Save your sanity, time & money!

You need to know how to meet your medical and/or mental health needs NOW. You're struggling to survive moment by moment. And you need your dignity.


You're rushing to appointments (the ones you remembered) and/or wondering which treatment to use. Meanwhile, your costs are rising, your needs are changing and you hardly know how to make sense of what to do first, second and later. What about the emotions boiling inside you? How can you calm down with all that's going on?

A former medical coder and medical writer, I've been in your position. I survived a life-threatening emergency with information only a person with my professional experience would know: How to find medical innovators, medical experts and charitable organizations willing to pay part or all of an applicant's specific medical costs, who has software to simplify medical appointment scheduling, a sensible list of items to pack for hospital stays, and more.

I knew that I'd pulled through because of my ability to connect with resources I needed. I knew that most patients lack that knowledge. I decided to provide it, to minimize your suffering.

I believe in empowering terrified, confused and unhappy people with dire diagnoses. I believe that patients should not suffer insults to their dignity in medical settings. I provide information that can help you to manage your problems better, maybe to end them, in the book.

Calm down. Organize your life better. You just might get your grin back.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Putting Breast Mammography into Perspective

B'SD

21 Tamuz, 5775

I tend to prepare a blogpost when the content might prove valuable to my readers. Sometimes this blog goes silent, and it is not updated for a while. I prefer not to chatter nonsense nor to repeat myself, let alone to annoy you.

Today's message comes from my heart, on many levels.

This exchange took place at one of my 2 facebook pages, and was initiated by a reader of the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book:


Yocheved Golani something you have been saying for some time...


(Updates with comment from study author Charles Harding throughout story.) By Reuters Staff (Reuters Health) - Breast cancer screenings may not lead to fewer...
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I'd appreciate your feedback on the above.

Re-read every word above in case you missed some subtleties.




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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Out of the Box Solutions to YOUR Problems: A Starter Kit

B'SD

20 Tamuz, 5775

I've received feedback about yesterday's post, not all of it polite nor substantiated with facts. 

The controversy regarding the alleged safety of artificial sweeteners is a topic debated among medical professionals, let alone laymen. This US Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health update provides some insight into the problem:   

Sugar substitutes: Health controversy over perceived benefits.


We need to think for ourselves, to research facts and to rank our priorities when it comes to making life-enhancing decisions. Allowing someone else to do the thinking for you can be problematic in many ways.

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I'd like to move on to topic that can bring smiles to many faces and happiness in relevant hearts.

The EMPOWER Yourself book and this blog invite you to be creative in dealing with the issues of your medical or mental health. As I read this article, I knew it was something I'd like to share with you:







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Fill your mind with facts, fill your life with focused effort. 

Monday, July 6, 2015

Are Artificial Sweeteners Harmful to Human Health - or Not?

B'SD

19 Tamuz, 5775

I'm gambling that this blogpost will be appreciated (or not) by most of you. Please share your thoughts about it with me, below.

A contentious debate about the safety of artificial sweeteners is raging on social media. 

Pro and con supporters are citing contradictory medical evidence from professional medical organizations such as BioMed Central, Cancer. gov, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Medical School (I know, I know, Hah-vidd), JAMA, Mayo Clinic, Medical News Today, PubMed, Washington University School of Medicine, etc. Even Prevention Magazine has something controversial to say about artificial sweeteners.

You need to research each debatable sweetener and to weigh the risks of things going wrong with your health as a result of swallowing it.


Rather than repeat the social media argument here (or risk lots of ire by copy/pasting actual comments with identifying details about each commenter), I offer a thought for your consideration:


Not one health organization advises humanity that 
it has a minimum daily requirement of synthetic, 
stripped-down or otherwise questionable "food." 

The best way to be sure 
that you're swallowing actual food 
is to do so. 

Gambling on processed 
"food" products 
is a risk 
you might not want to take. 

As Baretta used to sing when the show opened, 
"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."







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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Preparing for FUN!

B'SD

15 Tamuz, 5775

I'm preparing to present and to sell some of my craft items at a community picnic, this afternoon and evening. I've spent time on last-minute touches all morning.

Look for the photos I plan to take later on. 

Meanwhile, please leave your comments about various blogposts in the comment section. I'd like to hear from the many people who visit this blog every Israeli morning, and from the rest of you visitingg throughout the day. I can see from statistics that some of you keep coming back several times on the same day (hello France, Greece, Norway, UK, Hungary and USA) on given days.

 



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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Alive Inside - Looking at the People with Alzheimer's Disease

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14 Tamuz, 575

One of the treasures in my life are my friends. I've cherished lifelong friendships and newer ones that make me a better person for having interacted with specific people. They are blessings to me.

One of those blessings is Miriam Green, a writer, blogger, neighbor and administrator of a highly effective social organization.

Miriam's mother has Alzheimer's Disease.  Loving daughter that she is, Miriam brings us on her journey of spiritual and individual growth by letting us peek into her life and her mom's at the Lost Kitchen blog.

Miriam gave me explicit permission to share her newest facebook update today. I strongly suggest that you click on it to improve your simple decency, sense of compassion and spiritual worth:


If you want to watch a movie about Alzheimer's, make it this one.

I want to tell you about an amazing must-see documentary called, “Alive Inside,” that shows how music can reawaken Alzheimer’s patients at almost every stage ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Staying Grounded and Joyous Despite Inner or Outer Pain

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11 Tamuz, 5775

One of the things I advocate for well-rounded emotions is having a hobby. I enjoy several, and thought to let you have a look at some of my dried flower arrangements



 and candelabra plate 








creations.

Care to guess which hobby I longed to resume though 2005 brain surgery had resulted in my surgically broken jaw (and my need to learn how to speak, all over again)?

There's a reason that I whistle as I walk. I've needed to strengthen my damaged emboucher (the relevant muscles of my face and lips) so that I can resume flute-playing. 

As of this past April, I've been able to get sweet sounds from my flute. 

Now that I've recovered from moving across the country, I hope to hire a music instructor so I can play in a pleasant manner. Stay tuned for developments. I'm still thrilling to the fact that my recent singing performance was well-received despite a long time off the community theater stage.

Please share the fun. Let me know what you do to stay grounded and joyous despite inner or outer pain.





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