Tag Archives: illness

Financial Planning: Preparing for the “What If?”

By Julie Laurin | Published: May 4, 2011

After I was done work today, I pulled up my RSS Reader to catch-up with some of the financial blogs I like to read regularly. I’ll make a list of them later on so you can check them out too. I’ve written before about how rare it is to be able to talk finance with [...]

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How to make the health care system better in Canada

By Julie Laurin | Published: April 29, 2010

I need to get an Upper GI test done.  The doctor has referred me to the hospital here in Ottawa.  I got a call from them today telling me that the soonest they can get me in is at the end of May.  They couldn’t give me an exact date yet.  They said I’d get [...]

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It won’t happen to me! (until it does)

By Julie Laurin | Published: April 7, 2010

I’ve always been pretty unlucky.  I’m fairly clumsy, I’m accident-prone and I tend to catch whatever virus is out there.  I’m used to it, I’ve learned to live with being genetically-flawed and a bit of a klutz.  But this year has been the worst for me so far.  I’ve been more sick than at any [...]

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