I wrote this entry first in April of last year, but with my mother's illness and my decision to write about it, I felt it made sense to post this again.

The aim of this blog is to be helpful - for clients who come to see me, for fellow health professionals, and for other website visitors. It's pretty obvious that I may be able to offer something useful from my knowledge and...

Here's a gutsy, nutritional, low sunlight kind of blog post to suit our post-holiday season.  First the gutsy bit.  Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - with its characteristic symptoms of abdominal pain, altered bowel habit, and possibly bloating - is very common, affecting about 15% of the population. ...

Sadness.  I woke feeling sad ... aching in my chest and then in my gut.  Not awful, just like a dull toothache, or a hurt, a wound.  Yesterday when I visited my mother in the Stroke Unit of Liberton Hospital, one of the more senior nurses came up to me as I was leaving asking to have a word with me.  She said that they were now waiting to transfer Mum away from the Unit to a geriatric...