St Francis Hospital  West Ashley

Tuesday  JANUARY 8, 2019

NOON til 2:00 PM

Meeting room #2 Off the Atrium

***THIS IS A NEW ROOM FOR US**JUST NEXT DOOR TO OUR OLD ROOM***

Across from the cafeteria

Grab some lunch or bring some and join us for a talk/discussion about DEALING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS with our guest talker (We don't have speakers)  DEAN SCHUYLER, a recently retired psychiatrist who comes to visit and share thoughts with us about once a year or so.  Dean has spent the past 9 years working at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Hospital here in Charleston. This VA has an unusuual inpatient unit: a 20 bed ward for patients later in life.  To quote Dean: "There, mostly older men with major medical illness are hospitalized to spend their later years.  Alll have doctors, and many have been told they would live for a discrete period of time.  I have learned that physicians may know a lot about disease processes, but know little about longevity.  The key to my work with people with chronic illness who have a lot of time to think is the thoughts that they have.  I remind my patients  (some inpatients and some outpatients) that we all have thoughts.  They have a lot of time to think and focus on the thoughts that they have.  This tends to be a poor strategy.  It is usually better to direct your mind elsewhere. "So come join the talk and the discussion on just what we need to be doing with our minds/thoughts as we strive to live long, useful, and enjoyable lives with our ostomies that saved our lives.

AND SOME NEWS ABOUT OUR MARCH 12, 2019 MEETING, A NEW PENILE IMPLANT PATIENT HAS VOLUNTEERED TO COME TELL US ALL ABOUT HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE*****AND TO BRING HIS DOCTOR ALONG TO GIVE US THE TECHNICAL/MEDICAL SIDE OF THE IMPLANT.  PLEASE TELL ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MAY BE CONSIDERING THIS PROCEDURE THAT ALL ARE WELCOME AT THIS MEETING WHICH WILL ALSO BE IN MEETING ROOM # 2 (WE WILL BE IN THAT ROOM ALL YEAR EXCEPT FOR ONE MONTH.)AND SOME NEWS ABOUT OUR MARCH 12, 2019 MEETING, A NEW PENILE IMPLANT PATIENT HAS VOLUNTEERED TO COME TELL US ALL ABOUT HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE*****AND TO BRING HIS DOCTOR ALONG TO GIVE US THE TECHNICAL/MEDICAL SIDE OF THE IMPLANT.  PLEASE TELL ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MAY BE CONSIDERING THIS PROCEDURE THAT ALL ARE WELCOME AT THIS MEETING WHICH WILL ALSO BE IN MEETING ROOM # 2 (WE WILL BE IN THAT ROOM ALL YEAR EXCEPT FOR ONE MONTH.) 

Ellen Millhouse 

West Ashley

843-708-9917

David Whitfield

North Area

843-345-5541

Sara Stello

MUSC  Digestive Disease Coordinator

843-876-5921

Jean Brown  

Georgetown

Dick/Linda Koehler 

Goose Creek
Van Herridge 

Facilitator/Video Creator
Phill Botham CWON, Botham Consulting Services

GCUOAA Webmaster, Youth Rally Nurse
Allyson Malick CWON, CFCN

VA Hospital
Bobbie Rinard  CWON/Cerified Wound Ostomy Nurse