A Can-do Message Far Beyond the Medical Sphere

B'SD

17 Kislev, 5775

Kislev is reputed to be a month of miracles. The life-saving Hanuka miracle of the Maccabees took place, then.

Maybe you can make a miracle, too,
no matter which holiday you celebrate. 

Want to be a hero as you do your best to save someone's quality of life, despite their diagnosis?

Here are some thoughts on that topic by mental health professionals:

"It's MY Crisis and I'll Cry if I Need To can be of enormous help
both to people with an illness and to those near to them.
Yocheved Golani's sharing of hope, courage and faith
will bring relief to many sufferers."

Rabbi Dr Abraham J. Twerski, MD, PhD, Psychiatrist, Director of Gateways Rehabilitation Center

http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html

"… This book is lifesaving, emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful…" 
 Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director, Neuropsychology Unit and Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma  (MCE)Team at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

"… a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it… It could save your life or the life of your loved one. This combination of positive attitude and positive action makes this guide useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be: lessons we can't afford to ignore." 
 Life Coach Y. Ives, England

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Give the gift of confidence to forge on.


 

Here's How to Get in on Clinical Trials - Better Informed

B'SD

13 Shvat, 5773

The Global Resources section of 

holds information about how 

to become enrolled in clinical trials 

(among other valuable bits of 

information).

You might be interested in some relevant facts about that. Clinical Trials aka Clinical Studies vocabulary is probably new to you, but certainly not to the medical professionals conducting their studies. Sometimes those professionals and their students overlook that reality, to your detriment. 

Today's blogpost is here to help you past that problem!

Click on the explanation below for a simple explanation of some terms you'll need to know, and to appreciate, before you contact anyone to add you to the participant list:

Clinical studies can give you access to breakthrough treatments --- but know the risks 

By Harvard Health Letter

Backgrounder; the correct questions to ask 

I advise that you also

• Ask about the nature of the medications to be used on you; what they're made of and what else they're used for. 

• Insist of having a written explanation for every creme, injection, pill, powder, process and other type of treatment to be used on you. 

• Clarify the start date, end date, exam dates and all expectations of the clinical trial that interests you.

• The medical world promotes ethics by insisting on patient rights and informed consent. 

• Be pro-active about protecting your interests. Insist on receiving thorough information before you agree to anything. Know what you're getting into.

If you have more questions, send them to me. I'll do my best to respond to you quickly and accurately.

Ready to read about how to get in on clinical trials? Buy the E-book or print edition today, for a better look at your options: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Know the facts about the choices before you.

 

Stretch Your Dollars and Your Smile

B'SD

24 Kislev 5771


Woohoo, Hanuka starts tonight! Watch this Maccabeats video to start smiling about the spiritual light this holiday brings to the world. Oops, the guys made a slight mistake at the end of lighting their chanukia/menorah. We do not blow out any Hanuka candles. We kindle the straight line of candles with one (called a shamash), then set it at a higher level when all is done.



Need a gift to bring more light to a sick person's life? Here's your solution:

Quick and convenient E-book

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

NEWSFLASH: 2M Lose Jobless Benefits as Holidays Arrive

That's terrible news, especially for ill people.

EMPOWER Yourself teaches you how to get more for your medical money around the world. The Global Resources section clues you in to on how to get 1st-quality medical care and medical necessities for little to no money!

Leave politicians out of your medical picture. Make it and you look and feel better in one reading.





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Be a HERO to People with Disabilities! Get YOUR NAME in Print & Get in on a Clinical TRIAL News!

B'SD

22 Sivan 5770

This just in: I received a terrific proposal from a best-selling author I admire. In brief:

Fun opportunity!

Do a Review

ofhttp://tinyurl.com/mqp6ok

& you just might read it

@ http://tinyurl.com/knggd5.

Guidelines in LEFT Column

OK, the title of this blogpost lets you know that YOU can be a hero. Here's how:

Do you use assistive technology?

Share your experience

to teach bloggers

how people with disabilities

use computers

Here's another chance to be heroic:

Rabbi Rachmiel Tobesman
will present a session,
Once Upon A Time To Comfort…
Jewish Children And Grieving,
at the 8th
North American Chevra Kadisha
and Jewish Cemetery Conference
in Atlanta, GA

at the Marriott Perimeter Center
- June 6-8, 2010 -
Sunday 1pm to Tuesday 1pm

Coping up with the death of a loved one
is hard enough,
but dealing with it as a child
is even harder.

Many Jewish children don’t understand
the grieving process
and are thrust into a world of
shiva, levaya, and kaddish
causing them even more
confusion and frustration.

Rabbi Tobesman will introduce
the new, helpful and inspiring book
A Time to Mourn, A Time to Comfort
as a source to guide children
in changing such a gloomy moment
into a time of discovery and healing.

A Time to Mourn, A Time to Comfort
is an invaluable resource
for parents and children,
filled with activities, stories
and explanations.

These features help children
to understand their feelings
and the grieving process
in the Jewish community.

Each chapter in this book
teaches children important skills
to cope with many of the
traditions and the feeling
of confusion so common
when someone dies.

Most books can only be read,
but this one allows children
to write, draw, doodle,
take notes, tape in pictures,
and even fold the pages.

One more must-read item: You might want to consider joining the clinical trial mentioned in...

NIH-Supported Study

Looks for Earliest Changes in the Brain

That May Lead to Alzheimer's Disease

I'd appreciate hearing from you if you become active in any of the action items above.

Hey! He wants fantastic, great, THE BEST content for the future news industry. Let Rupert Murdoch know about your favorite, helpful & informative blogger/author who deserves wider recognition ;^ )

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Brain Tumor Clinical Trials (no-cost medical care!) and Online Community News!

B'SD

18 Adar 5770



The National Brain Tumor Society is one of the wonderful organizations listed in the GLOBAL RESOURCES section of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

NBTS announces that it "just launched My.BrainTumorCommunity.Org, the most robust online community focused entirely on brain tumors. We hope that this platform will facilitate connection with and among members of the brain tumor community. Please do stop by and log on. Content on My.BrainTumorCommunity.Org comes from NBTS and members of the brain tumor community.

"We have also launched a clinical trial matching service on our website, working in collaboration with EmergingMed. This service will expedite the process of finding available clinical trials given specific diagnosis and treatment regimes."

You'll find other valuable information in It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. The prose soothes you. The humor helps you to be upbeat. The overall effect can restore your drive, joi de vivre and more.

Want to feel charged up with energy before you buy the book? Listen to one of my acquaintances blazing his way through a Chopin Etude:





Go on, act on that great sensation. Buy your copy today!



Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Medical News YOU Need to Know!

B'SD

11 Adar 5770



The New York Times Wellness blog has very important information for people who want to join clinical trials for cancer. A Phase 3 Trial for melanoma is open. E-mail genentechclinicaltrials@druginfo.com for information.

Other articles at the site explain snow days from an overworked doctor's point of view, how to cope with vitiligo, weight loss advice (that works!) and how to treat sex addiction.

Want more information along those lines? You need to read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.









Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

1 Nifty Way to Get Rid of Migraine and Neck Pain...

B'SD

24 Av 5768

MIGRAINES.

The word alone makes people cringe in pain. Loss of time at work, with family and friends, and from cheerful sunshine make migraine sufferers suffer even more.

An Israeli company named Occiflex came up with an innovative way to get you out of pain and back out of the darkened room that soothes your strained eyes. Occiflex can even soothe your sore neck muscles.

Learn more about this head-neck cradling and massage technology at

MEDGADGET . It'll soon be going into clinical trials. Contact Tamir Levital, CEO at tamir@headwaymedical.com for information.

Want to find more leads about medical relief, including how to get in on FREE medical trials? CLICK THIS LINK to BUY YOUR COPY of It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Want the information FAST? Buy the book from my publisher when you CLICK HERE

.

To your improving health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

More than a Perfume and a Pretty Flower, Jasmine Might Soon Cure Cancer!

B'SD

28 Tamuz 5768

We women know that jasmine is heady, romantic (well, you men know that, too) and pretty. Here's even BETTER news:

Jasmine might soon cure cancer.

Talk about a natural cure! The flower holds a plant stress hormone called jasmonate. That protects the flower from injury. That's a very simplified summary of complicated information.

This is easy to understand: Jasmonate causes cancer cell death.

Israeli company Sepal plans to use jasmonate's unique chemical properties to make cancer drugs more effective AND to develop jasmonate into a stand-alone cancer cure. Phase II clinical trials with a Sepal compound on leukemia patients are planned to begin in France in a few months.

CLICK HERE for more information on this exciting development.

To your good health,


Yocheved Golani Author, Journalist, Self-Help Coach

Giveret Golani Self-Help Coaching
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information calls my book "Recommended Reading." Buy it at Barnes and Noble


Hear why a radio host called my book "Incredibly inspiring!" when I speak about my book at OU RADIO OFF THE BEATEN PATH

Go Blue! Or, How to Live Longer, Healthier Lives with Power 9.

19 Adar Bet 5768

Hmmm, I wrote a book describing how I survived the emotional and physical shock of a BENIGN brain tumor that had been killing me (let alone the after-effects of the dangerous surgery). Then I began speaking to interested groups and individuals about how I did it. But the least convinced listeners to my tale of victory are some of the very people who saved my life: Doctors!

I've long wondered how to augment my assertiveness in describing my life-preserving techniques to medical skeptics. Now I've found one potential resource for success: bluezones.com. This doctor-created site describes well-researched geographical areas of longevity around the globe and how the long-lived people there earned

BIG

Birthdays.

Every bit of advice - succinctly explained in 9 Powerful Longevity Boosters - at bluezones.com is in It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

Better yet, It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To holds even MORE life-sustaining information than you'll find at Blue Zones. It's MY Crisis! also holds how-to information, humorous takes on the difficulties of life PLUS a global "Resource" section for locating the things you need to cope with medical crises.

To name just a few of those necessary items in my book's Resource section:

• Dietary Suggestions proven to Help and/or to HEAL



• Low-cost or free medication,


• Contact information for leading health-care practitioners and medical practices, and mental health professionals (including SUCCESSFUL complimentary medicine professionals)


• How to get in on clinical trials and free medical care,


• Low-cost or free medical appliances (e.g. hearing aids, canes, crutches, walkers, medical machines, Seeing Eye Dogs),



• Help with Problematic Pregnancies (and with fertility issues)


• Suggested Reading and Listening Materials
  
• And so much more.

And consider this: Unlike websites that market more than you bargained for, my book does not hold advertisements! You get unbiased information that I collected from reliable resources worldwide. No annoying pop-up ads, no irritating jingles in your ears. Just pleasant reading endorsed by medical and mental health professionals, clergy of different faiths and even an NIH researcher. All this in one convenient package: an affordable workbook to be shared with friends, family and caregivers if you wish.

When you want even more cheerful support, you can contact me for Self-Help Coaching services at giveretgolani@gmail.com.

OK, back to the skeptics to whom I'm offering an educational dialogue: I look forward to fielding questions from medical professionals around the world. The healing arts are not based simply upon science. The human heart, mind and soul are an intricate part of the medical mix. And uh, not everything can be explained to us mortals solely by statistics, experimentation and empirical knowledge, can it, doctors?

Find out something you never knew about "unusual" cases of spontaneous and other inexplicable recoveries and the people who've experienced them. I have loads of other information to share with you in addition to the Blue Zone site. I'm one click away at giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Still need convincing, Doctor? Okay. Ask me how it could be that a board-certified Orthopedist declared IN PRINT on OFFICIAL MEDICAL RECORDS - only today - that I HAVE OFFICIALLY AND UNQUESTIONABLY RECOVERED FROM DEVASTATING RSD/CRPS in less than three months! Not everyone recovers from that diagnosis. And if they do recover, it's just not in such a short amount of time.

You're a medical professional. You want to improve the Quality of Life for your RSD/CRPS or other patients. Ask yourself "How is this possible that Miss Golani recovered so quickly?" If you need the answer, you know what to do ;^ )

~*~*~*~

Want to learn many more can-do healing/coping strategies? Then read, benefit from, and tell others about It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

Buy someone a copy of It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To

Order it in book stores anywhere if it’s not on the shelves. It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To can be shipped worldwide. Specialty editions are available for large organizations.

Booksellers save on large orders of It's MY Crisis! at
https://secure.booklocker.com/booklocker/wholesale/order.php

Find out why more than 2570 votes of praise have been made for my book since December 2 2007. That's when the Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research declared It’s MY Crisis to be “Recommended Reading.”

You can vote for It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To on the Musella site daily. Just click

http://www.virtualtrials.com/books.cfm

and scroll down to the correct title.

I hope you'll choose a 9 or a 10 ;^ )

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Autoimmune Disease Therapy and AMD Clinical Trials Open Soon!

16 Adar 57658

This news merits another post for the day:

US-Israeli Scientists Collaborate on New Autoimmune Disease Therapy

Israeli and American scientists are working together to develop a new orally administered treatment for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases. Clinical trials begin in Jerusalem this February.

This is an international effort to bring life-saving technology to untold numbers of people. The medical institutions involved include Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) - a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

And here's information from a recent NIH press release about that AMD Clinical Trial:

The National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the start of a multicenter clinical trial to compare the relative safety and effectiveness of two drugs currently used to treat advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The two drugs are Lucentis (ranibizumab) and Avastin (bevacizumab).

AMD is a disease that damages the macula. The macula is the area of the retina responsible for central vision. AMD is a leading cause of blindness among older Americans. Nearly two million Americans are visually impaired by AMD, while more than seven million are at increased risk of vision loss from the disease.

"Visual impairment from AMD can lead to loss of independence and a reduced quality of life," said Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., director of NEI. "This clinical trial will evaluate whether the treatment burden for patients can be reduced without compromising effectiveness."

Lucentis was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June of 2006 for the treatment of advanced, or wet, AMD. The approval was based on evidence from clinical trials showing that Lucentis slows the rate of progression of vision loss from wet AMD. In addition to a low rate of developing vision loss, approximately one-third of patients treated in these trials had some improvement in vision, as measured on an eye chart, at 12 months.

Learn more about the proposed clinical trials at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2008/nei-22.htm

For a list of clinical centers, eligibility recruitments, and other information, go to: http://www.nei.nih.gov/CATT, or call the CATT Coordinating Center in the USA at 1-800-000-0000.

~*~*~*~

Need a solution for a specific medical problem?

Follow the advice of prominent psychiatrist Rabbi Dr. Avraham Twerski, Dr. Lisa Aiken, Dr. Rachamim Melamed-Cohen, NIH researcher Shiela Strauss and other notable individuals to READ MY BOOK!

Filled with can-do life-saving, sanity-preserving strategies AND a Resource Section filled with GLOBAL contact information for acquiring:

- Free or discounted medication
- Instructions for reaching cutting-edge medical/mental health practitioners around the world
- Advice for getting in on other FREE clinical trials
- A list of suggested reading materials
- And much, MUCH more.

It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge can minimize your heartaches.

Find out why the votes for my book keep climbing higher at the "Suggested Reading/Books" section of the Musella Brain Tumor Research Center's website. Learn why beneficiaries of my Self-Help Coaching Services smile more than they did before working out problems with me.

Appreciate why Hadassah Ein Kerem's Medical Information Center in Israel is preparing to provide my book to hospitalized patients!

Buy your copy at Pomeranz Books on Rechov Beeri 5 in Jerusalem Israel, online, or through me.

Dry your tears and find solutions! Read:

It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

May we be blessed with every aspect of healing.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Global Resources for Healing, Free and Price-Reduced Medication, and LOTS More!

8 Shvat 5768

I recently recommended my book to the distraught parents of a very disabled newborn. The "Resources" section of It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To is filled with leads, contact information, and ideas that can prove potentially helpful for securing free medical care and medication, cutting-edge therapies that can vastly improve the child’s quality of life, the lives of her parents and countless other readers.

But the parents initially misunderstood the value of the book. I had to explain things further.

It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To is not a simple feel-good book. It is a one-stop supply of information about global resources for healing. Remember: the head of social work services at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital is so impressed with my book’s advice and information that she wants her bosses to provide It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To to their patients.

Read it, benefit from it, and tell others about It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

Read the right-hand margin of this blog. Refresh your knowledge about the value that It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To offers.

Listen to me speak about my book on Internet radio.

Study listener comments in reaction to my personal appearances and radio interview.

The information to do all that appears to the right of your monitor.

Give someone a copy of It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Order it in book stores anywhere if it’s not on the shelves. It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To can be shipped worldwide. Specialty editions are available for large organizations.

SAVE on large orders of It's MY Crisis!
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Almost 1000 votes of praise have been made for my book since December 2 2007, when the Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research declared It’s MY Crisis to be “Recommended Reading.” Readers can vote for It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To on the Musella website once daily. Once you’ve read It’s MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To, you can vote for it at http://www.virtualtrials.com/books.cfm.

I hope you'll choose a 9 or a 10.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Make Your Emotions Work FOR You, Not Against You!

16 Tishrei, 5768

A survivor of five brain tumors and various treatments to successfully remove them, I'm an avid fan of www.meningiomamommas.org, a site devoted to survivors of Meningioma Brain Tumors. The site has several posts this week about negative emotions following diagnosis and surgery or other treatments. The messages pain my heart.

One of the features of It's MY Crisis! is the number of emotional coping resources that I present throughout the book. I hope that members of the Meningioma Mommas (and Poppas) group, and people with any sort of medical or psychological diagnosis, will make good use of my book.

I want to put in a plug for Liz Holzmer, creator of www.meningiomamommas.org. She is a powerhouse, raising funds and public awareness about the type of brain tumor labeled Meningioma. It is hardly the benign anomaly that much of the medical world believes. Meningiomas are devasting to mind and body, let alone to the heart and soul. ICD-10 creators and the rest of the medical world need to realize this in order to help people with meningiomas to heal faster and better.

ICD-10, for those of you who do not recognize the term, is the name of an important book compiled by the World Health Organization. It lists every known disease and form of medical treatment worldwide. ICD-10 is a resource for insurance reimbursement, statistical research, and overall medical record supervision. It and the MERCK manual are indispensable to the medical industry.

It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need to: A Life Book to Help You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge bears praise from medical and mental health therapists, a Fortune 500 motivational speaker, clergy of different faiths, an NIH researcher, and other relevant individuals. They all agree: It's MY Crisis! can help you to bear the strain of a medical crisis. The book teaches you how to EASILY use your emotions to help your healing along instead of passively letting them drag you down in the dumps.

I use humor, slices of real life and a personal understanding of how to redirect deep emotional turmoil for your personal betterment or that of a loved one in my book. That helps me to present my ideas to my readers. Many of them (and their care givers) report significant emotional improvement after reading my book.

Buy my book, ease your heart and mind for a mere $13.95. The "Resources" section of It's MY Crisis! will alert you to global outlets for assistance that you might want or need.

* Free or price-reduced medicine? I list ways to get them.

* Want to join clinical trials and receive free medical care? Find out how in my book.

* Need some uplifting stuff to read or to hear on CD, tape or in mass media? Check out my book.

* Want to hire medical clowns?

* Order meals for the bed-bound?

* Learn how to travel across town or around the world in dignity despite debilitating realities?

Buy It's MY Crisis! and learn what to do in one reading!

It's MY Crisis! is a book to share with loved ones, friends, and clients of medical and mental health organizations. Pharmacists , owners of gyms, spas and other health-oriented businesses can provide It's MY Crisis! to their clientele. Hospital gift shops can easily stock my book.

Buy your copy directly from Booklocker publishing at http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html and in select stores. It’s MY Crisis! can be shipped worldwide. Specialty editions are available for large organizations.

Save money on bulk orders.
E-mail angela - at - booklocker.com. Or visit https://secure.booklocker.com:443/booklocker/wholesale/order.php

As I celebrate the closing of the Jewish holiday season (this week we are living our lives in huts called Sukkot, to demonstrate our reliance on GOD's beneficence), I ask your understanding for my few posts this month.

To your good health, Yojeved