Here's How to Request Co-Pay Assistance for the Treatment of Brain Tumors in the Past Three (3) Months!

B'SD

14 SHVAT, 5779

On January 11th I'd let you know of a pending development for financial help directed at people with brain tumors. I'm relieved to let you know that the Musella Foundation's help is now reality:

• Copay assistance program is now open!         Thanks to generous donations, we are able to reopen our copay assistance program!  We have a lookback period of 3 months from when the completed application arrives so if you are approved, and have paid for a covered treatment in the last 3 months we can reimburse you!  

While we're on the topic of health, I want to share another health-promoting idea with you. It's some news that I'd shared in a newsletter that I prepare for a local organic foods farm:

People who prefer organic food tend to eat lots of fiber, and that's a good thing, too. Find out why when you click on The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of!

The next time that you and your family wake up to a chilly morning, bake sweet potatoes with the skins on for a hot, high-fiber breakfast that's very satisfying. Little ones will think that they're eating dessert for breakfast! If you need to convince finicky eaters to eat sweet potatoes in the skins, remove the pulp and whip it with beaters. Serve the results in a cereal bowl (they're easier to chew and to swallow) and show the child that you're eating the skin bit by bit with a big grin on your face. Temptation can be a powerful motivator. If that doesn't convince a tough customer to eat the skin, drop the subject and be happy that the little ones ate a hot, hearty bowl of sweet potatoes packed with nutrition all of their own.

ENJOY THAT VITAMIN A BOOST. 

It's a simple way to way improve your overall health. 

Read the reality check in the news article

How to live longer: Eat sweet potato daily to slash cancer and high blood pressure.

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Cancer Causes, Dumb Diets, Rude Doctors, and...

B'SD

8 Shvat, 5779

There's plenty of good news in the medical world, and some of it is because increasing numbers of doctors admit that their recommended diets don't work. 

Studies are being reconsidered, redesigned, and reclassified so that medical professionals can help people to lose weight easily and sensibly. Increasing attention is being paid to those of us who do not struggle with weight control, and why.

Those updated healthcare professionals can help people to prevent becoming overweight in the first place.

For those of us in the natural healing world, weight control is a matter of understanding specific principles. Here's a starter kit for thinking as we do:

Food is a significant part of the problem - the WRONG food, that is. It can affect fertility, weight, energy levels, health, mood, and more.

I know one naturopath invited to many baby namings because she advises infertility clients to stop ingesting dairy foods. They're full of Mama Animal's hormones, designed to fatten up her children. They create havoc with human hormones. Add in the synthetic hormones from hygiene products that I've warned you about at this blog, and infertility plus obesity easily become "OMIGAWD why am I fat and/or infertile?" issues.

Keep thinking with me.

People complain that they can't keep their weight down as they swallow more lo-cal ice cream, lo-fat cottage and reduced-calories sliced cheese, etc. THEY EAT THEIR OWN PROBLEM, GUARANTEEING THAT IT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THEY STOP SWALLOWING DAIRY "FOODS" DESIGNED FOR ANIMALS, NOT FOR HUMANS.

Weight control is not simply a matter 

of calorie restrictions. 

If you eat dairy foods you eat 

hormonal instructions 

to make your body fat.

It's also important to support thyroid health when your energy levels fall and your weight rises. Add iodine-rich seaweed to your menus.

Sushi is made with nori leaves. Enjoy your weight-management meal.

Kombu is a seaweed sold in flakes and as leaves. Add them to your lentil dishes.

Arame, wakame and other sea leaves make lovely additions to a meal. I decorate steaming hot sweet potato with strands of arame, The pretty orange-green color combination is eye candy. The flavor of the dish is mouth candy that's nutritious for inner and outer health.

There's far more to the natural weight-control life. I only offered a glimpse into it with the thoughts above.

Okay, on to the next topic for today: WHEN DOCTORS BLAME THEIR PATIENTS FOR PROBLEMS THAT THEY DIDN'T CAUSE!

The problem is close to my heart: a good friend was diagnosed with Smoker's Lung. She's never touched a cigarette in her life and neither has her husband. Air and other pollution gave her the disease. 

The article below will inform you of other possibilities, and about rude medical professionals who need to be guided into good behavior techniques. Click on...

Life & Death --- Literally
What happens when the doctor blames you for your own lung cancer? 
By Dr. Monica Bhargava

A pulmonary and critical-care physician on how bias in the medical community hurts lung cancer patients

Know the warning signs 

The

book holds passages about how best to respond to irate, irascible, and otherwise rude doctors, technicians and nurses. Read it to prepare yourself for an appropriate self defense. There are ways to solve the problem.






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Financial Help for People with Brain Tumors

B'SD

5 Shvat, 5779

Dr Musella's organization (the Musella Brain Tumor Research Foundation) is superb and his own upbeat remark is among the back-cover praises for the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book.

Check out the Just Announced good news for people who need financial help with brain tumor treatment!

Al Musella

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Our copayment assistance program is probably going to reopen soon!

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  Tiffani Rockwell Fomera What program is that?

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  Melanie Metcalf Lovell Tiffani, it helps people to purchase medicine when they might not otherwise be able to due to high insurance co-pays/deductibles. This is the program I have always contributed to, because as necessary as animal testing may be, as a vegan I am not comfortable funding testing on animals. This is a win-win....I can contribute to this program and help those fighting GBMs without funding animal research.

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  Al Musella Braintumorcopays.org we help malignant brain tumor patients pay for Optune, Temodar, Gliadel and Avastin!

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  Al Musella As to animal research, for those of you who do not want to fund animal research, you can tell us to only use the donation for human research. We gave a $1 million grant which will only be used to treat pediatric brain tumors - the grant is 4 payments of $250,000 over 3 years. We are saving up for the next payment. You can always donate to that!

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There's more helpful information for people with other medical and mental health issues in the Global Resources section of

 


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Here's How to Train Your Brain to Memorize More Easily

B'SD

4 Shvat, 5779

Among the things that I've learned during my Health Information Management career are memory improvement skills. 

I learned other memory boosters in rehabilitation efforts following my brain surgery.

I wrote of those memory enhancers 

and how to do them in the 

"How to Organize" passages

and elsewhere in 

The following article is only an overview of the possibilities for improving your memory.

Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion

If you have trouble remembering names, faces or phone numbers, these tips from memory champions and neuroscientists can help.

By BRYAN CLARK

Jan. 9, 2019

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CPR to the Rescue!

B'SD

3 Shvat, 5779

I was with some friends last evening and one of them suddenly looked rather ill. A doctor, he was feeling weak, dizzy, and a bit nauseated. He seemed to be struggling to breathe.

​I asked permission to feel his face and neck to check for clammy skin. It was dry and warm to the touch.

I asked if his left arm felt painful.​ ​He was slow to respond "No, my stomach bothers me." My concern grew.

He turned quite pale. I gave him a prec​autionary aspirin to chew on and asked "Doctor, you know what I'm d​oing and why, don't you?​" He nodded.​ 

He was showing signs of a pending heart attack or one in progress.

​I told him that he needs to be examined by an emergency room doctor. 

S​hort story: he's okay, just overtired from too much stress and excessive work hours. It was not a heart attack.

Folks, I was following the instructions that I'd learned in a CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) course. It is important to know how to respond calmly and capably in a time of suspected medical emergency. PLEASE seek out such a class for yourselves. You might end up saving a life or two.

P​S - The doctor called to thank me for checking him. He knew exactly what I'd suspected the whole time and appreciated that someone could have saved his life on the spot if necessary.

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Cost-Cutting Ideas to Improve YOUR Medical Care

B'SD

2 Shvat, 5779

I read a headline and knew that I have to share it with you. 

Please click on High prices make U.S. the biggest health care spender among Developed Countries!

You need superb medical care and you don't need debt. That's why I invested my energies in writing

Inspirational plus Can-Do, Do it Yourself information fills the book. 

The Global Resources section  informs you of worldwide organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical expenses. All you need to do is to apply for the assistance and to submit correct paperwork.

Ready to rock your recovery and coping skills?

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

 




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Fill your mind with relaxing thoughts.