KosAbility Upcoming Schedule

We meet Sundays 7pm eastkost time, 4pm leftkost, usually 3-3½ hrs to fit a part of everyone's afternoon/evening. We also publish & republish over the week (kosmail to the group to request repub &/or when you queue a diary so our working admins can facilitate.) UPCOMING SCHEDULES POST BETWEEN WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. See our archive for diary examples & good reading& our logobox for more about Sundays or to reach our coordinator postmodernista.
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August 24 - "Living with Brittle Diabetes from the Caregiver Viewpoint" - by michelewln August 31 - "Lunch with Two People who Suffer from Schizophrenia" by recoveringConservative September 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite easy recipe! Sept 14 "Fibromyalgia MAY Now Be Treated Effectively...So To Speak: 150+ Free Links to Medical Journal Discussions, Arguments & Research on-&-related to FM treatment; + some views of my own" - by mettle fatigue Sept 21  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and your diary here, too! Sept 28  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and even here! October 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite pet peeve! November 2 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite quote...other than yer sig line! December 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite(?) household disaster! January 4, 2015  - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke! February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker! February 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23” - by Steven Park March 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: April 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK:

The Agency for Health Research & Quality (US Dept HHS) says AUGUST is National Immunization Awareness Month and National Breastfreeding Month (b.t.w., a new victory for mothers & babies Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide time and space for new mothers to express milk for their babies until the child turns one year old) and National Psoriasis Awareness Month

MEDSCAPE & OTHER HEALTH-MED FREE LINK FINDS OF THE WEEK
See end of diary for introduction to free Medscape use.█Music Lessons Boost Brain Function, Learning Ability in Impoverished Kids█Shared Medical Appointments OK With Patients █ Elderly Profit From Group Meetings & Home Visits █ Can Sports Medicine Benefit Temperature-Sensitive Patients in Climate Change:"The Cooling Shirt" for Athletes█Nigeria Hopes to Eradicate Polio Despite Insurgency█The D.I.Y. Medical Tester █ Relationship Between Obesity and Exposure to Light at Night: Cross-Sectional Analyses of Over 100,000 Women in the Breakthrough Generations Study █NSAIDs [such as daily aspirin] May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence█Ebola Emergency & Experimental Drugs█Surge of Lawsuits Over Lipitor (atorvastatin) alleging that Pfizer knew of possible serious side effects but never properly warned the public] █Religiosity Associated With Less Depression in Elderly: Study (also has an excellent 4th ¶ on how/why correlations found in research are not equivalanet to causations, a fact most popular reportage fails to distinguish) █ Interim CDC Guidance for Polio Vaccination for Travel to and From Countries Affected by Wild Poliovirus█ Interactive Back-to-School Health quiz █ Commentary: Why Sex Differences in Basic Research Matter In the Clinic █Health Care Needs of Cancer Survivors in General Practice █the Neural Development of Trust and Cooperation █ Cologuard™[non-invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening █ Olfactory Dysfunction as Familial Biomarker for Schizophrenia █ India Declared Polio-Free, but Global Risks Persist █ 

Diaries can be 1 paragraph, 2 or 20. UNSCHEDULED DIARIES IN PLANNING/DRAFTING STAGE: ■ More on Music & Health, by Darwinian Detritus ■ Dyslexia, by duhban ■ Foods Good & Bad for Brain, Cognition, Mood, Dementia ■ The Personal Battle of Fibromyalgia, by Miang ■ The Good & Bad of Alcohol ■ Medical Marijuana Research & Med Journal Articles ■REQUESTED DIARY TOPICS:  ■ ICAM (integrative, complementary & alternative medicine) ■ Neuro-Endocrine Disruptors & Other Health Pollutants from Commerce, Industry, & Modern Chemicalized Life ■ Depression, Anxiety, & Related Emotional/Psychological/Neurological Issues Research & Discussion in Medical Conferences & Reportage ■ Do You Know Your Inherited/Familial Medical History & Genomics? ■ Health/Medical Resources Free to All ■ ...and whatever ELSE you our members have on your mind that you'd like to write about! For help & fun writing diaries, New Diarists is where to ask questions, get answers, find coaches/mentors, and learn new cool skills at your own pace. DK's version 5 promises improvements for diarying - ♥FOLLOWCranky Users to stay current on that info.

The Get Out The Vote 2014 group is asking past-or-present voters'-rights activists knowledgeable in facilitating registration and voting by differently-abled, disabled, housebound and chronically ill people —and to their polling places in jurisdictions that obstruct absentee balloting— to write or collaborate on a diary of those strategies & tactics, together with info from other resources. Contact ShoshannaD

KosAbility is a Sunday 7pm eastkost/4pm leftkost volunteer diarist community for people living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues. Our use of "disability" includes temporary as well as permanent health/medical conditions, from small, gnawing problems to major, life-threatening ones. Our use of "love someone" extends to cherished members of other species. Our discussions are open threads in the context of this community. Feel free to comment on the diary topic, ask questions of the diarist or generally to everyone, share something you've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about your situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered. If you are interested in contributing a diary, contact series coordinatorpostmodernista.