Carnival of Compassion #17

Welcome to the seventeenth edition of The Carnival of Compassion.

The purpose of this Carnival is to discuss how patients, their families and healthcare workers deal with life, death, healing and disease.

Each week a new host will be selected to organize and post the latest edition of the Carnival of Compassion on their blogsite.

To sign up to host a Carnival of Compassion head over to the submission page.

Patient Blogs

Minerva has been courageously fighting breast cancer for the past half year of her life. She brings her readers along on the emotional roller coaster that her illness brought to her life. She bravely lets you in on the side effects they don’t tell you about.

Sometimes you don’t know how much you’re loved until you have a life threatening disease.

Medical Advances and Technology

Cary Miller blogs that there is more evidence that dogs can detect cancer. These specially trained dogs have a 90% success rate and best of all they detect early stage cancer.

MedGadget brings us the latest in technology to help the blind. A new device called the learning retinal implant system can help blind people move independently in an unknown environment.

Caregiver Blogs

Peggy Lou Morgan reminds us that parenting autistic children you need the support of other special needs parents, even if they aren’t following your child’s therapy approach.

Newly Created Patient Blogs

Disabled hands is a new blog that contains tips, hacks and products for those with diminished hand function. The author will bring you news about everything from mobility devices to the easiest ways to open Ziploc bags.

David Arenson has chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He has created a site “with a more reflective bent, a place where someone offers freewheeling commentary on the whole scope of what it means to have leukemia: the choices one faces, the foibles of the medical establishment, the pain in the ass it all is, and the cosmic messages that might occasionally be found in it.”

This concludes the seventeenth edition of The Carnival of Compassion.

Next weeks carnival can be found at A Revision