Sandra Woods, Montréal 🍁
@sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Bioethicist become patient; 2 rare diseases & chronic pain (CRPS + FMD).
Artist, Air Force reserve Veteran, Patient Partner & Co-author in pain research, outdoor sports enthusiast.
Artist, Air Force reserve Veteran, Patient Partner & Co-author in pain research, outdoor sports enthusiast.
Happy Thanksgiving - from Montréal 🍁 - to all my friends in the US today! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy Thanksgiving - from Montréal 🍁 - to all my friends in the US today! 🦃
Celebrating #WorldWatercolorDay with a look back at some 2025 media coverage! 📰 📺
This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...
This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Celebrating #WorldWatercolorDay with a look back at some 2025 media coverage! 📰 📺
This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...
This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...
Remembrance Day 🍁
. My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy
. His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany
. My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles
. Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️
. My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy
. His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany
. My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles
. Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Remembrance Day 🍁
. My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy
. His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany
. My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles
. Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️
. My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy
. His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany
. My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles
. Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️
Happy that this "haunted house" painting of a nearby historic home has found a new home in time for #Halloween!
~ Watercolour on cotton-paper
~ Watercolour on cotton-paper
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy that this "haunted house" painting of a nearby historic home has found a new home in time for #Halloween!
~ Watercolour on cotton-paper
~ Watercolour on cotton-paper
Have chronic low back (lumbar) pain? 😖
In Montréal? 🍁
Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥
The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯
I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!
In Montréal? 🍁
Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥
The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯
I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Have chronic low back (lumbar) pain? 😖
In Montréal? 🍁
Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥
The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯
I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!
In Montréal? 🍁
Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥
The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯
I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!
My watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but hopefully it's good luck for the @torontobluejays.bsky.social - from Montréal 🍁
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but hopefully it's good luck for the @torontobluejays.bsky.social - from Montréal 🍁
It's the final week of the inaugural #art show at the new Viva Vida Gallery in Vaudreuil, just outside of Montréal! 🎨
Two of my more experimental #watercolour paintings were juried into this exhibition;
. a Tree frog contemplating its reflection in a pond 🐸
. "Tulip or Wineglass"🌷🍷
#ArtDespitePain
Two of my more experimental #watercolour paintings were juried into this exhibition;
. a Tree frog contemplating its reflection in a pond 🐸
. "Tulip or Wineglass"🌷🍷
#ArtDespitePain
October 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It's the final week of the inaugural #art show at the new Viva Vida Gallery in Vaudreuil, just outside of Montréal! 🎨
Two of my more experimental #watercolour paintings were juried into this exhibition;
. a Tree frog contemplating its reflection in a pond 🐸
. "Tulip or Wineglass"🌷🍷
#ArtDespitePain
Two of my more experimental #watercolour paintings were juried into this exhibition;
. a Tree frog contemplating its reflection in a pond 🐸
. "Tulip or Wineglass"🌷🍷
#ArtDespitePain
October 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Week 2 of "The Great Canadian Art Show" = Another chance to vote for my 2 paintings... or any that you like! 🗳
Click the link & choose a participating artist from the drop-down list (red box, after text) - or browse the entire show & vote for what touches you.
artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...
Click the link & choose a participating artist from the drop-down list (red box, after text) - or browse the entire show & vote for what touches you.
artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Week 2 of "The Great Canadian Art Show" = Another chance to vote for my 2 paintings... or any that you like! 🗳
Click the link & choose a participating artist from the drop-down list (red box, after text) - or browse the entire show & vote for what touches you.
artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...
Click the link & choose a participating artist from the drop-down list (red box, after text) - or browse the entire show & vote for what touches you.
artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...
Ever wondered how a #watercolour #painting in progress looks? 🖌
The large unpainted echinacea or coneflower, most obvious in the 3rd photo, will be the focal point of this mostly circular 12" x 12" composition ... so I'll paint it last, after I've finished all the background 🎨
#ArtDespitePain
The large unpainted echinacea or coneflower, most obvious in the 3rd photo, will be the focal point of this mostly circular 12" x 12" composition ... so I'll paint it last, after I've finished all the background 🎨
#ArtDespitePain
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Ever wondered how a #watercolour #painting in progress looks? 🖌
The large unpainted echinacea or coneflower, most obvious in the 3rd photo, will be the focal point of this mostly circular 12" x 12" composition ... so I'll paint it last, after I've finished all the background 🎨
#ArtDespitePain
The large unpainted echinacea or coneflower, most obvious in the 3rd photo, will be the focal point of this mostly circular 12" x 12" composition ... so I'll paint it last, after I've finished all the background 🎨
#ArtDespitePain
We're both wearing orange today because #EveryChildMatters & for #TruthAndReconciliation
This t-shirt design is Gitxsan Hand by artist Michelle Stoney
This t-shirt design is Gitxsan Hand by artist Michelle Stoney
September 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We're both wearing orange today because #EveryChildMatters & for #TruthAndReconciliation
This t-shirt design is Gitxsan Hand by artist Michelle Stoney
This t-shirt design is Gitxsan Hand by artist Michelle Stoney
My deepest condolences to all who knew Edmonton's "canoeing & cycling doctor", Darren Markland @drdagly.bsky.social 🧭
We never met, but connected pre-pandemic over bioethics & healthcare policy - then stayed connected for canoeing, coffee, cycling, & nature scenes 🛶🚲☕️🏞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We never met, but connected pre-pandemic over bioethics & healthcare policy - then stayed connected for canoeing, coffee, cycling, & nature scenes 🛶🚲☕️🏞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My deepest condolences to all who knew Edmonton's "canoeing & cycling doctor", Darren Markland @drdagly.bsky.social 🧭
We never met, but connected pre-pandemic over bioethics & healthcare policy - then stayed connected for canoeing, coffee, cycling, & nature scenes 🛶🚲☕️🏞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We never met, but connected pre-pandemic over bioethics & healthcare policy - then stayed connected for canoeing, coffee, cycling, & nature scenes 🛶🚲☕️🏞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Do You Really See What I See? Interesting piece in @medscape.com about whether humans all see & interpret colour in the same way 🟠🟧 👀 🧠
#art #neuroscience
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
#art #neuroscience
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Do You Really See What I See? Interesting piece in @medscape.com about whether humans all see & interpret colour in the same way 🟠🟧 👀 🧠
#art #neuroscience
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
#art #neuroscience
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Last chance!🎯
If you're in #Vancouver, stop by the Federation of Canadian Artists' "Federation Gallery" on Granville Island - before the AIMAE exhibition of small paintings ends tomorrow (Sept 7) 🖼
Keep an eye out for my #ChronicPain painting Eruption of Pain, near the front door!
#artdespitepain
If you're in #Vancouver, stop by the Federation of Canadian Artists' "Federation Gallery" on Granville Island - before the AIMAE exhibition of small paintings ends tomorrow (Sept 7) 🖼
Keep an eye out for my #ChronicPain painting Eruption of Pain, near the front door!
#artdespitepain
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Last chance!🎯
If you're in #Vancouver, stop by the Federation of Canadian Artists' "Federation Gallery" on Granville Island - before the AIMAE exhibition of small paintings ends tomorrow (Sept 7) 🖼
Keep an eye out for my #ChronicPain painting Eruption of Pain, near the front door!
#artdespitepain
If you're in #Vancouver, stop by the Federation of Canadian Artists' "Federation Gallery" on Granville Island - before the AIMAE exhibition of small paintings ends tomorrow (Sept 7) 🖼
Keep an eye out for my #ChronicPain painting Eruption of Pain, near the front door!
#artdespitepain
"FDA has approved cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride sublingual tablets...
first-in-class, nonopioid treatment for adults with #fibromyalgia, a #ChronicPain syndrome that affects more than 10 million Americans, roughly 80% of whom are women"
Via @medscape.com
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
first-in-class, nonopioid treatment for adults with #fibromyalgia, a #ChronicPain syndrome that affects more than 10 million Americans, roughly 80% of whom are women"
Via @medscape.com
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
August 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"FDA has approved cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride sublingual tablets...
first-in-class, nonopioid treatment for adults with #fibromyalgia, a #ChronicPain syndrome that affects more than 10 million Americans, roughly 80% of whom are women"
Via @medscape.com
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
first-in-class, nonopioid treatment for adults with #fibromyalgia, a #ChronicPain syndrome that affects more than 10 million Americans, roughly 80% of whom are women"
Via @medscape.com
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
"Eruption of Pain" is part of a series of my #ChronicPain paintings, as part of my #ArtDespitePain initiative 🖼
It's on display through Sept 7 at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, after being juried into an international exhibition presented by the Federation of Canadian Artists ✨️
It's on display through Sept 7 at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, after being juried into an international exhibition presented by the Federation of Canadian Artists ✨️
August 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Eruption of Pain" is part of a series of my #ChronicPain paintings, as part of my #ArtDespitePain initiative 🖼
It's on display through Sept 7 at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, after being juried into an international exhibition presented by the Federation of Canadian Artists ✨️
It's on display through Sept 7 at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver, after being juried into an international exhibition presented by the Federation of Canadian Artists ✨️
Heard the #montrealhighlandgames are canceled this year, so here's an August event to add to your calendar instead💥
Visit the studios of artists across the #WestIsland, for free! 🎨
Saturday Aug 16th; 17th if it rains ☔️
My studio still has a few paintings of Scotland left! 🏴
@caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
Visit the studios of artists across the #WestIsland, for free! 🎨
Saturday Aug 16th; 17th if it rains ☔️
My studio still has a few paintings of Scotland left! 🏴
@caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Heard the #montrealhighlandgames are canceled this year, so here's an August event to add to your calendar instead💥
Visit the studios of artists across the #WestIsland, for free! 🎨
Saturday Aug 16th; 17th if it rains ☔️
My studio still has a few paintings of Scotland left! 🏴
@caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
Visit the studios of artists across the #WestIsland, for free! 🎨
Saturday Aug 16th; 17th if it rains ☔️
My studio still has a few paintings of Scotland left! 🏴
@caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
In the Montréal area? 🍁
Save the date, for the first-ever West Island Art Studio Circuit! 📅
Free visits to artists' studios, creative discovery, and more🎨
Fiind out who's creating art in the heART of our communities💥
Sat Aug 16, 10 am to 4 pm
☔️ Aug 17 in case of rain
#montreal #arts
Save the date, for the first-ever West Island Art Studio Circuit! 📅
Free visits to artists' studios, creative discovery, and more🎨
Fiind out who's creating art in the heART of our communities💥
Sat Aug 16, 10 am to 4 pm
☔️ Aug 17 in case of rain
#montreal #arts
July 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy Canada Day, folks 🇨🇦
This may not be a perfect country (which is?!), but it sure is better than many others 🍁
This may not be a perfect country (which is?!), but it sure is better than many others 🍁
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy Canada Day, folks 🇨🇦
This may not be a perfect country (which is?!), but it sure is better than many others 🍁
This may not be a perfect country (which is?!), but it sure is better than many others 🍁
This #watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but it's a good example of my #ArtDespitePain initiative - using art to distract my brain from my #chronicpain due to #crps 🧠
What creative activities would YOU try, for pain? 💥
DYK? When I started in 2021, I couldn't even draw a stick-figure!✏️
What creative activities would YOU try, for pain? 💥
DYK? When I started in 2021, I couldn't even draw a stick-figure!✏️
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This #watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but it's a good example of my #ArtDespitePain initiative - using art to distract my brain from my #chronicpain due to #crps 🧠
What creative activities would YOU try, for pain? 💥
DYK? When I started in 2021, I couldn't even draw a stick-figure!✏️
What creative activities would YOU try, for pain? 💥
DYK? When I started in 2021, I couldn't even draw a stick-figure!✏️
After a brilliant talk by @jarisswidrovich.bsky.social at @napainschool.bsky.social I chatted with 2 at #napainschool about a horrific Quebec policy - in place until recently here due to systemic racism & colonialism in healthcare & health policy; and promised to send info on a good book about it
June 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
After a brilliant talk by @jarisswidrovich.bsky.social at @napainschool.bsky.social I chatted with 2 at #napainschool about a horrific Quebec policy - in place until recently here due to systemic racism & colonialism in healthcare & health policy; and promised to send info on a good book about it
My step count from dancing last night, after the @napainschool.bsky.social graduation ceremony... before my watch-tracker reset at midnight, but while we were still dancing the night away (19,158 steps!) 🎶🎵🎶
I'm sure MANY of you had even more steps from "dance therapy"! 😉
I'm sure MANY of you had even more steps from "dance therapy"! 😉
June 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
My step count from dancing last night, after the @napainschool.bsky.social graduation ceremony... before my watch-tracker reset at midnight, but while we were still dancing the night away (19,158 steps!) 🎶🎵🎶
I'm sure MANY of you had even more steps from "dance therapy"! 😉
I'm sure MANY of you had even more steps from "dance therapy"! 😉
Parting thought for @napainschool.bsky.social ✨️
A French 'poem board' along the trail near the hotel is an excerpt from a letter by Montréal lawyer & politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786 - 1871) to his son Amédée on June 30, 1855; almost 170 years ago ✒️
My rough & modern translation...
A French 'poem board' along the trail near the hotel is an excerpt from a letter by Montréal lawyer & politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786 - 1871) to his son Amédée on June 30, 1855; almost 170 years ago ✒️
My rough & modern translation...
June 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Parting thought for @napainschool.bsky.social ✨️
A French 'poem board' along the trail near the hotel is an excerpt from a letter by Montréal lawyer & politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786 - 1871) to his son Amédée on June 30, 1855; almost 170 years ago ✒️
My rough & modern translation...
A French 'poem board' along the trail near the hotel is an excerpt from a letter by Montréal lawyer & politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786 - 1871) to his son Amédée on June 30, 1855; almost 170 years ago ✒️
My rough & modern translation...
Need some comfort after the pain-testing workshop at @napainschool.bsky.social ?
The adorable hotel dog is ready for some cuddles, near the front door 🐕
The adorable hotel dog is ready for some cuddles, near the front door 🐕
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Need some comfort after the pain-testing workshop at @napainschool.bsky.social ?
The adorable hotel dog is ready for some cuddles, near the front door 🐕
The adorable hotel dog is ready for some cuddles, near the front door 🐕