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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.


Celebrate Life Archive

Issue 26

Jan. 2012, Issue 26
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

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Issue 25

Sept. 2011, Issue 25
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

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Issue 24

Jun. 2011, Issue 24
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

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Issue 23

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

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Issue 22

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

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Issue 21

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

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Previous Issues

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PDF 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
PDF 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
PDF 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
PDF 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
PDF 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
PDF 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
PDF 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