YOU are Your Own BEST Medical Advocate!

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12 Adar, 5778

The reason that EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge advises you that "YOU are your own best advocate" is clearly explained in a recent New York Times article!!!

SundayReview | OPINION

Doctors, Revolt! By RICH JOSEPHFEB. 24, 2018

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Dr. Bernard Lown, 96, at home in Newton, Mass. A celebrated pioneer in cardiology, Dr. Lown laments that modern medicine too often disregards the healing aspect. CreditKatherine Taylor for The New York Times

Boston — The 96-year-old patient with pneumonia in Bed 11 was angry. “Do you really need to check my vital signs every four hours?” he asked.

Read the rest of the story here.

Many other demeaning things can happen in medical settings, and they're not pleasant to endure nor to overcome.

Read page 31 of

to learn why YOU are Your Own Best Medical Advocate, and how be one! 

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 mind with information on how to meet your needs. The Global Resources section of the book is loaded with information about charitable organizations that can pay some or all of your specific medical bills, how to arrange medical flights, how to advocate for yourself, how to join clinical trials, how to acquire hospital gowns to protect your dignity, and LOTS more.

The Power of Optimism

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8 Adar, 5778

Whew, the happiness of Purim  culminates next week (Wednesday night and Thursday for most people this year, Thursday night and Friday for Jews in Jerusalem). I'm hanging on to that as sad headlines fill newscasts.

About feeling down... Plato had something to say about that.

Let's look at life from a different angle, to cheer up a bit, OK?


​  I want to share some nice news. This past summer, the neuro-ophthalmologist following my case (recovery from total blindness due to crushed optic nerves, and very compromised health) made an announcement dictated into my official medical records. He indicated that none of the staff members had had a clue how to help me to see again once the BENIGN brain tumor had been removed after crushing my optic and other nerves. However, "full credit goes to the patient who invested in alternative healing techniques" and recovered her vision and strength (I do aerobics, swim, bike, work, and have a social life). She had faith in herself and her future, and figured out how to restore her sight. 

Read about what I'd done to heal, how and why other ill people can mimic those actions and mindsets to heal as well as they can, too. 


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

Find out what's possible for YOU.






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

Fill your efforts with a can-do attitude. Heal your heart and mind, maybe your body.

Happiness Heals Inside, and that Helps the Outside!

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4 Adar, 5778

Here I am, pondering an important thought:

 "Adar is the month of joy."

Israelis celebrate the fun, festive holiday of Purim for the two weeks leading to the celebration. Here's some silliness that all of us can share, and feel better for enjoying the presentation:

Now I want to remind you of a life lesson that can promote inner and outer healing.

Nurture Your Inner Giggle!

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

Read it to find out what a sense of humor can do to promote health!

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

Fill your plate with feel-good efforts and rewards.

How to Persevere PAST PAIN, No Drugs Involved!

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Adar 3, 5778

You might have read any of my several articles and op-eds about America's opioid epidemic. I am convinced that the core of the problem is a need to know coping mechanisms, and to feel comfort with them.

This news update reminded me of the necessity to be able to deal with physical and/or emotional pain without drugs:

Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Office Struggling To Keep Up With Deadly Overdoses

I'm not in some ivory tower, folks, I speak from experience. Remember when I recovered from debilitating RSD/CRPS several years ago? It was a matter of choice, focus and effort. My medical team was stunned at the speed and thoroughness of my recovery and alerted their other patients to my innovative technique (some of them bought the book to understand me and the healing processes that I use a bit better!).

Each of us has different chemistries and needs. Different pain-fighting techniques work for one person, perhaps not for another.

Seek out and use what works for you.

Do not succumb to drug dependence. Drugs are great for getting over hurdles and preventing harm. But when they become a source of harm, we need to rely on user-friendly resources instead.

Click on some of your options, below. Look for others as necessary.

Blessings in the Universe. 

Craniosacral Therapy can Help to Restore Function, LOWER/End Pain.

Food to Feed Your Soul and to END Pain (no sugar necessary!).

 HA! Laughing my Way to Better Health

Use Your Personal Pain-o-Meter!

Read about how natural healing techniques restored my sight, strength, and abilities and what those life lessons just might do for you!

The book holds information about FOODS that fight pain. 

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Help yourself or someone who needs the information inside the covers.

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

Fill your efforts with determination to succeed.

EMPOWER Yourself! Let the Global Resources section Help YOU Past Medical Setbacks!

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1 Adar (the real first day!), 5778

The Global Resources section of 

follows the prose which calms people reading the book or with loved ones. Sometimes the prose leaves readers laughing out loud.

I suggest that you read that Global Resources section, too, and several times.

You might be surprised to learn of some cutting-edge practitioners and treatments that can help you.

One of my readers accessed the very doctor I recommended for treating fibromyalgia. Let's look at her recent update, which she permits me to share with you:

--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fibro Buddies <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 1:36 PM
Subject: [New post] 9 year Guaifenesin Protocol progress report by Lxxx Sxxx
To:  @ gmail. com

New post on Fibro Buddies 9 year Guaifenesin Protocol progress report by Laurie Sussman by Christine I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia back in 1997 after a horrible car accident. My neurologist at the time sent me for every test in the book and then some, before she made the diagnosis.  I struggled with teaching for the next 10 years, sometimes wearing braces on my arms or back to keep upright, and sometimes without full vision in one eye from the fibromyalgia. Read more of this post Christine | February 15, 2018 at 4:36 am | Tags: 9 years, fibro updates, Laurie Sussman, progress report, success stories | Categories: Fibromyalgia, Guaifenesin Protocol, Success Stories | URL: https://wp.me/p4HyjN-1qG Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Fibro Buddies. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://fibrobuddies.net/9-year-guaifenesin-protocol-progress-report-by-laurie-sussman/

Ready to feel better from information that serves your needs? 

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

You might even learn of organizations willing to pay part, or all, of your specific medical costs! 

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

Fill your schedule with people and treatments that help you.

America Needs Mental/Emotional Health Curricula: A Call to Action

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30 Shvat/1 Adar, 5778

The first of Adar is usually a joyous time, heralding the Purim holiday soon to come. But instead of smiling, I weep and shudder with thousands if not millions of people grieving over a recent school shooting in Florida.

You've read some of my articles about mental health at the e-counseling site. Did you know that...

I have advocated for mental /emotional health skills curricula in schools and businesses for decades. There is ample proof that too many people lack them. By the time a nervous breakdown or school shooting happens, the signs of mental health missing in action have long been evident. Western society brings in the shrinks far too late to have saved lives ruined for a lack of familiarity and comfort with mental /emotional health techniques.

Folks, this is NOT an issue about gun control. 

Distraught people can use any weapons of opportunity be they vehicles such as terrorists use to run over pedestrians and concert goers, knives, explosives, fists, chemicals, etc. The problem is a messed up mind, not ammunition.

I've written about the horror before, to put it into perspective. Read No Quick Fixes.

No Quick Fixes Yocheved Golani	No Quick Fixes © Yocheved Golani 1999

Mental health curricula in schools and at the workplace need support from legal authorities. Necessary follow-up to protect the public from potentially harmful people is called for. 

Nikolas Cruz's threat to society was clearly not handled that way. 

Mental health professionals and law enforcement professionals must work together to create sensible, productive protocols. Interventions that prevent loss of life and other forms of suffering, are necessary.

Do what you can to promote mental and emotional health lessons in your part of the world. Lives depend on that.





Calm  down over your medical issues with a book that mental health professionals recommend. 

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 public places with mental and emotional health lessons and attitudes.

Power Up Your Positive Emotions. Here's How!

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29 Shvat, 5778

A positive mindset is critical for anyone's health.

I completely appreciate the frustration, pain and efforts that anyone must invest in developing that attitude as life hits us with an onslaught of problems and unexpected complications. 

No, I'm not in some ivory tower. I have felt problems and unexpected complications, even heartache, too. I made firm, repeated decisions to overcome them. According to the people around me, that focus seems to have paid off.

If you need a reminder of how to promote a sense of optimism No Matter What, please read the thought-provoking, inspirational, and sometimes Laugh Out Loud content in doctor-recommended

Need some instant inspiration? This might help.

Ponder those thoughts awhile. They're powerful, with a potential for endless healing.

Need something else to motivate your emotional strength progress? Seek it out.




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 soul with happiness. Work on the project as necessary.

Putting Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Carob, Hymenectomy & many Medical Outcomes together in One Informative Blogpost!

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17 Shvat, 5778

I thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Tu B'Shvat with friends, and amusing Talmud study classmates with a relevant home made treat this week. Here's the gluten-free recipe, full of amounts that I used. But you can choose whatever seems appropriate to you the preparer (you choose how much to use of everything, depending on the size of the crowd you'll feed):

Yocheved's Sno-balls

Ingredients:

​

1 package Carob

​ powder

​6-12 chopped​

 Mint leaves

​1 teaspoon Negohot ​

honey

​half a can of ​

Coconut creme

Shredded coconut

as needed.

​ 

​Use LOTS of arm power to mix the batter (everything except the shredded coconut),​ then use 
MORE arm power to roll the rounds 
in shredded coconut 
(it's a VERY messy recipe BTW).

Place the rounds in a freezeable container,
then store it on a freezer shelf.

Eat at will on hot, humid days when
you need a refresher, and whenever you wish.

Mind the calories. I'm a bit timid about calculating them!

Back to business:

I have been busy editing some more medical research documents, and learned fascinating information about solutions to uterine-preserving Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) procedures, plus The Impact of Hymenectomy on Future Gynecological and Obstetrical Outcomes.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to work with experts who trust me to prepare their findings for publication.

It is an indescribable joy to know the information that I can share with people who need it as I pursue my life coaching of ill people.

I've been striving to help several people with a variety of health issues these past few weeks. 

One of the best things that I can recommend is to anyone experiencing illness is to follow up on the need to refresh emotionally and physically drained realities. Cheer yourself on with motivating mottoes, posters and people.

Need ideas about how to do that?

Buy and read 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 yourself with hope and strength.