Heart disease is killing us more than everything else combined.
An epidemic of heart failure is responsible for the soaring death count!
If you are like most people, you are likely to listen to the medical merchants who will want to manage your heart disease with medical intervention every 10 years.
Yes! Every 10 years.
Coronary artery bypass surgery statistically needs to be repeated every 10 years.
Surgically managing your disease means Continue reading article
If you have recently received a CHF diagnosis, I don’t want to minimize your concern about what heart failure treatment you might need.
Certainly you must immediately address the life threatening fluid retention that is associated with acute heart failure if you have reached a point that it threatens your life!
Your doctor actually doesn’t want to medicate your fluid retention until he/she absolutely has too. “Water Pills” make you pee off important vitamins and minerals so it really isn’t good for you.
The only reason your doctor would prescribe drugs for fluid retention is because the alternative is worse than the damage the drugs will cause. Heart failure is a serious diagnosis, so you must allow your health care team to stabilize your fragile state before you question the choices you face.
Remember oxygen IS a drug and it is also a vital nutrient!
Once you have achieved a stable balance it is time to realize that your situation didn’t happen over night and it won’t heal over night.
It’s time to take a look at what needs to change and change it! Continue reading article
My conversation with Briana about Bucket List ideas the other day got me singing the song from the movie.
I absolutely love the song sung by John Mayer that addresses a huge issue some folks never work through in their entire life time.
Do you “Say What You Need To Say”?
My daughter’s Bucket List includes travel and chocolate.
Personally, I like the idea of a Bucket List that gives me Peace when I lie down to die.
Saying what I have to say, when I have to say it, would give me more Peace than all the travel and chocolate I could consume in a lifetime!
It’s not like I really have a choice.
I HAVE to “Say What I Need To Say”!
The alternative is to swallow it and let it rot my guts.
I’ve always wondered how people swallow their truth. It makes me think, “Is the truth more costly than rotten guts?”
There is no way to know without walking a mile in another’s shoes, but still I’ve got to wonder.
Recently I was hired to assess an in home care giving situation.
The elderly woman receiving the care had been experiencing dementia symptoms for over a decade.
At times she was very lucid and you could see how intelligent and thoughtful she was.
At other times she couldn’t remember her children’s names.
One particularly enlightening conversation I had with this sweet woman helped me to see Continue reading article
I am the proud parent of a 2012 graduate!
As I sat in the audience listening to my daughter give her acceptance speech, I wondered if she had been born a keynote motivational speaker or if it was her many years of theater and attending a school that required lots of presentation.
Can you teach someone to be inspiring or is that a skill they are born with?
I asked Briana that question, she said, “Both.”
The kid has grown up in a theater, so a stage is definitely someplace she feels comfortable.
But sitting there watching her hold the attention of every person in that audience, getting a good laugh from the crowd, I wondered how she came to possess that skill.
Keynote Motivational Speakers may not seem like deal changers.
But a powerful speaker who can Continue reading article
If you have ever suffered from significant fluid retention you know how 
UNCOMFORTABLE it is!
Hell, it’s down right painful!
There’s that fluid retention for women during their monthly, but then there is a whole ‘nother level of suffering when the fluid retention really starts to effect the way you absorb oxygen, nourishment, vitamins and minerals.
When your fluid retention begins to interfere in your bodily processes, you will be painfully aware of it!
People tend to minimize the severity of fluid retention because their doctors don’t seem to get very worked up about it … until they see end of life issues, anyway.
You should know that the reason your doctor does not take action concerning your fluid retention is because drugging fluid retention is NOT a healthy thing to do!
If you retain fluid to the point that your ankles are swelling, your fluid retention issue HAS become an obstacle to your vibrant health and wellness.
Significant ankle swelling means Continue reading article