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January 12, 2018 MaryO

Your Cushing’s site is very valuable to the medical community and should be looked at as a resource of knowledge from people experiencing first hand what the medical community writes.

From a comment on this post: CushieWiki

🦓 Day 8: Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2021
Today, April 8th, is Cushing's Awareness Day. Please wear your Cushing's ribbons, t-shirts, awareness bracelets or Cushing's colors (blue and yellow) and hand out Robin’s wonderful Awareness Cards to get a discussion going with anyone who will listen. And don’t just raise awareness on April 8. Any day is a good day to raise awareness.
🍰 Harvey Cushing: The father of modern neurosurgery
Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) is considered to be the father of modern neurological surgery. In the early part of the 20th century, he developed basic techniques and instruments for operating on the brain and, as a result, founded the discipline as a distinct surgical speciality. Before Cushing began his career, brain tumours were considered to be inoperable, a […]
🐝 Bee’s Knees 8
This is a continuation of an ongoing knee issue. It started in 2013 with Icy Days and Mondays and Bee’s Knees I’m hoping to end my knee pain in the very near future… Monday, April 5, I got that injection – and a lot of hope, finally. For my fourth injection, I had a fourth different doctor. This one had other options for me that no one else had every suggest […]
🦓 Day 7, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2021
On Becoming Empowered. Adapted from my blog post Participatory Medicine. This is kind of a “cheat” post since it’s a compilation of other posts, web pages, message board posts and some original thoughts. I wrote it to submit to Robin’s Grand Rounds, hosted on her blog.
🦓 Day 6: Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2021
In Day 9 on April 9, 2015, I wrote about how we got the Cushing’s colors of blue and yellow. This post is going to be about the first Cushing’s ribbons.
📞 Celebrate 20 Years-Pituitary Patient Support Group
Please Join Us to Celebrate 20 Years-Pituitary Patient Support Group. Saturday April 10, 2021: 9:00am-11:00am (PST) (Scroll below for Zoom meeting links) We invite you to join the conversation with our experts: Pejman Cohan, neuroendocrinologist & Daniel Kelly, neurosurgery.
🦓 Day 5, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2021
In Day 9 on April 9, 2015, I wrote about how we got the Cushing’s colors of blue and yellow. This post is going to be about the first Cushing’s ribbons.
🏞 One New Cushie added to the Cushing's MemberMap
Cheryl is from Mount Dora, Florida. She had a bilateral adrenalectomy (BLA) after two failed pituitary surgeries.
⁉️ Cushing’s Myths and Facts: Cushing’s is RARE, No one has Cushing’s!
Myth: “Cushing’s is RARE”, “No one has Cushing’s!”, “It is literally impossible for you to have Cushing’s Disease!”
🦓 Day 4, Cushing’s Awareness Challenge 2021
Our “Official mascot” is the zebra. In med school, student doctors are told “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras“.

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