Life Insurance Options for Disabled People, Weight Control and MORE!

B'SD

24 Av, 5778

WHEW! Proctoring season ended and I'm back to my regularly scheduled programming. Let's share some information, OK?

People with a disability too often struggle with efforts to secure life insurance. USNews&WorldReport recently reported on potential solutions for Americans. Please read Can You Get Life Insurance While Disabled?

Ever wonder how some people stay slim despite the passing years and all those luscious-looking items on buffet tables inside restaurants or at private parties, and at the mall (mall muffins are loaded with MILLIONS, perhaps BAZILLIONS of unnecessary calories, BTW) and even inside your local refrigerator? 

There's a technique called intermittent fasting that helps them to preserve a pleasant profile in the mirror. Read about that in Intermittent Fasting Benefits.

You've surely heard about doctors who withheld information or considered their patients to be hopeless cases with medical or mental health problems that couldn't be solved, correct? 

And you've heard of astounding recoveries despite the professional pessimism.

One of things that frequent readers of this blog might not know is that I'd been written off as "within 6 months..." and didn't learn of the diagnosis until I ended up in an emergency room, close to dying.

I describe what happened next in the first few pages of the EMPOWER Yourself book. Then I write about what I knew as a Health Information Management professional that helped me to survive, then to thrive. That information can help many, many people in dire medical circumstances.

I wrote the book to share the insights with laymen who couldn't possibly guess that those solutions exist. Why? Because YOU need someone who's willing to share that information. 

Read the book to feel, perhaps to BE better!

Know somebody (including yourself) written off as someone with a hopelessly incurable medical problem? Buy them a motivational and informational gift that can help them to rise above the doomy, gloomy forecast. Click HERE.

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It can help people with many types of diagnoses.





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

Fill your menu of options with can-do solutions.

Here's How to Help Detroit Retirees

B'SD

9 Tishrei, 5774


I did a triple-take when I read this headline:

Detroit may end health care coverage for retirees under 65, replace it with $125 monthly stipends

I can well imagine the sense of dread, panic and raw fear in the people who might be affected by this drastic move. 

$125.00 does not buy much health care. 

At retirement age, quality healthcare is usually Priority 1!

Considering the Confusion in California about Medicare Exchanges being Meaningless, more older Americans need to know how to obtain adequate health care. It's a matter of survival!

If I were in this situation, 

I'd be weeping.

Know a Detroiter or Californian who needs affordable quality medical care?

• Medication? 
• Medical transportation help? 
• Medical appliances? 
• Something else medical?

Alert them to pages upon pages of information about charitable organizations - worldwide - willing to pay for some or all of an applicant's medical necessities.

Buy that person a copy of the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge so they can read all about that.

A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. Read all about that on pages 4 and 5.

 

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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

Forget about politicians promising to save you. They caused this mess.

 

Here's How to Make Legitimate Donations to Boston Marathon Survivors

B'SD

12 Iyar, 5773

Scammers are taking advantage of Boston Marathon Massacre survivors and donors hoping to help them. In order to end that crime, please click on How to Make Safe Donations to Help Boston Bombing Victims.

I've already packaged donated copies of 

for the 
Boston Athletic Association 

which organizes the annual marathon.
A Boston-bound friend will mail them for me
when she arrives in the USA next week.

So many prayers are with the survivors. May GOD bless us all with the sweetest, most healing answers possible.

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter look at your otherwise frightening medical or mental health future: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Feel free to cry as needed. It's a form of prayer.


 

Drying Off after the Storm

B'SD

15 Cheshvan, 5773

The world is full of photos and horror stories, awed by Hurricane Sandy. Good-hearted people are helping others to cope with the consequences. I add my prayers to the many asking GOD for inner strength, insight into the spiritual lessons involved with the storm, and recovery from the experience.

I do not plan to be blogging next week as I'll be on a long-planned trip far from home. I wish you well, and plan to update this blog as of the second week in November.

The holidays and gift-giving season 

are upon us, 

though many Americans 

are suffering severe financial destruction 

with their damaged homes and businesses. 

If you can, supply someone 

who needs the cost-cutting, 

time and sanity-saving information 

of

with a gift copy.

Individual copies can be bought here. 

BULK orders can be made here. 

Medical, business and charitable organizations would be wise to lighten the burdens of people hurting in many ways from the storm and its aftermath. The calming relief can go a long way.

A medical and natural disaster crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To, see page 5!"

Wishing you a brighter holiday season ,
 

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


 

How to EMPOWER Yourself in an Emergency Room and MORE!

B'SD

12 Tamuz 5772  




Here’s another important thing you need to know in a medical crunch: When a person already taking medication(s) is admitted to a hospital - including the emergency room - or outpatient clinic, they usually receive new medications or, changes are made to the medication they've been taking all along. That can present some serious health problems for people with drug sensitivities. They become sicker or their medical problem is not adequately addressed while they're in the hospital or clinic. This is scary stuff! Here’s how to understand the problem:


Hospital-based staff members are not mind-readers. Worse, they tend to be crushed by heavy schedules and excessive responsibilities. They can't easily access every - or any - patients' complete medication lists. Communication lines might falter or not even be attempted. Medical professionals down the line aren't always able to know of recent medication changes. As a result, the new medication regimen being prescribed during the hospital or clinic stay, then at the time of discharge could 1) Omit necessary medications, 2) Add too many drugs treating the same problem, 3) Cause physical harm or 4) Hold incorrect dosages that simply do not help the patient.


Sometimes the situation happens in front of you as you scream, beg and plead in vain for someone to pay attention and to prescribe the medication you need versus the stuff they want to ply on you.


The patient and the medical staff share a problem called "A need for medication reconciliation." How that is to be accomplished is one serious matter. I've resolved it live on the spot for a few people.


Here’s how to solve the problem: You need to alert all medical personnel of the issues affecting your health. But what if relevant people aren't paying attention to you the patient, or to your loved ones demanding better care? See pages 42-47 of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge  for the LISTEN to the Person Before You: Lessons for Caregivers section. You can print it out and give copies to nursing supervisors, the head of the medical department treating you and anyone else you deem appropriate. There's NOTHING like in in the How-to and For Dummies line of books! 


Here are a few more suggestions: Print out the "Don't Tell Me You 'Understand'" poem on page 7 and hang it over your hospital bed. Practice more patient-protecting ideas described in the book. Delegate authority and have loved ones or friends present facts to relevant medical personnel. Learn how to successfully advocate for yourself in dire medical straits. Practice until you get it right.


There are plenty of reasons that I chose the “Face your medical problems with dignity. Face your future with optimism” motto for my book-related blog and Self-Help coaching services. An improving and protected sense of dignity plus ever-better optimism and solid information help ill people to cope with medical, mental health and disability challenges. You can overcome despair that way, and allow yourself to heal emotionally, even physically despite devastating setbacks. We hear these great sayings over time, but I learned the lessons in my gut and every cell of my body. You can, too.


Every medical professional owes it to their patients to ask, “How can I help you today?” If they don’t, you’ll know what to do when you read the EMPOWER Yourself book.

Medical and mental health professionals recommend the "persevere past emotional and physical pain" message of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. So do clergy of different faiths.


You can learn the lessons to help you when you buy the E-book or print edition book from the publisher, Booklocker, which ships way faster than online book stores. Go to http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html





By the way, Americans, did you know that some doctors fear Obamacare - because it will fail to serve YOU? http://video.foxnews.com/v/1714511797001/

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

How to Judge a Book Without Its Cover

B'SD


16 Sivan 5772


While I was taking time off to refresh and to relax, I received some interesting messages on my monitor and phone. I returned home to these E-mail and phone messages:

From GNK: "Hi Yocheved I just want to let you know that I really enjoyed the book. It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge  is very informative and insightful. I like how you drew sources from many different avenues. May you continue to feel good and help others! When I have more time I want to look into some of the resources in the back."

From JS: "You can help so many people with your story and advice."

RS called me from a different part of the world to say: "I have the same diagnosis you had. I appreciate the ideas in your writings. Thanks so much! Now I know which surgeon I need."

"When the character of a person is not clear to you, 

look at his friends." 

~ Japanese proverb

Think of that and the comments above it as you consider benefiting from a book that helps people around the world. You have a way to judge a book without its cover.

Readers are feeling better 

with one click at 

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

You can, too.

Buy the E-book or print edition to 

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical 

(plus mental health and/or disability) 

Challenge 

at 

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

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

Catching UP When You Feel Life has Left You Behind

B'SD


9 Sivan 5772


A journalist as well as an author, my schedule is filled with several complicated projects. One of them was not contracted for. It was a recent conversation with friends over a dinner together.


Those friends informed me of people suffering medical problems and all the emotional and financial costs that tend to go with them. We sighed together. I then named the pages of

that held solutions for the specified problems. As promised, I met with one of the affected individuals to offer some words of comfort and direction. Several days and book sales later, a grateful parent thanked me for having written the book: "Yocheved, now I feel like I'm catching up after I felt like life had  left me and my family behind." 


I'm still crying over the privilege of having been able to help yet another person struggling with medical, mental health or disability issues.






EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html


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

REDUCING The Cost of Preventable - and Other - Health Problems

B'SD


23 Iyar 5772


Are you cringing every time you hear someone scold you for suffering with preventable health problems? Are you wondering how to pay your medical bills?

Here's an Improve Your Life solution 
that's easy to use!

Learn about the cost-cutting, stress-reducing solutions in E-book and print editions of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

You'll read about...

1. How take the chaos out of your medical life.
2. How to live more sensibly with can-do ideas and 
3. How to contact charitable organizations that provide part or full payment for someone's specific medical costs - all around the world! 
4. There's even a source for free, brand new wheelchairs worldwide!

There's a reason that readers call or write to thank me for writing the book. It's helping them to cope with their medical challenges! Reduce the pain of yours. Read doctor-recommended EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 


Buy it at http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html TODAY.





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

Reversing a Prognosis with Optimism and...

B'SD


19 Nisan 5772

A happy-go-lucky woman in Israel wakes up blind in 2005. She soon learns in an emergency room that she is dying. Then she has emergency brain surgery and loses the benign brain tumor that had blinded her and almost ended her ability to breathe.

One year later in 2006, medical experts inform the weak, thin woman that she will never see again. And here she is in 2012, typing this blogpost to you - after she wrote a book to help ill and disabled people around the world!

Medical and mental health professionals recommend  It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge and praise it on the cover. 


It is the story of how I benefited from various forms of wisdom in the western and natural healing worlds. I now have doctor-certified bones and muscles to rival those of a woman HALF my age. The prescription for my eyewear has fallen 16 - yes 16 - times in 6 years. Every aspect of my former vision problems is lessening over time.

My physical health is improving in other ways, too. As for my emotional/mental health, well, there's a reason that I was invited to address a conference of mental health professionals - and why so many recommend that you read

There are plenty of reasons that I chose the motto for this blog to be

Face your medical problems with dignity.

Face your future with optimism.

Let me know which page of the book convinces you that an improved and protected sense of dignity plus ever-better optimism help ill people to cope with medical, mental health and disability challenges.

The bonus is that, as you read, you'll learn how to improve your health - or someone else's - while saving money worldwide: Results, safety, and health in one E-book or print edition.

Buy EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge today!

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

Doctors, Therapists and Patients: Here's an EMPOWERING Solution to Stress that You Can Afford!

B'SD


16 Nisan 5772


The Passover seder on Friday night was lovely and meaningful. The focus on freedom from any sort of slavery was uplifting. And I realized at the table that one form of slavery is the hyper-focus on medical/mental health issues that pretty much takes over the lives of some people. That can be prevented, though you're wondering "How?"

Let's look at that sudden or chronic condition 

dominating your life, or your patient's, now.

There are far too many different topics that doctors and therapists are “supposed” to discuss with their patients. The expectation is not realistic. She or he lacks the time, energy and focus to hold your hand and to guide you through an increasingly large, complicated maze of medical options. Think about it: doctors are busy treating or operating on people, and documenting facts about their patients. They also attend meetings, continuing education classes to learn of newer drugs, newer procedures and newer laws. Plus, they wade through blizzards of licensure paperwork let alone medical records they must study, sign and understand. 

Lives - and the quality of those lives - are on the line

Then the doctors and therapists are supposed to tend to their private lives without letting the stress of their work adversely affect their relationships. Being a medical or mental health professional is a time-consuming, gargantuan task! That presents serious doctor-patient relationship and quality of care issues to finesse on both sides of the bedrail or doctor's desk.

Patients are struggling to find out what they need to know, facing feelings of shame, despair, fear, rising and fallling hope. Just name the emotional complication - let alone the confusing, frightening and EXPENSIVE medical problems dominating their lives!


Social workers and case managers are available for explaining medical facts and options to patients, their friends and/or loved ones. Check out their reputations for competence before divulging your personal details and investing your hopes on people who might or might not be able to assist you or your loved one. You might need to work with someone else.

And when you’re ready
to help yourself too,
read and re-read 

It's packed with valuable, hard-to-find information that I've shared with delighted social workers, medical and mental health professionals around the world. Some of them now own EMPOWER Yourself!

What have those professionals said about the information in It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need to: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge? 

“I didn’t know that resource existed!”

“This makes getting ready
for a hospital stay 

so understandable!”

"You explained how to
stay organized 

from start to finish.
This book is 

a major time-saver!"

"Look at all these organizations
that pay for someone's

medical bills.
WOW this is helpful!"

“You’ve covered so much in
just one book. This is amazing.”

Patients, doctors and therapists worldwide are buying the book. You can, too. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge today! 

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

Meet the Author Tonight!

B'SD


24 Adar 5772

Care to meet me at 

a book-signing event 

this evening?

I have a fun program planned for Sunday evening 7-8PM March 18 2012. 


A January audience in Netanya enjoyed it so much that they delayed my departure for more than an hour. I'll be sharing the fun this evening, as you learn how to lower your stress and how to reduce your medical costs - painlessly.

I look forward to meeting you in Jerusalem's AACI building (corner of 37 Pierre Koenig/2 Poalei Tzedek, Talpiot)! Yes you can buy signed copies of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge from me. 


Call AACI at Tel: 972-2-5661181 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            972-2-5661181      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or Fax: 972-2-5661186 for directions.

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

Get Ready for International Women's Day March 8th!

B'SD


13 Adar 5772


International Women's Day happens tomorrow, March 8th. Share your appreciation for the females in your life with those who've saved your psyche, friendships, salary and/or health.

I hope you'll buy the woman-written book that's helping people around the world to cope with their medical, disability and/or mental health issues plus the related expenses: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Reduce the pain in your heart and wallet. Save money on  getting good or improved health results with

The effective ideas inside the book are tested by time and proven to be safe. Medical and mental health professionals said so all over the back cover and inside it.

Now click on this Purim film about what one woman can do to save lives (Purim begins tonight)!

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Feliz Purim para todos mis amigos Judios!!!!!!! 

פורים שמח

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

TWO Ways to Find Answers to Your Questions about Coping with Medical and Disability Challenges!

B'SD


15 Shvat 5772




I'm savoring the flavor of ripe Israeli produce today, the new year for trees called Tu B'Shvat (the 15th day in the Jewish month called Shvat). And I'm pleased to let you know that questions are coming in to The Refua Radio Show! I'm doing my best to provide time-saving,  cost-cutting and stress-busting answers to each and every problem presented in my INBOX at giveretgolani@gmail.com. Those answers are based on 

and on my ever-growing database of relevant information.


Now you can listen in for necessary information, too.

Hear the Refua Radio Show 

at

http://embraceisrael.com/refua/#de

starting Sunday Shvat 19/February 12!

Many normal people cry at the shock, pain and frustration of a medical or disability diagnosis. Anger and sadness are  other dimensions of the problem. So is a sense of guilt. 


A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep (read about that on pages 5 and 6 in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge). And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To."




Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter look at your medical or disability situation: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 


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