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My take on the 10th Australian Lymphology Association Conference in Auckland, Day 1
Where to begin. Well, let's just say there is no way I'm going to cover even a fraction of what I saw/heard at the 10th Australian Lymphology Association Conference,...
10th ALA Lymphoedema Conference
I won't have the time to write a proper blog post about the conference until I get back to Sydney next week, but I thought I'd share a few photos in the meantime. I'm...
A post from a client – arm lymphoedema following breast cancer
I often ask my clients to write guest posts for the blog and most of the time they say, "you do it". This week however, I'm posting for one of my clients, Cathy, who...
Inaugural Lipoedema Australia Support Society Conference
On Saturday 15th March 2014 I attended the first Lipoedema Australia Support Society (LASS) Conference in Sydney. This was a remarkable event on so many levels....
TEDx Manly – inspiring people in my neighbourhood
On Saturday 22nd February I did something very different with my afternoon. I went and listened to eight inspiring speakers and two musical acts at the first ever...
Lost a client … again
I lost a client last week. She had been part of my life for two and a half years and showed me how it is possible to have cancer but not to live a life of cancer. ...
Bras!!!
I had a very different afternoon on Friday. I pencilled it into the diary as "bra ladies" because that is exactly what it was, an afternoon of trying on bras. And not...
Listing on the National Lymphoedema Practitioners Register (NLPR(
A listing in the NLPR is the bees knees in the manual lymphatic drainage world. For those not in the know, NLPR stands for National Lymphoedema Practitioners...
Menopause
Somehow the word menopause gives me the heebie-jeebies. Hmm, does that say something about me? No comment. I seem to have a few ladies who are at that special time of...