To improve communication between property managers, tenants and contractors, the William Pears Group found themselves in need of a system which would simplify the process of managing property repairs. Our team developed software to help the company to remain competitive in the property industry.
Oprias is a web-based property maintenance management software enabling its users to both communicate with tenants and contractors with just one click and store all the necessary information online. The solution provides time-saving and problem-solving maintenance management tools for property managers and tenants.
Contractors – to store and display contact details of all of the contractors including their certificates,
Jobs – to monitor repairs from anywhere at any time and to communicate with tenants and contractors with just one click,
Jobs – to schedule an appointment with the contractor, monitor repairs, and to communicate with property managers and contractors with just one click,
Automation - every day, property managers receive an automated message concerning new repair requests and updates on existing jobs which allows them to save time and be sure they handle all of the requests,
Communication – the possibility of sending messages directly from the platform reduces the need ofor phoning and e-mailing each of the parties as the discussion is open for property managers, tenants and contractors involved in a job,
Notifications – all stakeholders can set up and receive pop-up notifications concerning request updates and repair status changes,
Full visibility – tenants and contractors can view their tasks and finances without the need to involve the property manager,
Qube integration – having the accounts integrated allows all of the parties to store and display their invoices concerning either the property or the work order,
Document storage – all stakeholders can store documents concerning their property and access them anywhere at any time,
Category order – sorting jobs by categories enables property managers to create accurate reports and thus make better use of data they receive,
Attachments – contractors can upload high-quality photos and videos of the repair to update both property managers and tenants on their job progress,
Reporting – advanced analytical tools enable property managers to spot any inefficiencies and opportunities. To make data analysis even easier, they can save the reports as .pdf and .xlsx files.
Seeing an increase in the popularity of property management companies, the Hamways Property Management division of the William Pears Group knew they needed to gain a competitive advantage. Back in 2014, they asked us for a platform that would improve their workflow.
The results of deploying such platform are an ever-growing trust among tenants who can now play an active role in the whole maintenance process, increased efficiency achieved by generating and analysing accurate reports and a general possibility of saving time due to automating most of business processes.
Experiencing so called ms, a situation where one’s immune system is attacking and damaging the nervous system, is something many wish to prevent. Fortunately ms is completely preventable. Here are some of the basics of doing that.
Understanding how to prevent ms involves understanding why it happens. To a large degree, ms is a trigger and response problem. Something triggers the immune system and the immune system responds by attacking the nervous system. So ms prevention involves working the problem from both sides, by reducing triggers and changing the response.
While, there are numerous, even infinite, different things that can trigger an autoimmune response, fortunately one can generally figure out what many of them might be by using a little common sense.
For instance, substances that tend to cause damage to the body can be a trigger for an autoimmune response. These can include pesticides, certain artificial food ingredients, msg and other chemicals. In one case, a person who was actually making a point of eating in a healthy way found that leaking breast implants seemed to have been triggering auto immune problems. In another, heavy use of tooth care products seemed linked. Cleaning products and things like dryer sheets can contain immune system triggering chemicals. Even certain medications could potentially trigger an immune system response.
What all of these types of triggers have in common is that the fact that they are potentially harmful is no mystery. So preventing ms involves being careful to actually reduce exposure to these triggers by, for instance, eating organically grown high quality food, refraining from using or minimizing use of chemicals on one’s lawn, using less toxic cleaning products, refraining from using dryer sheets and basically living a more natural, simpler lifestyle that does not involve constantly bombarding one’s system with reasons to freak out.
Physical triggers are not the only type though. The immune system can also be triggered emotionally and by being stressed. Once again by using a little common sense one can figure out that if one is living in a stressful way or is constantly emotionally upset, this could contribute to the immune system being unstable and ready to attack.
The answer to this is to do things like work to manage one’s life as well as possible, to reduce stress by resolving issues with others, to learn to stay calm while dealing with problems and generally have good ways of dealing with the stresses of life.
Here’s the deal with the immune system responding by attacking. It’s not a genetic thing. It’s not a random thing happening for unknown reasons. It’s a behavior thing, and guess who determines how your immune system will behave. You do.
Yup, you determine how your immune system behaves. How is this possible? Well one way to look at it is that your cells are really little bits of you that act like you. So to get your cells to behave or not behave in a certain way, one thing you can do is get yourself to behave or not behave in that way. I call this method the micro matches macro method.
What this means for ms prevention specifically is that getting your immune system to be less prone to attacking means getting yourself to be less prone to attack. In other words, to prevent ms, don’t be angry and negative, not on the outside and not underneath either. This is the key to preventing, and even solving, ms, learning to respond to the problems of life in a healing way, rather than an angry or attacking way.
One who tends to attack and get angry will have an immune system that attacks and gets angry. One who tends to hate, resent or react negatively will have an immune system that has similar ways. On the other hand, one who tends to stay calm, work things out and heal situations will have the same type of thing going on in one’s body. Just remember, it’s not enough to be calm and positive on the surface. You need to adopt positive, calm, healing ways inside as well.
So there you have it. While there is more one can do to prevent ms, these are some of the key things one can do. By being careful about triggers and by learning to respond to issues in positive healing ways, you can reduce or eliminate your chances of experiencing ms, not to mention improve your health in other ways too.
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I’ve recently been diagnosed with ET (triple negative on the gene mutations). I’ve been suffering from fatigue and an almost permanent dizzy sensation,that is similar to vertigo symptoms.
I’ve been told by my haematology team that the dizziness is not related and have been sent to a neurologist, who’s treating it as a type of migraine known as vestibular migraine. The medication he’s given me makes no difference and on my last visit the neurologist suggested the dizziness/migraine could be related to the ET.
Yes - for me it was one of the more scary symptoms (along with numbness + pins and needles) that had me pinging my way through various hospital depts - I would have a sickening sensation of vertigo and would get skewed vision (showing my age here, but was like the old TVs losing horizontal hold)!
It was actually the neurologist who said it was probable ET, and from there was confirmed (with JAK2+)
My platelets were in the upper 700s - you do not say how long you have been starting any treatment but my symptoms stopped as soon as I started on aspirin (which did astonish me) - I am also now on hydroxy and I have had no vision ‘episodes’ since.
Lightheadedness ( vertigo ) was my main symptom that started when I was 17 years old. Headaches, pain in feet, hands and hips and burning sensation in veins came on top of it. During 25 years they told me it was stress .... I moved to France and was diagnosed with ET Calr mutation. Acquired Von Willebrand with a huge bleeding risk. Lived many many years with platelets above 1.2 million without knowing it. Some Doc’s are worthless ... but I am still here. Using Pegasys and feeling much better know.
Yes it is certainly a symptom many of us will be familiar with. I was like it for a long time before diagnosis and a particular bad incidence of losing balance led me to GP and bloods showing very high platelets and of to hospital fortunately I had both a good GP and a MPN specialist straight away so got a quick diagnosis then (ET triple neg) . Once I was on HU and aspirin the vision problems stopped but that dizzy type feeling can be there on and off over the years and you begin to find the bits that trigger it and how to manage it - as many of us will say on here do do do drink water all day, keep a little bottle with you to keep ahead of any thirst and many of "long timers" will confirm that makes all the difference with this and many symptoms. The reasons for the water are probably quite long and detailed, but the biggest thing we will all say is that experience shows it works! The balance issues can be part of the fatigue we deal with too so as time goes on you will find you manage it and the triggers and how to work around those. As with all these things keep mentioning it to your consultant if you feel it is beyond what I have said, so that a check can be made that it is not anything else - but if your specialist is not too specialised with MPNs it can be an idea to get a change of hospital! All the best.
I am a clinical nutritionist and specialise Jak conditions. Vertigo can certainly be a symptom of uncontrolled upregulated Jak pathways. This is because Jak2 rapidly removes glutamate from the nerve synapse essentially creating decreased nerve conduction and ultimately symptoms of vertigo.
Can you tell us all where to look for advice on nutrition for people with jak + mpn's. I have not heard before that nutrition plays a major role in these diseases.
I am jak + and also have bouts of dizziness and headaches and some loss of balance as many on this site do, would be helpful if we knew what to avoid and what was acceptable.
I am to my knowledge the only functional nutritional medicine practitioner that specialises in Jak conditions as far as I am aware.
My daughter and I have multiple jak2 mutations so I went to on to study a bachelor of dietetic and nutritional medicine and genetics to reverse my debilitating symptoms.
Nutrition and biochemistry are major drivers to these conditions. Jak2 is essentially an inflammatory cytokine, driven by many biological factors, with this being said there are many many ways your can downregulate gene expression.
Very interesting. I always look at my bloods to see if I can do something nutritionally to help my ET. Your knowledge could help a lot of MPn sufferers. Are you in the UK?
They haven't got it we have and we know that the dizziness and fatigue are real. You're not going mad its the same for us all.
But i still get dizzy and really bad prolonged headaches which go as quickly as they arrive.... fstigue can be bad. Just take it easy on the bad days x
Hi - I have been recently diagnosed - JAK2V617F positive . I have had years of unexplained vertigo and fatigue. I attributed it to my autoimmune thyroid disorder however it makes more sense that it is related to the MPN as well.
Staying hydrated is important and resting when your body gives you the signal to stop - something I still struggle with!
Yes Pamela, fatigue is my biggest problem. Stopping and resting is the 2nd. That’s when I get low. I then have to fight the low mood by forcing myself to the gym.
Like all the other beautiful people, I agree, yes definately a sympton of ET. I too had horrendous headaches and dizziness prior to being diagnosed It was a very challenging time for me , I thought I would never get better. However after being prescribed aspirin and hydroxycarbamide , I soon felt well again. Unfortunately the latter has not agreed with me so at this moment in time I am awaiting to see the consultant for a different med.
I was diagnosed with ET Jak2 positive a year ago after continually going to my GP with dizziness she sent me to the balance clinic at my local hospital they said I had vertigo did all the movements sent me home it was slightly better for couple of days then it started again then I was diagnosed with ET.and dizzy spells got worse and hospital said it was not connected to ET. I was out in town for lunch a couple of months ago with friends took really ill the room was spinning I couldn't stand up an ambulance was called to take me to hospital and they said it was a bad episode of vertigo and sent me home they still said it had no connection to ET. after that I needed new glasses and decided I would go to a private optician he gave me a great eye test he said my eyes were not working in unison he would put a prisem in one lense to balance my eyes up what a difference a lot of the dizziness has gone I still believe it is all connected with our chronic illness and GP's should have more information about this illness as apparently my platelets were high at least for over 1year before they told me about it and sent to the hospital I would advise you to have an eye test just in case wont do any harm because no one will convince me these things are not connected.Best wishes Violet x
I have ET, Jak2+, plus Mastocytosis. I have had a problem with dizziness and passed out on one occassion, needing an ambulance. Nothing found from a range of tests, but stress certainly seems to make dizziness worse. We wondered if there was also some sort of allergic reaction, linked to the Masocytosis, but this has never been proven. Too many people seem to have this side effect for there not to be a link.
My platelets were only in the 500's but I suffered regular dizzy spells throughout every day. These subsided considerably after taking aspirin and drinking more water. I have ET JAK2+
Thanks to everyone who replied to this post. Really great to hear what you all had to say and to realise there are lots of other people experiencing similar things. I saw my haematologist today and asked a lot more questions about the link between dizziness and ET than I would have done without all the info everyone on here had provided me with. So thank you.
I have been on Hydroxy for a month, but have started getting dizzy spells even in bed lying down - has...
Hi just been diagnosed with ET put on hydroxy and aspirin. Feeling a bit emotional the phrase blood cancer...
So my dear friend who was a colleague of mine years ago posted this graphic on her Facebook wall. Lately, I swear all of her posts are my life at the moment! How come nobody ever tells you just how drastically different your life will become once children enter the picture. Maybe I should write a “tell-all”..
I try so hard to remember what it was like when I was single and kid-free. I woke up when I wanted, when to bed when I wanted, prepared whatever dinner I wanted without any regard for anyone but myself. And if I didn’t want to prepare a meal, I just hopped in my car and went out to eat. Easy peasy.
If I wanted to hang with my girlfriends we just got together, even if it was a spur of the moment. If I wanted to go on a date I just made plans and that was it. If I needed to run a quick errand I just got into my car and off I went. Clearly all of those things were seriously taken for granted.
Every adventure needs to be planned. Date night – what’s that! I’m pretty much a short order cook every night. And it takes at least 3-6 months to plan a few hours out with my girls… on a weekday. Quick run to the grocery store or post office…uhm…excuse me? I don’t spend less than 1 hour in a grocery store even if I am just grabbing some jelly, bread, and coffee.
But here’s the deal. I think it’s so hard to remember what it was like because that’s not who I am – not really. Of course I’m still Tina. That hasn’t changed. But what has changed is the priorities in my life. It’s not just about me anymore. It’s about those little creatures I brought into this world and making sure they learn right from wrong. That I teach them the life skills they will need to become contributing adults in society. And what does that mean?
That means me going through all the trials and tribulations of spending an hour in the grocery store. It means date nights are far and few between (actually pretty non-existent), and that I better make sure I get everything on my list while we are out and about.
But it also means I am blessed. I have two children of my own. I can take advantage of every situation and turn it into a learning experience. And I learn from them. I have the advantage of seeing the world through their eyes. I can find joy in the little things like learning to ride a bike without training wheels or sounding out and spelling a word correctly. There are so many people in the world who LONG for their life to be completely disrupted as mine has been.
So, I guess the long and short of it is this. Cherish every moment. Every moment as a young teenager, single adult, parent, and grandparent. Every moment that gets you down because you always rise back up. Every moment that challenges you because it is shaping you for what’s to come. Every moment that doesn’t go quite right because it is making you think of different ways to handle it. And every moment as a parent that it takes you literally 25 minutes to strap a screaming, bull-headed, strong-willed child into her carseat to drive 30 seconds to the grocery store to spend an hour inside.