Celebrating 65 Years of Dynamic Life!

B'SD

4 Iyar, 5773

Tonight, a mournful siren will sound across Israel, heralding Memorial Day for soldiers and civilians murdered by enemies of the Jewish state.

Monday's air will fill with weeping as many tears are cried at cemeteries across the land. The tears will belong to people who escaped Hitler's Holocaust, then built new lives, and to other immigrants who've made their way back to the Holy Land. So many "civilizations" have forced Jews from the ancestral home given to us by The Creator.

My energies will soon be focused of celebrating Tuesday's Israel Day of Independence, when modern Israel was declared a state. The name of the newspaper shown below has its own interesting story that once again validates the Jewish history of Israel.

I'm also preparing for a next-week trip to Shilo, site of the ancient Tabernacle (before the construction of the Temples destroyed by Jew-haters). Here are remnants of a 2nd Temple era synagogue (the photos were taken by avid Shilo Musings blogger Batya Medad).

Give yourself an education by booking a visit there via the Shilo HaKeduma (Ancient Shilo) Tourism Authority 

The excitement of sitting upon, stroking and seeing the very structures that long-ago Jews used (read your Bible!) tends to make my heart race as my eyes cry streams of tears.

Exciting is not quite the word for it. Awesome, humbling and privileged are some of the moods and sensations that go through the very cells of my being whenever I'm there.

I'll be joining friends who've long planned our pending get-together. We'll be lunching at a popular spot (call the number on the awning and you can, too!) though I need to bring some organic yummies along for my healing purposes.

Spiritual and physical healing are part of the Ancient Tabernacle and Shilo's GOD-given gifts to humanity.

Israelis innovate many healing therapies. Read the 65 Ways Israel's Saving the Planet!

Can't reach Israel so fast ? Here's a compromise: Buy the E-book or print edition today to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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

Reflect on life with a sense of appreciative wonder.


 

Breaking CPI and Other Chain(s) without Politics

B'SD

WARNING: Why Chained CPI Rattles the Elderly (and anyone soon to be).

Over time, I warned you that Obama's approach to medical care was problematic. Robbing social security accounts with this proposed Chained CPI plan is not in anyone's best interests. The risk is too big. If the plan fails, and even if it doesn't, your hard-earned money can disappear.

As the article above mentions, "The Obama administration’s proposal to change the basis for Social Security raises to 'chained CPI' is all about saving money by slowing the growth rate of benefits."

There's a saying from an old TV show, 

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

Click on AARP's automatic Protest to POTUS program or go to the AARP site (www.aarp.org) to study it before you send a message to the White House.

If Chained CPI becomes law, I will shudder with you.

If you want to prepare yourself to cope with ever-worsening healthcare prospects in the USA, or to lower your medical costs anywhere in the world, you need to read

The Global Resources section of the book is filled with information on organizations around the world willing to pay part or all of your specific medical costs: Medical appliances, medication, medical care, medical transportation and more.

You don't need to be chained to politicians enslaving you to poverty, poor choices and despair.

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. 

Free yourself from poor planning and politicians risking your future.


 

How to Talk Back to Your Arrogant Doctors - EFFECTIVELY

B'SD

1 Iyar, 5773

Whew, it's a new Jewish month and I ended the previous one with some impact. I'm back from yesterday's exciting and insight-packed encounter with those vision rehabilitation medical students. Class was directed by my personal eye doctor, whose innovative and pro-patient assistance over the last few years helped me to attain self-sufficiency when I'd faced a future of despair and physical decline.

I've been reflecting on how much laughter the professor, students and I shared. The students were shocked, mystified and amused by my medical case (they were looking at, or listening to verbal accounts of, my medical records) then scared to respond to the professor's questions about it all (my case made medical history. It baffles bigtime experts let alone students).

They tested my sight, flipped out at what I can do, fell silent at what I struggle to do, and realized "Yeah, those prayers must help her somehow. And the vegetarian diet sure seems to help. Nobody who eats meat ever recovered sight after such a medical experience."

I told jokes, played games with the eye exams (one of the pluses of my limited vision is that I can detect things that people with normal vision do not), explained personal decisions about choosing life and forced courage over death and despair.

We talked about our private lives a bit, they looked at copies of the EMPOWER Yourself book and invited me back every two weeks of the remaining semester. 

The BEST part was that my craniosacral therapist Chana Bracha aka Andrea Garden Kornfeld who succeed at opening a formerly paralyzed eyelid drove me to the appointment (she wrote the Introduction to the 2nd edition of the book). The staff was impressed with her and she is now booked to speak at the college!

There was an interesting interlude when my eye doctor informed those college students of an arrogant eye surgeon who'd once demanded that I permit her to blind me in one eye to end my double vision (I wrote of the encounter in the EMPOWER Yourself book), and that I declined the hopelessness she'd prescribed and proposed that there might be ways to restore my sight.

I jumped into the conversation and explained that the long-ago surgeon shook her head "NO" to my optimism. She recommended psychiatric intervention to convince me of the "need" to sign an agreement for the permanently blinding surgery. I shouldered my purse and responded with a LOUD slamming of her office door as I announced "I will not permit you to maim me. I see the future and it looks ever-better" or something like that as I walked off into my ever-more-visible future. 

Yesterday's college students were speechless after hearing the story.

I then gently explained to them that the average patient lacks the stamina or quick-witted poise to resist bad medical attitudes. Part of my effort in interacting with the medical school's student body is dedicated to teaching future doctors to listen better, to think broadly rather than in limiting points of view, and to dedicate their medical work to helping the person before them - not merely to deal with tension by arrogantly or abruptly dismissing medical problems with harmful procedures and processes.

The students flipped through copies of 

and asked why I'd written it.

"To help people who need to know how to deal with drawbacks in the medical world," I replied. 

"Not everybody can vastly re-engineer their personalities to become so assertive, nor do they know the wonderful resources I've been exposed to as a former Health Information Management professional (I used to supervise medical records rooms, legal requests for information, prepare statistics, communicate with medical innovators and more). The book whispers over the reader's shoulder and helps them to face their medical and mental health problems with dignity and solutions."

I left some teary-eyed people in that eye exam theater. We plan to meet again, several times over.

I hope you'll respond to the scenario I've described. Your comments are welcome! 

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 (the license to do is in the book!). 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 to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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

Face frightening people with the right response!


 

Heads Up, College Students!

B'SD

28 Nisan, 5773 

I've been offline to protect my PC from hackers. I'm sorry to be limiting my communication with you. I hope that things will be back to normal after April 10th.

Life does have its fun, rewarding side, though. Tomorrow I'm scheduled to meet with vision clinic college students. 

They're interested in testing my eyes plus hearing about the natural healing techniques that restored my sight. They'll be examining my eyes with machines you've probably never heard of, marveling at the physical evidence that shows how I could have been left blind forever.

I might have some interesting comments 

to share with you after the adventure.

If any students planning to attend that class tomorrow are reading this blogpost, keep your heads up, ears and mind open. I have surprises in store for you.

 
Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter tomorrow: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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

Look forward to making life fun, despite the setbacks.

 

Cybersecurity and You

B'SD

26 Nisan, 5773

Here's an update to the cyber-threat I posted the other day: Facebook Virus Hits Israel Days Before Planned Attack.

The day originally "planned" for cyberwar on Israel's Jews was Holocaust Remembrance Day, a national institution. We know that Holocaust deniers and their ilk wish us dead. Their denials coincide with threats and malicious efforts to harm Jews worldwide, not only in Israel.

Israel is a world leader in medical innovations that benefit the world. International notables of many faiths and skin colors are part of the team.

I'm doing what I can to heal 

broken hearts and bodies 

with

I advertise the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print and E- book on two different Facebook pages.

I hope you'll buy a copy to help someone who needs it. And to keep me going. People I've never met and never harmed are trying to put me out of business.

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

Don't let the bad guys win by hurting you or someone you respect. In any manner.

(and be careful when you're online)

Here's How Crying Over a Crisis Can Lead to Solutions!

B'SD

25 Nisan, 5773

Back in 2004, a neighbor scolded me for crying at my new brain tumor diagnosis (the scenario implied imminent death, the failure of medical personnel to notify me of the tumor for over 1.5 years when it could have been removed in an outpatient procedure, the need to identify and to locate a brain surgeon able to remove it without killing me in the process 1.5 years later etc) because "GOD only gives us what we can take." 

I responded "It's MY Crisis and I'll cry if I need to!"

Then I chose to face the future with dignity, empowering myself to beat the odds.

GOD obviously said an "Amen." 

But the comment that the woman had uttered could have destroyed many other people frightened of their circumstances.

Her one-upsmanship words came from fear, and a sense of relief that she wasn't facing her own mortality. Such people actually want someone ill to withdraw from society. That soothes cowardly psyches.

Keep the courageous spirit and sense of humor going by letting your tears fall freely. 

Once you've felt a bit of relief from that, you'll be better able to see the future and to face it with creativity, an open-mindedness to solutions you can now discover and consider. 

If you need help to develop that courage, creativity, sense of humor - even to identify necessary healing strategies and ways to afford them, read

 

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

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

Face down the fear, and come out a winner!


 

Bracing for Cyberwar!

B'SD

22 Nisan, 5773

I enjoyed a pleasant Passover/Pesakh  holiday week and woke up this morning to unpleasant news: Israel Braces for Massive Cyber-offensive.

That attack - if it happens - will follow several others launched towards other parts of the world. I had recently alerted some Facebook friends to the reality:

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  Yocheved Golani More peace partners, hard at workhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166609#.UVO9HhdBPSg
  

  
  

  'Hacktivists' Vow to 'Erase Israel From Internet'

  www.israelnationalnews.com
  

  “Hackers Anonymous” vows to “erase Israel from the Internet” in coordinated attack.

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  Yocheved Golani Er, Spam fighter Spamhaus seems to be losing the fight to keep us connectedhttp://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/27/spam-blocking-group-spamhaus-reports-being-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-many/
  

  
  

  Internet 'bystanders' affected as massive cyberattack hits Spamhaus

  www.foxnews.com
  

  Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus says it's being subjected to a massive cyber...See More

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  Yocheved Golanihttp://www.ted.com/playlists/10/who_are_the_hackers.html
  

  
  

  Who are the hackers? | TED Playlists | TED

  www.ted.com
  

  The Internet connects us as never before, but there's a dark 

I ask you to do yourself, me, and ailing people a BIG favor: counter the nastiness with niceness. 

Buy copies of 

   

 and give them to people 

who need them. 

Cyber attacks are efforts to hurt people indiscriminately. 

Those people include you, me and the ill folks who'd benefit from the book's information about how to lower their stress and to find help in paying their medical bills.

 
Buy the E-book or print edition today for a better look at your future. Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 


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

Take back your life. Help someone with theirs.