn's Disease, Colitis

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This has been an unusual year for us at Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness. In previous years, come the fall, we’ve gotten a load of requests for assistance from parents of students with ...

Legal Rights of Students with Chronic Illness

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The past month has been tough for me. Actually, several months. We lost an insurance appeal that really was about life and death, and the reasoning was so perverse and so wrong that it was ...

We Have to Change the World--An Editorial

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he was misdignosed 6 times and in hospitals so many times until we finally said thats enough so we took him to the mayo clinic thats were they found out it was gastroparesis the doctor told us he ...

Jennifer Jaff commented on Anonymous' post doctors that can insert a paise maker in the stomach in California

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The Commonwealth Fund released a report on May 11, 2011 on the state of women’s health. It’s not good. Women typically have greater health care needs than men, especially during their ...

Women at Risk: The Status of Our Health Care

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If your application is denied, it's important that you appeal rather than giving up and starting over. When you win, Social Security often pays you a lump sum that covers the period from the date ...

Social Security – If Your Claim Is Denied

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I get a lot of questions about Social Security disability. The most common question we get is whether there's any way to speed up the process. The truth is that, if you're denied at the initial ...

Social Security Disability – The Basics

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects people with disabilities from discrimination, and requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled employees. That sounds ...

The ADA’s Loophole for the Chronically Ill--An Editorial

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My colleague, Nicole Netkin-Collins, spent a semester in Australia last year, and wrote a thesis on paid parental leave that surveyed the law in several countries. I learned a lot from her, so I ...

Paid Parental Leave: The Time Has Come

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Chronic illness is different from illness that gets cured and illness from which you die. It never, ever, ever goes away. It may go into remission, but it’s always there, like a sleeping dragon ...

Living with Chronic Illness: My Experience with Crohn's Disease

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We conducted a study with our partners at the University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease on the obstacles facing the chronically ill and the strategies used to surmount them. The ...

Family and Medical Leave--Why it is Critical to Women

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I’m a 53-year-old lawyer with Crohn’s disease and gastroparesis. I had a pretty exceptional career as a trial lawyer until my Crohn’s disease stopped me, nearly dead in my tracks. I started ...

My Experience with Crohn's Disease and How it Has Led Me to Help Others