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Celebrate Life magazine is a quarterly publication provided free of charge to our home TPN and tube feeding consumers. Please feel free to read back issues of the magazine in our online archive below. If you would like to receive Celebrate Life on a quarterly basis, please sign up.

— Read and share some of our consumers' inspiring stories as extracts from Celebrate Life.

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	February 2013, Issue 30 Prevention & Preparedness in Nutrition Support Inside this Issue: CVAD Infection: Prevention Is In Your Hands Metabolic Bone Disease: Information for TPN Consumers When Disaster Strikes: How You Can Be Prepared Emmett Alsbrooks' Tale of Endurance Foodborne Illness from Tube Feeding: Understanding and Preventing the Risk As the Scouts Say, Be Prepared: Reducing Caregiver Stress by Being Prepared and Aware View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	December 2012, Issue 29 What's in TPN and Tube Feeding Formulas? Inside this Issue: Coram Pharmacy — Keeping Our Patients Safe It's All About Teamwork Home PN: The Way We Were! Meet Cory, Your New Travel Companion! The National Drug Shortage: How Is My Parenteral Nutrition Affected? What Goes Into a Tube Feeding? How our One-to-One Program Can Enrich Your Life View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	July 2012, Issue 28 Stories from Our Patients Inside this Issue: Don Young: A 37-year TPN Veteran Learn what life was like on TPN back in the 1960s, as well as Don's secrets for TPN success and longevity. Bonnie Adams: A Celebration of Life This inspiring woman found a way to get the tube feeding she needed so she could keep on enjoying life to its fullest. Kristy and Scott Shutka: Working Together to Create a New Normal When Kristy and Scott learned their newborn son would be on lifelong TPN, they realized they would have a very different lifestyle from what they had planned. Michelle Barford: Winner of the Oley Foundation's Celebration of Life Award Susan Eaton: Defining Her Own Life Susan started her TPN therapy 33 years ago, and has made the most of her experiences with TPN to become the strong, successful woman she is today. Connor Poole: Loves to Dance, Swim, Play in the Sand After months of difficult feeding and frustration, Stacie and Jason Poole finally received a diagnosis for their 6-month-old baby boy — a rare disease that makes eating by mouth very difficult. James Seals: A Life With — Not About — TPN When James became dependent on TPN in college, he refused to let it dictate his life. Twenty one years later, he is still doing exactly what he wants. Coram's Patient Relations Specialist Program: An Interview with Colette Christen View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	May 2012, Issue 27 Nutrition Support in Gastrointestinal Diseases Inside this Issue: Pancreatitis and Nutrition Support Short Bowel Syndrome & Bowel Rehabilitation: Reducing Your Need for Total Parenteral Nutrition Fistula Management: A Spectrum of Nutrition Care Avoiding Nutritional Complications Following Bariatric Surgery The Use of Tube Feeding in GI Disease Sharon and Ronald Frug: Celebrating Milestones Medication Management to Treat and Control the Symptoms of GI Diseases Advocacy Corner: Steering Clear of Complications View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	Jan. 2012, Issue 26 Pediatric Nutritional Support Inside this Issue: The Role of Nutrition in Optimizing Growth and Development Managing Nutrition Therapy at School The Essential Components of Success in Improving Oral Intake: Tactics Parents and Caregivers Can Try At Home In Good Hands: Preparing Your Child for a Medical Procedure Emily Koprucki: Life Lessons from a Teenager on Nutrition Support 2012 Small Steps to Big Steps Consumer Teleconference Series Pediatric Intestinal Failure-associated Liver Disease: Causes, Prevention and Treatment Giving Our Children Wings: A Journey of Independence for HPEN Families View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	Sept. 2011, Issue 25 The Importance of Nutritional Health when Coping with Cancer Inside this Issue: Quality of Life and Nutrition Support for the Cancer Patient Eating Healthy to Help Prevent Cancer The Effects of Cancer Therapy on Nutritional Well-Being Home Care Therapies for Cancer Patients My Great Adventure: TPN consumer, Michelle Barford's amazing story Tube Feeding: A Smart Weapon Against Cancer-Related Malnutrition In Case of a Drop in Cabin Pressure, Put Your Mask On First — A Survival Guide for the Caregiver of a Cancer Patient View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	Jun. 2011, Issue 24 Kidney Function and the Importance of Fluids and Electrolytes Inside this Issue: Fluids, Electrolytes, and Kidney Function... Oh, My! Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Fluids and Tube Feeding: Water — the Forgotten Nutrient Understanding and Monitoring Your Fluid and Electrolyte Balances Patients with CKD on Dialysis: The Potential Value of IPN and IDPN Gastrointestinal Disease in the CKD Patient Proactive vs. Reactive Advocacy — Taking Control View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	Jan. 2011, Issue 23 Inside this Issue: Diet and IBD — the Controversy & the Facts Diet Tips to Manage IBD Symptoms Use of Enteral Nutrition in Reducing IBD Incidence Medications to Control Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Controlling Ostomy Output Finding a Community Support Group View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	Nov. 2010, Issue 22 Inside this Issue: Optimizing Oral and Enteral Feedings with Intestinal Failure Just the Facts... Managing Chronic Pain Getting the Most Out of Your New Diet Medication Management of Chronic Intestinal Failure The Beauty of Mules The Importance of Living Wills View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

	April 2010, Issue 21 Inside this Issue: Antiemetic Options Just the Facts... Gastroparesis, What Do We Know? Enteral Feeding with Gastroparesis Managing Medication Shortages Answering the Call How to Manage Healthcare Claims Rejections View this issue (requires Adobe Acrobat)

Previous Issues Archived issues require Adobe Acrobat to view the PDFs. Celebrate Life, Fall 2009 Tips to Successfully Deliver Medication Through Your Feeding Tube Bacterial Overgrowth — The Silent Infection Dating Issues Industry Insights Inventory Management — The Consumer's Role Webinars and Websites Celebrate Life, Summer 2009 Ways to Keep Your Liver Healthy Strong Bones, Strong Body Clean, Safe Catheters Five Ways to Decrease Home TPN Dependence Anemia Answers Celebrate Life, Winter/Spring 2009 Keeping Yourself Safe in 2009: Infection Avoidance Long-Term Vascular Access Common Feeding Tube Complications New Consumer Focused Website Launched An Interview with Coram's President, Dan Greenleaf Celebrate Life, Fall 2008 Symptom Management: Nausea Control Caution! Looking Good Can Be Hazardous to Your Health Tube Feeding: Alleviating a Common Complaint How Parenteral Nutrition is Made Patient Update: Nutrition Product Changes Celebrate Life, Summer 2008 Symptom Management: Staying in Step with Activities Enteral Feedings for Children with Short Bowel Syndrome Proactive Interventions to Decrease Clogs in the Feeding Tube Celebrate Life, Spring 2008 Back in the Saddle: The Good, the Bad and the Beauty of Being a Caregiver A Few Thoughts About Exercise and Fitness Surf the Waves of HPEN Your Venous Access Device Celebrate Life, Winter 2008 Seven Steps to Success as a PN Consumer The Second Opinion: Access Your Options (or Alternatives) Fighting PSN — Parenteral Nutrtion Stress Celebrations and Dining Out The Oley Foundation, Coram and Apria

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