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The Quiet Fight: Master Bombardier Bounyarattanaphon Makthepharak
It was Canada Day Eve, a special night for the soldiers at the main Canadian Forces Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Master Bombardier Bounyarattanaphon Makthepharak, fresh out of the shower after one of his gruelling gym workouts, was sitting [...]
November 6, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
The Quiet Fight: Retired Warrant Officer Terri Orser
“I didn’t tell anybody–for a long time. I was diagnosed way back when it was so taboo…. But I had it before that. I just didn’t know it.”
As Terri Orser talks about getting diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the former warrant officer fiddles with a [...]
November 6, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
The Quiet Fight: Testing The New Charter
It’s still early days in the life of the New Veterans Charter, but some initial assessments have crystallized since the government’s overhaul of veterans’ benefits and services took effect April 1, 2006.
Reviews so far have generally been favourable. That said, [...]
November 6, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
The Quiet Fight: Master Corporal Paul Franklin
ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY
Master Corporal Paul Franklin. “I get rock star parking.” As Master Corporal Paul Franklin pulls into the parking lot of Earls Restaurant in downtown Edmonton on a humid July day, he brings his Mini Cooper to a stop in one of the spots reserved [...]
November 6, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
Ste-Anne’s Hospital Develops Clinic For Pain
PHOTO: NATALIE SALAT
Monique Allard and Dr. Serge Gingras at Ste-Anne’s Hospital. Veterans often have to cope with mental as well as physical pain, but until recently these two types of injury have been treated separately. The new pain management clinic run by Veterans [...]
September 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
Patient, Be Wary
When Anne Lyddiatt went into hospital for major surgery a few months ago, she went with her eyes wide open–and with a perspective that relatively few patients have: “I have a nursing background, but I don’t disclose that.” She has also been a [...]
September 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
Searching Out Longevity
“I don’t have a secret. I’m just lucky.” World War II veteran Thyra Read offers a quick response when asked how she manages to stay so young. The former nursing sister may be just 11 years shy of her 100th birthday, but she certainly doesn’t [...]
July 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Anniversary On The Ridge
“In any national story there are moments and places, sometimes far from home, which in retrospect can be seen as fixed points about which the course of history turns—moments which distinguish that nation forever. Those who seek the [...]
July 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
Our Master Cells
The fact that Jennifer Molson can now motor around Ottawa in a stick-shift car is something of a wonder–not because it’s a complex task, but because Molson was confined to a wheelchair just a few years ago.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1996 at the age [...]
May 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
Health & Lifestyle
A Prescription For Change
In a country that spends $25 billion on drugs every year, it’s no wonder Canadians are getting to know their pharmacists pretty well. They may also notice that, these days, pharmacists are doing a lot more than “count, pour, lick and stick”; dispensing [...]
March 1, 2007, by Natalie Salat
