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November Is Family Caregiver Month; Are You Facing Elder Care?

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Funny thing about life …

If you stick around long enough you get old!

When it comes to aging, it’s a blessing to have loved ones around to care for you.

When it comes to caregiving, it’s a blessing to have your loved ones around long enough to really enjoy them.

Caregiving is the biggest challenge you will ever know…

Whether it’s taking care of your children or watchfully enjoying your elders until you see they need your assistance,

… Caregiving is a job that will require you to dig deep.

I absolutely love this elder comedian, for reminding all of us in the care giving as well as receiving roles, to remember that laughter really is the best medicine!

I’ve been serving caregivers on Heart Failure Solutions.com for just over 2 years.  End of life issues challenge a caregiver far beyond the normal daily work load.

Getting elder care advice when you need it most is the biggest stress relief of all!  Heart Failure Solutions will soon be a private membership site dealing with end of life issues.

If you are providing elder care,  or  if YOU are living with extreme fatigue, low oxygen levels or significant fluid retention Heart Failure Solutions is a place to get timely advice that you can apply to prevent your life from being cut short.

Even more important than that, Heart Failure Solutions can help you protect quality of life, yours and those you are caring for.

You are certainly not interested in prolonging suffering!

Joy is what you want more of!

You could feel Mary’s Joy in the video you just watched  … couldn’t you?

She was expressing her gratitude to Home Instead, just one of the many caregiver organizations where heroes gather to give care.

November is the month to show all caregivers some love!

Elder care is a joy in many cases, and it is a multifaceted challenge in others.

Your biggest challenge as a caregiver is self compassion.

Finding time for you can be rough with so much on your shoulders.

The better you take care of you, the better you take care of them, and the more Joy you create in your life.  You want more Joy, right?

Compassionate Caregiving is about helping you find the answers you need.  It’s also a safe place to bring your questions.

You need quick resources to get answers fast!

Do you know what all your options are?

Dr. Ina Gilmore and I are passionate about helping you take care of business quickly so you can get back to having fun!  We know what you are going through, because it’s a road we have both traveled.  Dr. Ina and I are no stranger to hands on caregiving.

You need to know how to build your health so that you don’t have to rely on drugging symptoms.  Dr. Ina and I support you in exploring all your options.

You’ll want to put Heart Failure Solutions on your daily calendar, and bring your questions here.  Getting answers quickly is the only way you are going to get around to taking care of yourself!

When you come online searching for information are you looking for answers to help you care for your patients or yourself?

Caregivers Need Support With:

  • diabetes
  • blood pressure
  • dementia
  • asthma/lung disease
  • bed sores
  • heart failure

You get so good at addressing those issues you can even talk the medical lingo!

The problem arises when your caregiving schedule starts to break YOU down.

You are so exhausted you don’t recognize your own burn out!

You should be searching for information to help YOU!

Do you know how to:

  • recognize your own symptoms of depression?
  • combat your feelings of depression the safe and natural way?
  • avoid burnout?

Caregiving makes you vulnerable to secondary stress!

Nurture yourself or suffer the consequences!

Caregiving for the caregiver keeps everyone happy!

Join The Life Breath Club and Get Connected To Health and Wellness Support!

Join The Life Breath Club Today!

This is a private membership to protect your medical privacy!

It’s free!

 

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

 

Are You Too Proud To Heal From Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

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Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

When you think of “shell shock” what comes to mind?

During World War One Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome was a huge problem. Doctors believed that the tell tale “thousand yard stare” was a sign that the close proximity of exploding shells had caused trauma to the brain.

If you take that reasoning into consideration, it is troublesome to discover that it was common practice for Doctors to prescribe rest away from the front for Officers, while enlisted men were often accused of being cowards and sent right back out to the battlefield.

Some were shot for cowardice, or punished in a variety of creative ways.  Though enlisted men would be more likely to have been in close proximity of exploding shells than Officers, wouldn’t they?

If you are likely to be shot on the spot or court martialed you aren’t very likely to seek help when you need it most.

It seems that the history of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome is one of shame and persecution.

With soldier suicides being such a huge issue in today’s world, you hear a lot about what they are doing to identify those who need help in an effort to control the climbing death toll.

The struggle today is to get soldiers to admit that they need help before it’s too late.  They aren’t facing a firing squad, but they feel like they are letting their unit down.  They aren’t keeping up their end.

Admitting that you need help with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome feels like admitting a weakness.

When you think of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome you might think of soldiers at war.  However, emergency response workers are on the front lines of daily life.

Identifying those who need help among emergency response workers can be very difficult as well.  Admitting you need help might endanger your job and your livelihood.

Family caregivers are at risk as well.  Continue reading Are You Too Proud To Heal From Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? →

Are There Tools To Help Manage Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

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Are There Tools To Help Manage Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?
Are There Tools To Help Manage Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

Having trouble coping with the stress in your life?

Do you feel on edge?

Have you been over-reacting to small irritants?

It’s not a good feeling to see yourself reacting and be unable to stop yourself.

After all, you want to choose your response to life, rather than reacting unconsciously.

Don’t you?

Over the weekend, I was headed home on the highway when a bad car accident happened just ahead of me.

When I arrived at the scene I got out to see if anyone was needing help.  The accident involved a very large truck and a very small car.

The passengers of the car were really lucky, it could have been so much worse.  They really didn’t seem to need any help I could offer so I stood back to wait for the paramedics.

I noticed that a teenage passenger from the car was getting really intense and freaking out with the most injured passenger who was still in the back of the car.

He was screaming, asking her not to die and begging her not to go to sleep.  I was concerned that he was going to hurt her worse than she already was, so Continue reading Are There Tools To Help Manage Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? →

Is Tolerance the Tie That Binds Different Types of Religion?

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How important is tolerance in your religion?

Do you find yourself helping God with his job as Judge?

I met JoAnn about 10 years ago, after I answered an ad she had placed in the paper.  We hit it off right away and have been close friends ever since.

She is almost 40 years my senior, but we seem to speak the same language.  We both value spiritual growth and often talk about tolerance and God’s unconditional Love.

Many of JoAnn’s neighbors have tried to “save her” by inviting her to their churches.  She tells me that she appreciates their kindness, but Continue reading Is Tolerance the Tie That Binds Different Types of Religion? →

Can You Trust Your Community For Help With Symptoms of Depression?

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Recently I had the opportunity to reflect on a very difficult health crisis and how it effected my family.

I was sorting paper work, getting rid of clutter and cherishing wonderful memories and keep sakes as I discovered them among the chaos.

One tattered piece of paper I opened as I was filing, was a writing exercise that my oldest daughter had written  several months after my recovery.

Looking back, I realize that I was unaware how deeply the incident had effected her.  Briana is usually very good at expressing her emotions, but I’m sure she was trying to “take care of mom”, and didn’t want to worry me with her anxiety.

The whole ordeal took a lot out of me.   Life was kinda foggy for me at the time.  I was doing all I could just to get back on my feet, and I wasn’t even recognizing my own symptoms of depression.

It makes me a little sad that I wasn’t there for her, but I’m so glad that she was able to express those feelings right there in her creative writing class almost a year later.

In 2005, at the end of March, my baby brother was born.

Just a bundle of velvet skin.

I was so anxious that something might happen to my mom, but everything was fine.

A few months later, I was alarmed and frightened to see my mother’s neck slowly blow up like a balloon.

Soon it looked like a red rock sticking out of her neck.

It was scary.

She went to the doctor, and they put her in the hospital.  When that happened, Continue reading Can You Trust Your Community For Help With Symptoms of Depression? →

Is There a Simple Solution To Universal Health Care?

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Universal Health Care

What if there was a simple natural remedy for fatigue? …

For Swine Flu? …

For the common cold? …..

Do you think your doctor would tell you about it?

What if this same natural remedy was found to cure bad breath, acne, stomach aches, and bone cancer?

Surely a natural substance with all those benefits would be on the evening news … right?

What if this natural remedy had no side effects and was perfectly safe to be given to the old and frail, AND the very young?

This type of good news would travel fast, don’t you think?

Where there is NO profit to be made, this remedy actually IS being used to treat patients and the research is being recorded.

We are talking legitimate science here.

In the United States and Canada this natural remedy is being successfully used in nursing homes to revitalize their elderly tenants.

This natural remedy is very safe to administer and has no side effects.

You’d think that under the circumstances, the powers that be would be testing this natural remedy!  Hell, maybe Universal Health Care really is affordable and realistic.

The Scientists of today accept this natural remedy as “Ram Ban” medicine, which means it is very effective medicine for all kinds of disease.

Is it hard for you to believe that this wonderful news would be suppressed?

Why would a cost effective medicine that really helps people not be widely used and accepted in the medical community?

Are you aware that if there were an alternative treatment discovered for chemo therapy 98% of all the medical institutions in the United States would be devastated, and likely teeter on the verge of bankruptcy?

Barry Lynes, author of The Healing of Cancer, cites evidence that the FDA itself has a history of ignoring dangerous drugs and chemical additives marketed by drug companies while using bureaucratic delays, legal harassment, unconstitutional procedures, and falsified evidence to stop alternative cures.

Just be aware that “first, do no harm” is an oath that every doctor must make.

When the system puts profit before benefit, that oath becomes a joke.

So who can you trust to give you the simple truth?

Speaking the simple truth may very well put me under scrutiny, but I am ready to speak out and face the wrath of the drug lords and the brain washed citizens who want to believe that they are powerless victims of disease.

Are you wondering what that simple natural remedy is that has the respect of scientists around the world? Continue reading Is There a Simple Solution To Universal Health Care? →