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It's National Volunteer Week and I've been honoured to receive so many individual thank you messages from folks at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), the McGill Faculty of Medicine, and several of the other hospitals, medical schools, universities, and organizations with which I've volunteered over the past 12 months.

The University of Alberta, the University of Ottawa, the Canadian Pain Society, the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (Pain Science Division), Healthcare Excellence Canada, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH), and a number of others...

I may be limited by my "mild cognitive impairment" - a result of my CRPS rare disease - but I'm happy to know that I can still put my bioethics and healthcare experience to good use, as a volunteer Patient Partner and co-author in research and education projects targeting healthcare professionals ... Particularly in the area of chronic pain. 

And I'm proud to help train the next generation of medical and health sciences students and trainees in pain management and pain conditions , so that others living with pain can get better health*care*.

And, of course, to show through my art the therapeutic benefits of art practice! Whether the brain-plasticy aspects of learning and applying new skills, or the meditative time spent contemplating a scene, planning a painting, and then actually creating an artwork, this watercolour journey has definitely brought me health benefits... and joy.