A Promising CURE for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and More Good News!

12 Kislev 5768

You're stuffed with turkey, sauces, stuffings and loads of pie, so today's post is on a diet. One small portion of news that will leave you grinning, like these snowmen walking off too many calories (well, kind of...).

Israel's doctors have focused upon a promising treatment for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the same disease described in the biography, Tuesdays with Morrie. It might help people with Multiple Sclerosis, too. See Hadassah uses stem cells for MS, ALS patients

And more good news! Here's a simple way to prevent heart attacks among people with Diabetes: 'Vitamin E can help diabetics avoid heart attacks'

Such good news. What a delightful way to greet the winter!

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To your good health,

Yocheved Golani

Coping with a Medical Crisis?

Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Remember How to Remember...

B'SD

11 Kislev 5768

Today's post is short, since global attention spans are focused on transportation problems (France has a BIG one and America is trying to get to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving meals despite airport slowdowns and railways filled with alternative travelers avoiding packed highways that resemble parking lots).

Speaking of trying to pull off a magic trick like Bullwinkle T. Moose, here's one that just might work for you. It builds upon yesterday's post about Memory Boosters. I suggest that you fill the blanks of your day-planners in pencil as I do. Plans tend to change and so do the locations of meetings, social events and other real life stuff.

And if you have 10 minutes to spare, see if any information or suggestions in this Good Housekeeping magazine article prove helpful to you: http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/emotional/memory-brain-power-games

Feel a little better, now?

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To your good health,

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

Memory Boosters!

10 Kislev 5768

Doctors appointments, insurance papers, calls to make, child care issues, nosy neighbors, relatives who just don’t “Get it,” have you seen the baby, meals to prepare, pills and potions to swallow or shots to inject, omigawd we need a really BIG bank account, where are my keys, did anyone see the remote and why is the dog making noise like that?

Ever feel as if your inner PC and its memory banks just went and shut down on you?

Well, don't bang your head as you see here. Read on and find some solutions to the problem.

Many people facing medical crises have so much to remember that their inner filing cabinets overflow. They reach a point where they wonder if they’re losing their minds! Know the feeling? You forget almost everything? Even how old you are?

As you can see in the margin’s About Me area and as you’ll read in my book, I experienced no less than five benign brain tumors and their surgical removal. A human head does not have much space for tolerating all that intrusion and banging around upon soft brains. People who’ve experienced brain injury often suffer memory problems. So can anyone facing any type medical crisis.

Stress hurts. And medical intervention messes up the insides of your body even more!

I lost some memory after my treatments when I resided in the USA. I benefited from a rehab program for the brain injured. Students of every age in my program learned many tips for vastly improving our memory power. Here are a few tips I'll share with you:

Keep a reasonably sized notebook or day-planner with you all the time. Record appointments, social events, PTA meetings and other important scheduled stuff as soon as you commit to it or even hear of it.

Keep repeating a person's name in the conversation as normally as possible when you first meet.

Collect business cards when offered to you. On the back, make notes of where you met and what they look like, your 1st impressions of the person, anything remarkable they said, e.g., Redhead, skinny, laughs a lot. Met at Joe's celebration dinner

Put your stuff away in the same place all the time. NO LAZY SHORTCUTS! Shoes and clothes go in closets, not in chairs, the wrong room or atop doors.

Kitchenware gets washed, dried and immediately put away. When you're cooking, ALWAYS use a timer to alert you to shut off the heat.

Me, I keep my keys in the front door once I lock it from inside. I wear them on a cloth strap, a key strip around my neck, when I leave home. I never lose keys anymore.

Ever seen the funky new chains for holding your glasses around your neck? Use the one of your affordable choice. No need to feel like a moth-eaten relic. The new styles are super-trendy. And you won't lose your glasses.

Using the above techniques all jogs the memory cells. Watch. You'll end up teaching folks who never had tumors or brain injuries how improve THEIR memories!

Here's a bit of trivia to reinforce your knowledge about human frailty and how to cope with it:

The human body is full of quirky surprises. Some of them are quite interesting and not life-threatening. See this ABC News Health Area link about your brain (well, maybe its about someone else’s): http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3802482&page=1

Want a quickie education about all kinds of brain tumors? See http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic241.htm

Feeling better? Whew!

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To your good health,

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

Put a Smile Back on Your Face with the Power of Optimism

9 Kislev 5768

The holiday season is hard on people facing medical crises (it's no challenge to name the reason. The list seems to go on and on). I offer this funny photo to give you reason to grin during America's Thanksgiving holiday week.

Lighten your load even more with the message below.

Though my book mentions Dr. Larry Dossey’s popular and pioneering self-healing work in a different context than does the following item, I strongly recommend that you find some emotional relief at http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/the-power-of-optimism?ecd=wnl_day_102507

Find out about additional ideas for emotional relief in It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To. Get a double dose of Dr. Dossey’s upbeat message! It’s good medicine ;^ )

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To your good health,

Yocheved Golani

Coping with a Medical Crisis?

Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

More Global Notice About "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To"

8 Kislev 5768


I'm delighted with all the attention that my book is garnering around the world. Today, another URL regarding my manuscript.went live: http://detailwithnikkileigh.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-my-crisis-and-ill-cry-if-i-need-to.html

UPI-syndicated Life Coach Ben Goldfarb has left appreciative comments at some of the posts at my own blog, too. Several medical and mental health practitioners gave praise on my book's cover, along with clergy of diffferent faiths (including WIW's own Carl Philips, a lay minister).

See my blog's right margin for several other hotlinks to media attention about my book for helping people to cope with medical crises.

Brighten somone's holiday season and buy them a copy. My book teaches readers:

• How to improve on their emotional, spiritual and physical strengths


• How to respond to negativity from others


• How to prepare for hospital stays, maximizing the benefits of medical treatment


• Other coping mechanisms

The global Resources section has information about:

• How to get free or price-reduced medications and medical appliances


• How to hire medical clowns to cheer up someone special


• Contact information so children and adults can learn how to qualify for clinical trials


• Plus contact information for cutting-edge therapies and practitioners


• Time-tested approaches about how to cheer up despite excruciating circumstances


• Options for accomodating travelers with a disability


• And lots more.

The book is designed to be shared with loved ones, therapists and medical staff, or simply appreciated in privacy.

To your good health, human dignity and best coping efforts,

Yocheved Golani
Author, Journalist, Self-Help Coach

Giveret Golani Self-Help Coaching
Ta Doar 36255 , Jerusalem, Israel 91641
phone/fax: +972- 2-999.8392
email: giveretgolani@gmail.com
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes Your Need in Your Life

Doctors, Take Your Patients Seriously. Please!

5 Kislev 5768

My dear readers, you and I can share a deeply understood reality as no other people can: Medical indifference and medical incompetence.

When doctors, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, dismiss our very real physical symptoms as mere fluff or psychological silliness that they prefer not to encounter, a heavy price is paid.

It is paid by the person who is truly ill. See this story for the sad outcome of medical indifference:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23407657-details/Girl+dies+of+brain+tumour+after+doctor+tells+her+

The young woman could have been saved in an instant, several times over. All she needed was a doctor who took her seriously.

Moral of the Story: Insist on being taken most seriously when you know in your gut, in your heart, that you require medical attention. Find a responsive, responsible medical professional when the folks you've consulted do not respond appropriately. That's what I call Patient Empowerment.

Now, let's focus some more on Patient Empowerment. I've written on past posts that ill people (and healthy people) can restructure their futures to a significant extent. That belief and reality are the very core of my Self-Help Coaching work.

There's a terrific book about how our thought processes determine our destinies more than we usually imagine (sickness, health, opportunities, scholarship and more). The good news is that we can control the biology of our beliefs. Who says so? Award-winning Dr. Bruce Lipton, who presents proofs for his assertion that we humans do not have to be hostage to genetic factors. I reviewed his best-selling book for one of the publications that use my journalistic efforts.

Here's the URL to my book review of The Biology of Belief:







http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?contentid=26023&mode=a&contentname=Title%3A_The_Biology_Of_Belief%3A_Unleashing_The_Power_Of_Consciousness%2C_Matter%2C_And_Miracles&recnum=1§ionid=14

Good news, isn't it?

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COMING UP: Stress messes up our ability to remember details. Anyone going through a medical crisis needs help with keeping facts straight. Next week I'll provide you with tips for boosting your memory. Those tips are also good for anyone not facing a medical crisis. See you next week!

To your good health,

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

Music Soothes. And Heals…

4 Kislev 5768

There’s a lovely Spanish saying, “El Dios es la canción y somos los instrumentos.” It translates into English as “G'D is the song and we are the instruments.“

When one person reaches out to improve someone else’s life, the heavens sing praises of the person and their acts of kindness. And when we listen to music and allow ourselves to be moved by its messages of hope, we heal emotionally. Sometimes physically.

Late last night (it's already Wednesday mid-morning where I am), someone contacted me from around the world (through http://www.meningiomamommas.org/), to let me know about a loved one with a very rare and serious diagnosis: Metastatic Meningioma. I immediately referred her to one of the resources in It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

The daughter who contacted me deserves to be applauded for her loving concern and the steps she’s taking to find a cure for her mom. And now I hope that she, her mom, and everyone reading this blog will be comforted and healed to every extent possible by this marvelous tribute to human loyalties and to the One Above. Simon and Garfunkel are instruments of a spiritual reality. I hope their song becomes yours, too.

Bridge Over Troubled Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFruKvAq8PQ




That mini-photo of me on the right margin of my blog was taken while I was mid-flight during a spirited dance. Imagine me twirling with you as your sense of the future grows.

I'm very moved that so many people are letting me know that they're getting help from me that is improving their moods, their sense of the future, and their healing efforts. Please write to me at giveretgolani@gmail.com and name your medical crisis. Let me know what it is and how my book, blog or personal appearances helped you or your loved ones/acquaintances. See below for the growing list of illnesses improved with our mutual efforts.

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To your good health,

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