Our friend, ally and tenacious advocate Kyla got us an in-clinic appointment with Kaiser Oncology’s new (as of September) Palliative Care team. The doctor and nurse (the social worker was away) were compassionate, direct, and wonderfully useful in offering suggestions to help with Val’s pain, nausea, and difficulties breathing and Continue Reading
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I received a notice yesterday that I no longer qualify for protected family leave. Of course I never did qualify for FMLA, on account of being a woman in relationship with a woman, fourteen years of rich and complicated interaction the feds don’t deign to recognize or assist. But Oregon, Continue Reading