Category: Health

Frontline Workers: Trauma & PTSD – Anxiety Canada Town Hall

If you, or someone you know, is a frontline worker or first responder, join us to learn how to manage trauma, grief, and loss. Have questions? Ask our experts in the live chat. Our featured guests include: Mark Antczak (Host), Anxiety Canada’s very own in-house Health Educator and Clinical Counselor Dr. Katy Kamkar, Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Dr. Carmen McLean, Clinical Psychologist at the Dissemination and Training Division of the National Center for PTSD at the Palo Alto VA and a Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliate) at Stanford University

How Doctors Turned A Beautiful Baby Girl Into An Even More Beautiful Baby Girl. This Is Great.

When this little girl, Emma, was only six months old her parents noticed something was wrong. It looks as if she is just making funny faces, but there was an underlying condition. She was basically born with crooked eyes and her pediatrician was unable to diagnose her at 3 or 5 months. So, they began on a journey to correct their little girl’s eyes.

The pediatrician didn’t think that the condition would be permanent, thus the lack of diagnosis.

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As the months progressed (4 months)…

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Her eyes didn’t correct themselves (5 months).

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Finally, at 6 months, her parents knew something needed to be done.

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At 8 months old, she got her first pair of glasses (which were adorable).

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She looked quite fancy at her baptism.

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“Because the pediatrician failed to see her strabismus earlier on, she developed a lazy eye. She has a big preference for her left eye and will use it whenever she can, so we had to patch it in order to force her to use her right eye.”

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At 14 months she was getting pretty used to her life with glasses.

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And finally, the day of the surgery to correct the esotropia-strabismus.

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After the surgery, Emma’s eyes would have felt like sandpaper. She was pretty upset (and it was pretty heartbreaking).

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Finally sleeping with mommy.

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Her eyes were sensitive to light at first, so the nurses gave her some pink star glasses that she loved.

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Now, Emma’s sight is much better and she doesn’t require the patch or glasses for now. What a cutie.

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Congenital esotropia is a type of strabismus that appears within the first 6 months. The reason Emma’s doctor might have overlooked the diagnosis was because in the first months of life, it is common for the eyes to intermittently become misaligned. However, if that misalignment persists, that’s when you should take your baby to see pediatric ophthalmologist. Source: Reddit We’re so happy Emma’s surgery had a happy ending! Share her journey with others by clicking on the button below.

Read more: http://viralnova.com/baby-girl-eye-surgery/

What Does Having Anxiety & Depression Feel Like? | TMI Show

On this episode of the TMI Show, Torri (Parade’s Resident Health Question Guru), covers everything you need to know about anxiety and depression. Torri beaks down the difference between the two, what each one entails, and possible solutions for both. Do you get overwhelmed with all the information that is out there on health and wellness topics you want to know more about? On the TMI Show, we solve that problem and bring you everything you need to know to answer the sometimes complicated, sometimes confusing, medical questions life throws our way! Do you have a TMI question for Torri? Comment below to have your question answered! Don’t want to share your question in the comments? We got you covered, send us a message at tmiquestions@parade.com. Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVoB13ziHcg-ummWqZYhAQ/?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parademag Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParadeMagazine Online: http://parade.com/

Twitter war: Axelrod vs. Romney

http://twitter.com/#!/MittRomney/status/181173095506251777

Just a few minutes after Mitt Romney’s tweet, the former senior advisor to President Obama began “correcting” (in his opinion) Romney. Here’s the graphic Romney posted to his campaign website (which is where the link above will take you):

And here is the response from Axelrod:

@MittRomney @barackobama Wrong, Governor. When this POTUS walked in the door, he was handed a trillion $ deficit and epic economic crisis.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 18, 2012

@MittRomney @barackobama And the unpaid tax cuts and increased defense spending you've proposed would add 5 trillion to the debt.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 18, 2012

As we have called for before, these two need to debate it out. Not Axelrod, but President Obama and Romney. It would make for one interesting night.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/03/17/to-no-surprise-axelrod-is-complaining-through-twitter-again/