September is Self-Care Awareness Month!

B'SD

26 Elul, 5779.

Wellness is a hot topic these days, and so is Do-it-Yourself care. As we plod our way through Self-Care Awareness September, we can make choices that improve our well-being.

Read all the remarks above the margin and on the right side of this blog. 

Take charge of your health in innovative ways. 

Reduce your misery from a health issue with can-do strategies and attitudes that leave you smiling.

Health and happiness are not one-size-fits-all prescriptions. Each of us has unique chemistries, issues, insights and skills. You owe it to yourself to learn how to to improve your individual quality of life.

You can do that.





Recreate your future.

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.

Fill your time with pro-active behavior.

Book Week Celebration!

B'SD

10/11 Sivan,  5774

Israel has a fun annual tradition: Book Week!

Celebrate book week - with an Israeli author who helps the world at large. 

Doctors recomend It's MY Crisis and I'l Cry if I Need to: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  (you're gonna  the humor plus Jewish references here and there throughout the text! You'll appreciate the cost-cutting info for 1st-quality medical care, too!)

Did you know that a Methodist minister praised the book on its cover?

You don't have to be Jewish to benefit from 

The fun-filled, informative text if filled with information to help you to "Get your grin back" - even with that mental health or medical challenge before you.

Find out why medical and mental health professionals - and clergy of different faiths - recommend that you read it.

Learn how to cut your medical costs - all around the world. 

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. 

Fight fear with humor, confidence and whole new attitude that serves you well.

PS - I'm still studying hard for my ICD9 and ICD10 exams. Coursework increased after April 2nd, when the US changed the law about implementing ICD10 this coming fall. Graduation date has been delayed. I apologize that my homework load has interfered with my ability to post to this blog more often.

 

What Would YOU Like to Experience in a Patient Safety Culture?

B'SD

18 Adar, 5773

I'm still glowing with happiness from Purim. I helped to raise funds for a local charitable organization during the fun-filled day. Volunteers hit the streets with a particular T-shirt. I jazzed mine up a bit, as you can see.

On another topic, I wonder what YOU would respond if you were to answer the following question from a Help a Reporter Out (HARO) listserv (I removed relevant contact info so people don't bombard the message sender with unprofessional responses):

Biotech and Healthcare

1) Summary: Quantifying "soft" patient safety and hospital quality measures 

Name: Blanketyblank's Hospital Review

Category: Biotech and Healthcare 

Email: notyerbizness

Media Outlet: Blanketyblank's Hospital Review

Deadline: 5:00 PM CST - 1 March 

Query:

Many hospitals are focusing on creating patient safety cultures, engaging patients and improving quality. While clinical quality can be quantified according to different diseases and processes, how can the "softer" aspects of safety and quality, such as culture and patient engagement, be measured? How can hospitals quantify these aspects of care so they can determine their progress?

Okay, back to me, Yocheved: You just know how much you don't appreciate those awful patient gowns that let in every breeze or pair of eyes. And that tasteless hospital food? Rude doctors and technicians? What else needs to be improved? How?

Please share your recommendations for quality patient care and culture in the comments section below this blogpost.

I look forward to reasonable replies ;^ D

Buy the E-book or print edition today for your improved medical, mental health or disability care today!  

Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical  Challenge. 

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

Let's figure out this Quality Patient Care and Culture thing together!

 

Something Special in American Food

B'SD

1 Adar, 5773

[Feb 13 2012 - I'm pleased to let you know that this blogpost was shared at http://paper.li/GoodBlogPosts46/1318465543]

Sorry for my silence last week. This blog was hit by several hacking efforts and it took a while to clean things up. I had not intended to abandon you or to leave you wondering "What's going on?"

Let's get back to health.

This lesson in this TEDTalk video can probably save your life and/or the quality of your life. I recommend that you watch it to the end, then watch it again.


 

Want to learn another lesson on what pure foods can do for human health?  

The food chain has been sullied around the world. Even if we move to a different country, we take the effects of those health-compromising chemicals along.

Read all about how becoming an organic vegetarian restored my sight after I'd been blinded and doctors lost hope of helping me to ever see again after a benign brain tumor had crushed my optic nerves. 

They thought I was nuts. Then the doctors began to realize that that something was helping me to recover sight. GOD was certainly among those details ;^ D

I've been invited to interact with students at a neuro-rehab ophthalmology clinic next semester. My eyewear prescription has fallen many times in the past 7.5 years! Future doctors want to know why, and how they can help other people with the problems I'm overcoming.

The EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book clues in readers how to help themselves physically, spiritually, emotionally and financially. Read it today!

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

Start your own healing team! 


 

Reading is a GREAT Way to Pass the Time When...

B'SD

18 Tevet 5770

Reading is a GREAT Way to Pass the Time When...

... you're bedbound.

... you're learning to cope

with physical challenges.

Seek out books that teach how to have fun no matter the diffculty you or a loved one is facing. Creativity fills the wider world. Ask librarians, social workers, and organizations serving the physically challenged world, for information you need. And be sure to see these sites:

Group Games so Deaf Kids Have FUN!

Sports & Games 4 BLIND Children

Wonder BABY: Literacy, Safety & FUN

4 Vision Impaired Children

Sign Language Fun with Games & Puzzles

Castle Quest & CopyCat FUN

for Children Who Can't Hear

There are more child-oriented resources in E-book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge (why should adults have all the fun?) .

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

Lift Your Spirits in One Click!

B'SD


I want to follow up recent blogposts with something that can get you into a different and dynamic dimension of reality.

You're sad and tired over being sick. Life seems to have slowed down, gone all wrong.

"Why me?" and "Why can't I be like everybody else?" might be questions haunting your heart and mind.

Lectures from the pulpit aren't helping you. Clergy, therapy, whatever. They're not making your life better. You even wonder if GOD cares about you and your suffering.

I understand.

Well, sometimes GOD talks to us in astonishingly unexpected ways. Here's a blessing: A YouTube video that demonstrates the answer to the question "Why must you be like everybody else?"



I thank Randy Gage for alerting the Twitter world to this video.

Readers, I send you my wishes through a time-honored Jewish blessing: May you go from strength to strength.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Prevent Pancreatic and other Cancers with a Plate.

B'SD


25 Tishrei 5770



The other day I referred to evidence that some foods are not good for long lifespans. They can make you miserable with pain, disease, and sadness you didn't ask for. One of the diseases linked with diet is cancer.

News junkies recently heard and read a lot about famous folks dying of cancer.

But Michael Landon, Patrick Swayze and William Safire aren't the only people who've died of Pancreatic and other forms of Cancer. Everyday people die of it, too.

Disturbing proof points to pancreatic and other cancers that are being caused by ethnic
and dietary trends. We mortals hold potential solutions for preventing disease in our minds, hands and mouths.


Did you know that Pancreatic Cancer Deaths are Higher for Blacks?

Have you read the evidence about foods likely to cause cancer in anyone who eats them? Especially people who are prone to developing cancer?

Meats, sweets, & foods which cause sugar to be formed can be kept off your plate. Bread, pasta, cookies, rice, white potatoes, etc. are in that category.


You don't have to go hungry or feel deprived without your favorite foods. Spend time protecting your health by gradually increasing the fruits, vegetables and whole grains (e.g., oat, quinoa) on your menu. Sprout breads are yummy, filling and body-building. Increase them until they dominate your plate and ultimately replace the stuff that tastes good but isn't good for you.

This bowl of quinoa packs a powerful protein punch.

It's filled with other good nutrients, too. Pour some organic maple syrup on top and savor the flavor.


Save your life with a spoon, knife and fork, and excellent menu planning. Prevent Pancreatic and other forms of Cancer with your plate. Fill it with nourishing foods only. Pack nourishing snacks to take along during hectic days.

You don't want to die from donuts, do you?


Need motivation to change your menus and stick to the plan? Medical and mental health professionals recommend that you EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.




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

Look Who's Using My Book (with permission) Before it's Published!

July 10, 24 Tamuz 5767

Yesterday I posted a reference to some exciting developments about my book that I'd share in the foreseeable future. This item below is just too precious to hold back from you. It is a message I received this week from a prominent psychiatrist (to a colleague). He is also a prolific author:

Yocheved gave me her manuscript on "It's My Crisis." I have given it (with her permission) to several cancer patients on chemotherapy and they found it very helpful. I think it would be a great mitzvah to make this available to all who may need it.
Abraham J. Twerski, MD

Here's bit of vocabulary help for international readers of my blog and my soon-to-be-released book: a mitzvah is a good deed, the fulfillment of one of GOD's many commandments (there are more than the widely known 10).

Several months ago, I received this note from one of Dr. Twerski's colleagues:

“Friends of ours have a young child recently diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy (currently a terminal diagnosis). I assisted them with [It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To]... It enabled them to face their challenge with strength.” Psychotherapist Jonathan Dove, UK

Okay healers in the medical and mental health worlds, you read the news here first. "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 help your patients and clients.

The release date of "It's MY Crisis!" is fast approaching. You'll be able to buy it here and through my publisher first. Keep coming back to this blog as your number one source of a tool to help your life or someone else's ;^)