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This is post 28 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to attract all that you need. I do it every day! Read the posts in this series to see how.
I interviewed a woman named Cheryl Harvey Hill, who'll be featured on this blog in the next few weeks. Three times she's been so sick the doctors put her into hospice care and declared she wouldn't survive. Three times she's recovered! I get chills from how much Cheryl inspires me! When I asked how she puts her health problems into perspective so she can go on with her life in the face of doctors saying she's going to die, she said:
As simple as it may sound, it really is a matter of counting your blessings. Seriously. You only need to look at the six 'o clock news to see folks who are much worse off than you are. Then too, I have been blessed with amazing friends and family who are so positive all the time; they are great cheerleaders. It's all about choices. You can choose to feel sorry for yourself or you can choose to concentrate on the positive things in your life. I have a lot of positive things in my life so I choose to concentrate on those things. My illness can fend for itself.
Cheryl's spirit got me thinking. I have my Conscious Gratitude list on Yahoo that people have the opportunity to post blessings on. Few post regularly. I try to post every day. Most people don't. Some post occasionally when they have some big news or something special happened. Cheryl finds things every day to focus on, and that helps to heal her. I try to do that too when I post my blessings every day! And when I read what others post, it reminds me of other things I should express gratitude for.
When you recognize almost everything good in your life as a blessing, it's easier to feel very blessed.
And when you feel blessed, you attract more blessings. In Cheryl's case, she attracted better health by being grateful for all the good things in her life. She recently left hospice again after her docs told her husband that she wouldn't make it this time. Cheryl beats the odds by choosing to get well and letting her blessings heal her. By not focusing on her illness, she makes it easier for healing to come to her. She attracts the happiness she attracts from her blessings.
Focusing on your blessings tells sends a message that your intentions are to have blessings. That allows the Law of Attraction to attract more blessings.
I learned one of the most valuable lessons of my life when I was young. I had a friend (I'll call her Meg) who was VERY spoiled. She had every toy, every doll, every game, every music album, etc. Not surprising that I envied her! One day I asked my mom to buy me a doll that Meg had. She wouldn't, explaining I had enough. I balked and whined that Meg had so much while I had so little. Mom vehemently disagreed. She pointed out that Meg rarely seemed happy in her pursuit of the next new purchase to bug her parents for. With all of the wonderful things she had to play with, Meg was more focused on what to ask for next than on what she had.
While I was too young to understand the concept of counting one's blessings, I did learn the importance of appreciating what you have.
Mom pointed out that I loved my 2 dolls. Meg had many more but tossed them around like garbage. Mine were special to me. I still remember their names—Nancy and Abigail. Meg barely named hers since they were expendable as she continued getting new ones. I cherished mine as my babies. After that, I paid more attention to Meg's lack of appreciation for everything as mine increased. I did love what I had and I took more pleasure in it! Since then, my attention to the small details of the good in my life increased. It helps me to wake up smiling every day!
Counting your blessings helps prevent taking your life for granted, which I think a majority of people do. Every little joyous thing is a reason to celebrate life if you recognize it as a such. I do!
I got out of DoorMatville! I'm grateful for that every day. It doesn't get old or fade away. I am happy! I am confident! I feel powerful! I help others to feel this way! I never get tired of being grateful for that! I post blessings on my Conscious Gratitude list list almost every day. Often I give thanks for the same blessings over and over, like sunshine, sleeping well and good friends. It makes me more conscious that these are things that make me happy, which in turn makes me happier. Blessings shouldn't get old by taking them for granted. Appreciation for all the good in your life attracts lots more to appreciate!
I saw Meg at a school reunion. She still seems unhappy and continues trying to organize activities. Meg seems to still need entertainment or extras. It was a great reminder to never take blessings for granted. Look around you? What do you have that you like? Acknowledge it out loud. Write it down. Let all the blessings you may not acknowledge often bathe you in the warmth that gratitude brings. For me, appreciating all the little things I like stokes my happiness each day. After being an unhappy DoorMat for so long, I love the smile they keep on my face. ?
Stoke your own happiness and good health by letting the Law of Attraction respond to your thoughts about your blessings!
Cheryl conquers life with her blessings and I try to do that do. Pay attention to what you have instead of what you lack and to what feels good instead of dwelling on what feels bad. It can put you in a better mood, improve your health and attract more blessings. Stay tuned for a full interview with Cheryl Harvey Hill.
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Terrie M. Williams began her career as a social worker. When she saw an article about public relations, she says it lit a fire in her. She launched The Terrie Williams Agency into one of the most successful PR firms in the country. Still wanting to help change people's lives, Terrie began the Stay Strong Foundation and also wrote books. The range of her accomplishments definitely makes her an inspiration as part of my Embracing SUCCESS series.
Terrie's latest book, Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting (Scribner, 2008), has touched many people with its candid look at the effect of racism on black people and her own depression from it. There's a foreword by Mary J. Blige and testimonials from an impressive assortment of people, including Danny Glover, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Patti LaBelle. I admit it's a tough read. Terrie speaks the truth! But as the saying goes, the truth can set you free. If you're black, you'll gain a lot of understanding about your own behavior and the people around you. Other races may also recognize parallels in themselves, and gain an understanding about why some black people act in unhealthy ways. It can also make everyone more aware of how they treat folks who are different and the effects it can have.
When I taught school, kids expressed the pain they felt from comments and treatment that they'd experienced because of their race. As a white person, it's hard to imagine what it's like to have so many stereotypes about people who share the color of your skin used against you. This book is eye opening. EVERYONE, no matter what your color or experience, should read this book to understand the often underlying or subtle racism that still exists. It can help foster more consideration and compassion toward people of color. Anyone who cares about people should read Terrie's book! I'm posting this interview in honor of Black History Month. Here's what Terrie had to say:
How would you define Black Pain? The dark emotion and space in all of us. There's a particle set of circumstances that affect people of color who experience pain and depression. It's a learned silence from the days of slavery. You'd be beaten, tortured, raped, sold from your loved ones, but you had to act like you weren't hurting. I think that's been passed on for generations.
Why does it lead to depression? Because we're not meant to hold our stuff in–the childhood wounds, scars, trauma and day to day slights we experience. We're not meant to hold in anger, disappointment and rage. When these things are not dealt with, it causes depression.
Why do you think the pain and depression is different in the Black community from other groups? We were raised that you can't speak about it or there will be repercussions. It's also perceived as a sign of weakness or being crazy. We're a very faith based people so we think to do anything other than to pray to God is a betrayal.
What inspired you to write your book? I went through the fire and came out on the other side. I heard the voice of God saying that I had to share my story. I used to wonder about people who'd say that God told them to do something, but I clearly heard a voice one day that said I had to share my story. It's been an amazing blessing, liberating and has helped me understand what I'm here on this earth to do. Every experience in my life brought me to exactly this point. I am a social worker and one who manages depression so I know what that feels like and am more compassionate. I know how to market and promote a message and I had access to the media and celebrities. So I tied it all together to make an in your face, up close and personal message for people to understand that they're not alone.
What would you tell someone who doesn't understand how someone with your level of success could be depressed? Pain is a human condition. It has nothing to do with what I have. We come into this world shaped by the pain we have inherited from our parents, no matter how loving they are. We inherit their gifts and talents too. It gets passed on from generation to generation.
When was your toughest time? What happened? Four years ago when I had a breakdown. It was 9 months of hell. But when you come out of it on the other side and you're still standing, you've got to share. I'm still very much a work in progress.
How did you keep your pain hidden from the people closest to you? I lied. That's what we do. Three of the hardest word in the English language to answer honestly are, "How are you?" when you're the one other people look to.
Why is it so important to share your message with children? I think we set our kids up to fail when we don't tell them how we're really doing. They learn that the way to move through life is to lie and wear a mask. They're smart and don't miss anything. So when we lie and say we're fine but we're not, they know differently. We ought to share our frailty, our flaws, our challenges with them, and let them know how we pick ourselves up. We need to share with them the tools that we use to steady ourselves when we go though the fire. I tell them the hell I went through when I had my breakdown because they can see. Then, they start to open up in amazing ways because they're unaccustomed to adults speaking the truth to them.
How successful do you feel now? I have to work on the happy part but I feel successful in that I am amazed that my life has come full circle. That everything I did along the way prepared me for such a time as this.
How would you define courage? Feeling the fear and doing it anyway because the fear is there but you just have to move through it. If you don't get up every day with butterflies in your stomach and they don't feel good, if means you're going through life being pathetic or flat-lining. Whenever you have those butterflies it means that you're about to challenge
yourself and take your game to the next level.
What helps you move through it? I try to remember that there are people who go through a whole lifetime and they don't have butterflies in their stomach. I know the butterflies mean I'm where I'm supposed to be.
What do you want white people and other races to understand about Black Pain? Be aware. When I flag a cab, especially at night, if I have a hat on I take it off because I have short hair. I have long earrings on so I cannot be mistaken for a brother. I try to have NY Times in my hand so I can flag the cab so the driver will see that there's one with a NY Times, so maybe she's okay. I start smiling literally when I get a glimpse of an available cab, so they will see there's a friendly one. Maybe that one's okay. I do that whenever I take a cab.
When black men walk too close to a white woman or get on the elevator, nine times out of ten she's gonna clutch her bag closer to her arm or in some way convey fear. So it's not easy to be a person of color on the planet. If you're a big, tall black man and have a deep voice, you start to speak softer and smile extra, so you're not so intimidating. You stand differently. One brother said he wears suits on weekends when he travels. A dark skinned black man tends to be more intimidating to others. So they smile extra to be perceived as nicer, better, like saying, "I'm not gonna hurt you." All of those things, just because they become second nature to you, doesn't mean they roll off your back. I try to be an aware person and know what other cultures experience. We really are all the same. We want and need the same thing.
What makes you grateful? I'm gratified because I get letters from people telling me that they're relieved to see they're not alone. More people have to read it to get to know who we are and why we kill each other every day in the streets. Black people understand for the first time understanding why they do what they do. I've heard from people in prisons who say, "I finally understand why I'm here. Now I know I've been depressed for as long as I can remember." I thank God every day to have been able to do that. It's not an easy book to read. The tears flow.
What's your best advice for someone who's scared to move out of their current way of life or to try something new? You'll be pathetic or flatline for the rest of your life if you don't. Thank God that you're scared, because it means that right before you is something that's going to take your game to the next level. So go for it. Listen to your inner voice and treat everyone the same. You never know in what disguise God is coming to you.
Check out Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting. It was recently released in paperback.
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This is post 27 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to attract all that you need. I do it every day! Read the posts in this series to see how.
I once spoke at a Christian conference. Afterwards, a lovely woman who I'll refer to as Laura, introduced herself and preceded to tell me about all the troubles she was going through. She assured me that she was a good Christian—her father was a minister—and she prayed for help each day. In fact, she had everyone in her church praying for her. Laura asked if I'd pray for her too. I reassured her that I would.
She was stunned when I then asked—"What are you doing for yourself besides praying?"
Laura stammered but no real answer came out. She looked confused. "Weren't prayers enough?" she asked. No. When you have true faith, you don't need to ask everyone you know to pray for you. By running to everyone she could find to help her pray, Laura put out a message that she was afraid her own requests wouldn't be answered. That expresses doubt, which says you have a lack of faith in getting what you want.
Prayers without faith in the prayers won't manifest good results!
There's NOTHING wrong with praying. All prayers are good. But Laura's fear was obvious. She didn't expect to get them answered, so she turned to everyone, including me, to do it for her. Praying, like doing affirmations, can be empty words if your thoughts deny them. Once I was convinced that my prayers get answered when my thoughts are clear and faithful, I didn't need others to pray for my. I know my intentions go directly to the source.
In order for prayers to work, you must also show that you're serious about getting what you're praying for.
It's important to have concrete actions and thoughts that show you expect to get what you say you want. Laura was so busy counting on others to pray for her that she broke her own connection with God. I asked her if she talked to God or put herself in His hands with trust as she prayed. She looked sheepish. This woman, brought up in the church by a father who was a minister, was so scared and desperate to improve what was going wrong that she attracted more of the negatives. Laura asked me what she should do.
I suggested she work on developing her relationship with God and do what she could to put out positive thoughts about getting what she needed as she prayed.
Laura needed to talk to God while she prayed, share how scared she was, and, ask for guidance in getting past the fear. It's critical to focus on what you're looking forward to having when your troubles got resolved, instead of focusing on making problems go away. The latter keeps your thought on your problems, and the Law of Attraction brings more problems. The more Laura depended on others to pray for her to improve her life, the less she got because she wasn't trusting that it would happen.
The more she thought about all that was wrong with her life and talked to others about it, the more Laura put those troubles out to the Universe and the more the Law of Attraction kept them coming!
I told her about a minister I once heard speak who changed my life. He was a crusty old Irishman and his delivery was crisp and bluntly when he said, "You can pray a lot, many times a day and before you go to bed. You can ask others to pray with you. But if that's all you do, you know what the result will be? You'll be the best darn praying person. And, you'll always be praying for what you won't get if you don't get up and let your actions and thoughts show that you expect to get it."
Praying is like the condiments in a meal. Strong positive intentions cook the main course of what you want.
You need both. Ever since I heard the minister talk I've redefined what it means to pray. For me, it doesn't mean saying what I want and sitting back waiting to get it. If you're not ready for a healthy romantic relationship, prayers alone won't bring you one. But loving yourself more and becoming whole on your own shows God that you want the kind of romantic partner who is strong and loving too. If you want to be rich, watch for opportunities that can help you make more money and do the work to achieve it. If you want to move to a better living space, start looking for one as you ask God to show you the perfect space.
You can begin by asking to be shown the best opportunities for getting what you pray for, and take advantage of them to the best of your ability!
God often speaks to us by presenting situations. Watch for these! It may not be obvious that God is speaking to you when something unexpected happens or you see a good possibility for making money or you keep bumping into a neighbor who might be someone to date or the many other signs that God is communicating. Help the Law of Attraction to work with you to attract positive goodies by letting your actions reflect an effort to get it.
* Show yourself love and you'll have the best chance of meeting more loving people.
* Improve your skills, try every opportunity, be the best employee you can be, and enjoy the money it can bring.
* Call realtors and search websites and papers for an apartment and the right one will come.
* Say thanks in advance for what you intend to get to show that you believe your getting it is a given.
* Get enough sleep and make eating healthy and exercise a priority to attract feeling better.
The next day, Laura greeted me with a smile. She had her first real talk with God and felt more hopeful than she had in ages. She was now actively praying by talking to God and felt it working. And she thought of some things she could do to help herself!
Give your prayers more punch with your intentional thoughts and actions and they'll begin to work for you! And, always remember to say thank you when they're answered, whether it's when you see the results or like me, have strong enough faith that they're coming so I know they're answered well before. ?As you connect to your source, the prayers will become more real to you, and the good old Law of Attraction with work with, instead of against what you want.
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As pressure for a perfect body motivates very poor decisions, more people, especially women, are suffering from eating disorders. It breaks my heart to see perfectly healthy individuals abuse their bodies in the name of losing weight. This in turn, abuses their souls, and their self-image.
It's hard to love yourself when you hate your body!
Tamara Hey is a singer/songwriter who I've known and like for years. I've always enjoyed her straightforward lyrics. Sometimes biting, sometimes funny, often both, they tell the truth. Still, I was surprised to hear her perform Round Peg, a song on her latest album. It begins:
Round Peg doesn't fit in with all of us skinny chicks
But what I like most about her is that she doesn't give a shit
I wanna be her and let myself go
I bet she never stuck a finger down her throat
Could this lovely woman suffer from bulimia? I listened intently. I heard the emotions as she continued:
Round Peg couldn't care less, buttering both sides of the bread
Letting the crumbs fall to her chest, brushing them off and starting again
I wanna be her — taking big bites
I'll bet she never let a mirror cut her down to size
The chorus—ROUND PEG, ROUND PEG—ROUND PEG, ROUND PEG—wove around the lyrics that gave such a clear feel of what it feels like to have a poor body image, poor enough to purge your food after eating. My heart went out as she sang:
Oh Peg, your chocolate birthday cake
I pushed the pieces around my plate
That sweet 16 left such a bitter taste
Round Peg, I cut you out — with everything else good — ounce by ounce
I shouldn't have done that, but I did, and now I'm down to bones and skin
I wanna be you — laughing out loud
But I'm bitter in the center and no fun to be around
I asked Tamara if this was her truth. Yes, she'd suffered from bulimia. So I had to interview her about it! Tamara Hey is a singer/songwriter with 3 independently-released CDs, including "Miserably Happy" (November 2008). She "brings lighthearted optimism to a singer/songwriter genre often skewed toward the brooding and depressive", blend[ing] humor, sarcasm, wit, and introspection … with tons of pop vibes. Here's what Tamara shared:
Why do you think you became bulimic? I can't remember exactly what age I was, but I'm sure I was younger than 16; probably 14 or 15 years old. It was a "phase" that was short lived, but the state-of-mind doesn't seem to wear off.
What motivated you to write Round Peg? I didn't sit down with the intention of writing about bulimia. I had written down the potential title, "Round Peg" after hearing someone passing by say it mistakenly. The expression is really "Square Peg in a Round Hole". She had it backward. I liked it and it was a challenge to come up with something the song could be about. When I realized what I was going to write, I was a little afraid. I had never considered writing a song about bulimia.
What does Round Peg represent? To me, Round Peg represents the kind of person the singer loathes and even fears yet wishes she could be. The singer is afraid to be fat. So afraid that she resorts to bulimia, hanging around with a clique of skinny girls who aren't good friends. She befriends them because she knows that under their influence she will never become fat. She also envies Peg for her sense of self, freedom to enjoy life and just be who she is.
Was there a girl or type of girl that you saw as a Round Peg and envied? I can't recall anyone specific. But even today, I admire women who are not afraid to wear clothes that show off what they've got physically. They seem comfortable with their shape no matter what it is, whereas, I think I never really will.
When you looked at the birthday cake, what did you see? In the lyric, the birthday cake was actually at Peg's Sweet Sixteen. Fun foods like birthday cake, present me with a choice. If I decide to eat that birthday cake, then I have to face the challenge of not feeling bad about it; accepting that I ate it and move on.
How did you feel when you looked at yourself in the mirror? I almost never felt good. In fact, even today I purposely don't have mirrors in my house – except for the bathroom cabinet mirror. I'm afraid that I'll be tormented if I have mirrors in the house.
What made you so bitter? I used the term "bitter" in the lyric as a metaphor: an empty, acidic stomach and a bitter personality.
How did you finally turn it around? I woke up feeling really sick; dizzy and shaky. I knew I had to stop. And I did.
How do you feel now when you perform Round Peg? I feel really good. At first I was nervous about revealing something so personal. But now I enjoy it. As a song, it's really fun to sing and the arrangement is just the right combination of strange/circus and a little mean. Also, more than one woman has come up to me after a show to tell me that they really like the song. I think maybe they are telling me that they can relate.
How do you feel now about yourself? I feel pretty good, but unfortunately, I will always have the insecure, bulimic teenager inside. I'm very weight conscious. I don't starve, but I'm careful.
What did you learn? I learned that making myself sick is not the solution to any problem.
What does the title of your album, Miserably Happy, mean? To me, "Miserably Happy" means not allowing myself to be totally happy about a something. But with that song, I'm trying to show that I'm aware of this tendency and I can laugh about it. Many people have told me that "Miserably Happy" describes me very well.
What advice would you give to someone who tells you they're bulimic, or who seems obsessed with losing weight? Being thinner probably won't solve what's really troubling you. Figure out what's really going on. Seek help from someone you can trust to be objective about your situation—a doctor, a therapist, maybe a friend.
Bulimia or anorexia or fad diets, etc.
are NOT healthy under any circumstances! While I do advocated being fit, losing weight in ways that harm your body isn't getting fit. I just got a product I heard about called Slim Shots. It's an all natural small cup with a blend of palm and oat oils that works in the ileum to trigger a feeling of fullness. I had one today and actually felt no urge to munch all day. That's unusual! But it was only one time. I'm going to keep using them and I'll report later on about whether they work well regularly.
Taming your appetite naturally so you can eat less is a MUCH healthier way to lose weight. No matter how you feel about your body, learn from Tamara's painful lessons. Respect your body enough to lose or maintain weight in healthy ways. Check out Tamara and her music at http://www.tamarahey.com/
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"Lock them up and throw away the key." I've heard that line too often, and it has been an overused refrain in the American system of corrections. Two recent articles would have us think differently, but it means we have to look beyond our own borders (and think outside the box!) to gain some new perspective.
Take a look here for a look at what's happening in Europe.
And what happens if you have a jail with no one to put in it? Look what Sweden is doing here.
I find these somewhat ironic because the jail in my town--bright spanking new--but whole sections of it aren't used. They can't afford to staff it, and a number of officers have been laid off due to budget cuts. The city doesn't even house its own people in there. Instead, it contracts with smaller and cheaper jails in the neighboring cities.
And then there's the brand new jail built on the Native American reservation that looks nice on the outside, but they don't have the funds to run it. What are people thinking??
"Oh, you're so lucky to bring Jesus in to those poor people." I am lucky but I don't haul Jesus around in a suitcase. I get to see what God has been up to in the last few hours. Then I get to tell the stories.
18 November 2013
01 November 2013
The Saints Among Us
On the eighth floor of the jail Tuesday, I met with a man. His wife had died last Saturday. He needed to talk. He was feeling bad about being in jail and away from her.
Early in October, Dave and Olga came from Nanaimo in Canada to Seattle, on their way to Fort Lauderdale in Florida, to take a cruise in the Caribbean. It was a last fling. Olga had ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. She was getting sicker. In fact, she had no control of her hands and arms. One last trip, they thought, then they'd face her final months together.
But in Seattle, Dave was arrested. Turned out there was a warrant for him out of Alabama, for breaking his probation almost thirty years ago. Dave went to jail. He was going to have to wait to see if Alabama wanted him.
Olga went to a local hospital. She wasn't sick; she was managing the ALS, but without Dave, she didn't have a caretaker and she did need care.
"All I know," Dave said, "is that she got home. Someone escorted her to Victoria. Then she died at home with a friend with her." He wanted to find out who had taken his wife to Canada. He knew it was someone from a local parish, but that was all.
I said I'd try to find out. With the name of the hospital, I started making calls. The chaplain didn't answer, so I left a message.
A call to a woman who works in the diocesan Pastoral Care office pinned down the name of the parish close to the hospital. I called St. Francis of Assisi parish. I laughed when a long-time friend answered the phone. She works as the receptionist. I explained I was looking for someone from their parish who might have helped a woman get back to Canada.
She didn't even let me finish my question."That's Frances!" Frances was over in the church with a funeral, but she'd call back.
When Frances called, she told me this:
At the hospital, a social worker spent two days on the phone, trying to figure out how to get Olga back home to Canada. Finally, Olga said, "I'm a Catholic. Maybe someone at a parish could help." The social worker called the hospital chaplain. The hospital chaplain called the local parish, St. Francis of Assisi.
At the parish, Frances the Pastoral Care Minister answered the phone, and late on a Wednesday afternoon, arrangements were made. Frances met Olga at the hospital at 6am on Thursday and they boarded a cabulance with Olga's luggage and wheelchair. To the waterfront and the Victoria Clipper they went. The cab driver helped haul the luggage to the ticket counter. The boat personnel said, "Don't worry. Whatever you need, we'll do it." Frances and Olga got on the boat and went to Victoria. Along the way, Olga talked about the people in her life. "She was so upbeat about everything!" Frances said.
Once in Victoria, a friend met Olga at dockside, collected the luggage and the wheelchair and set off for Nanaimo. Before she said goodbye, Olga gave Frances one hundred dollars and insisted she have a good time in Victoria. Frances took a bus to see the Butchart Gardens and had tea at the Empress Hotel, something she had long wanted to do. She was back on the boat at 6pm and returned to Seattle. That was October 10th.
Frances had been wondering how Olga was, had told the story to a number of people. She'd explained that Olga couldn't pick up a phone and call, and she certainly couldn't write a letter. But Saturday, Frances thought she really should write Olga a letter.
She wanted to know, "How is Olga? Do you know?"
"She died at home last Saturday," I said.
"Well, I guess she got my letter then!"
Olga died at home two weeks after she'd returned from the interrupted trip. She never got her cruise, but she was with a friend and she died quickly. She and Dave had talked about the slow death that can be part of ALS.
That hundred dollars that Olga gave Frances? Frances brought it home. She knew a better place for the money. St. Francis of Assisi parish has a sister parish in El Salvador that is rebuilding its church. Nine thousand dollars is a lot of money in that country. Olga's hundred dollars will go a long way and her name will be among those who helped in the effort.
Late in the afternoon, I talked with the hospital chaplain who told me about the efforts of the social worker at the hospital. "Can I tell them what happened with Olga? So often we don't know what happens to people when they leave our care, and everyone remembers her."
On Wednesday, I went to talk with Dave again, to tell him I'd found the woman who had helped his wife. He met me with a big smile. "Have you heard the news?" I hadn't.
The Canadian consulate had been working on his case. He was being released in a few hours and headed back to Canada. He'll have to come back for a hearing later in November, but he was heading home in time for Olga's funeral.
I told him about Frances and the boat trip and the $100 and the parish in El Salvador.
Dave chuckled at the loops of connection: his Confirmation name is Francis. The woman who helped his wife was named Frances and worked at St. Francis of Assisi parish. Just how big a two by four does one need?
Dave and Frances will be in touch.
Olga's name will be included among the names of the dead this weekend at the Seattle parish.
Now you know the story. Isn't it good to know there are saints among us?
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Prof. Yariv Yogev and his colleagues investigated the outcomes for mothers of 45 or more and their children.
"I'd been an attending physician in a delivery ward to a woman over 60 who had twins. I wanted to know if it's ethical to treat older women like this - I wanted to know if it's safe for both mother and child," Yogev said.
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Beauty in all forms is such a big part of our lives. The beauty that is inside and out must be cultivated and despite my desire to become a minimalist, I do find the need to use some beauty products. Some are DIY but most are store-bought and I refuse to feel bad for it. It is what it is and I will accept it.
With that being said I did have a mixture of DIY and store-bought favorites this year. I'm kinda surprised by one and utterly relieved by another. This will be my first end of the year "favorites" on beauty products but I see how important it is to showcase what has really worked for me or what I fell in love with over the past 12 months.
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The suggested changes - as reported so far - are, in my view, timid, based on flawed assumptions, costly and probably unworkable. They are fiddling at the edges instead of addressing a major issue with major - and immediate - changes.
The policy of care in the community I wholeheartedly support and actively implement. My argument is with the widely held assumption that almost everyone who suffers from serious mental illness is curable, or at least containable, by medication or therapy, or both. The consequence has become a universal expectation of provision in the community, which is explicit in the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
This demonstrates the supremacy of the civil liberties lobby, which has strong support in the Royal College of Psychiatrists, some of the charitable support groups, notably Mind, and in the social work profession. This lobby defeated, via the House of Commons Health Select Committee, moves to introduce a Community Supervision Order, which would have allowed the enforced administering of medication when a patient failed to comply with treatment. This would not have been the complete answer, but it would have been an extra useful tool in a pitifully small range of options. I hope Mrs Bottomley will override the select committee's recommendations.
It is regularly said that there are not sufficient resources in the community. Whichever party is in power, there will never be sufficient resources. Mental illness has always been unfashionable for the NHS and councils to spend money on - it will always lose out to more glamorous or high-profile spending demands. But government funding can be effective - if conditions are placed on where and how it is spent.
The suggestion to provide a 'key worker' and a care plan to patients on discharge from hospital sounds attractive. Yet it has no chance of working. The patient's compliance with their plan, which should include being able to make choices about treatment, lifestyle, etc, relies upon the assumption of their continuing mental competence. Add to this the difficulty that lay people have in challenging the decisions of professionals and you have the present unholy mess that is community care for the mentally ill.
I want to propose a different way of delivering community care to the seriously mentally ill. It requires politicians of all parties to accept publicly that there are people with such severe disorders they must never live outside an institution. Into that category fall the criminally insane. You might think there is no argument about this, and yet just two weeks ago we were forcibly reminded that a multiple rapist released, not from prison, but from a top security hospital, had raped and murdered again.
Policy should reflect the reasonable public expectation that we can protect potential future victims, and a recognition that some disorders are incurable and untreatable. The numbers of criminally insane are small, relatively predictable and are not difficult to define. The institutions already exist.
My proposals also relate, however, to two other groups, which are more problematic. They include those whose behaviour can be violent and likely to inflict harm, unpredictably and at random, such as in recent noteworthy cases. Closely allied are sufferers whose behaviour harms themselves, such as Ben Silcock.
I would not argue with present arrangements and plans for community living for the remainder, whose illnesses are containable and who pose no threat to others. Into the latter category would be former patients released from long-stay institutions in supported hostels or small group units and others who need temporary support - medical and social - on their way back to independent living.
The closure programme of old long-
stay mental hospitals must continue. Many are crumbling, isolated, expensive to maintain, and offend all modern principles and expectations for institutional care. No one, least of all the Department of Health, knows how many institutional beds are needed. That is why it is essential to have systematic and public monitoring of psychiatric referrals by local authorities.
Currently, patients are in psychiatric wards either by voluntary admission or by virtue of orders under sections 2 or 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983. When the order ceases, a care plan covering future treatment, together with housing and other requirements, has to be agreed and implemented. Housing is usually provided in council flats. This often creates problems of noise and antisocial behaviour for neighbours and loneliness and social isolation for the person placed there. In some cases, obviously mentally ill people are placed without reference to social services colleagues.
Homelessness is a major problem for those people who cannot observe the normal expectations of community living. We should learn from the experience of 20 years of community care in the United States, where homeless mentally ill people on the streets is commonly cited as proof of the policy's failure.
The current Mental Illness Specific Grant arrangements are due to end in March 1995. I hope these are replaced by a different specific grant available only on a combined application by a local authority and district health authority for jointly commissioned or jointly purchased care arrangements.
Psychiatric patients do not, generally, need hi-tech, medically intensive and expensive hospital beds. Nor could the state ever afford the kind of intensive 'tracking' or 'minding' of individuals by guardians that reports suggest may be proposed today. Guardianship of adults, under the present Mental Health Act 1983, has three basic elements: first, a power of the guardian to direct where the person should live; second, a power to direct treatment; and third, an obligation to be accessible to the guardian.
The system has not been widely used, for good reasons. It requires a continuing recognition of the guardian's authority and a will to co-operate. Unless those drafting additional powers come up with a simple and swift sanction of enforced treatment this regime will remain a toothless tiger. It is 'sectioning' by another name.
It is cheaper, and more humane, to keep people in smaller community- based provision. Such establishments could combine on the same or adjoining sites hospital-type care, some of it secure, hostels, day hospital and day centre provision.
I would like to see these provided and run by the private sector and community trusts - with places purchased by either local or health authorities, GP fundholders or families. The increasingly blurred division between health and social care should be recognised and ended now.
I think this is the best quality, most personalised care in the community we can offer many people with severe mental illness. It requires difficult decisions about loss of choice, and legally sanctioned coercion. These decisions have not been made. The solutions civil servants have come up with are the emperor's new clothes. Those who carry the professional and political responsibility of implementing them should say so.
The writer is chairman of the Social Services Committee, London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Three Commonwealth Games-related sites figure in the list of places breeding mosquitoes, prompting the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to slap fines of respective Games sites' officials during the last 24 hours.
As many as 1,335 challans were issued by the civic body since Monday even as it continued with precautionary measures to check the spread of dengue.
Municipal Health Officer Dr NK Yadav said: "Among other places, mosquitoes were breeding at a labour canteen in the Commonwealth Games village complex, at a stadium construction site in Khelgaon and the Khanna Tennis Stadium at RK Puram."
"We have issued challans to the officials concerned for letting water stagnate and making it a breeding ground for dengue-causing mosquitoes," Yadav added.
Mayor Dr Kanwar Sain said when he had visited the Games Village site a few days ago, officials had been fined for allowing water to stagnate in the area.
"MCD District Health Officer for the area and his team regularly visit the place and take necessary action," Sain added.
The MCD is taking all precautions to check the spread of vector-borne diseases and keeping a tab on the number of confirmed cases, he said.
As many as 42 new dengue cases reported on Tuesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 627 this season, Health Officer Dr N.K. Yadav said.
On Monday, Health Minister Kiran Walia had instructed all private hospitals to furnish regular reports of dengue patients failing in which strict prosecutions as per provision will be made.


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M a r t y n o v a
M a r t y n o v a
London, United Kingdom
About M a r t y n o v a
Born in Kazakhstan (Aktau) in 1980, Yuliya attended classical art school graduating at age of 15 and was noted as one of the most promising scholars with works admitted to UNESCO collection. Destined for the Moscow Art Academy after graduation, she applied for scholarship with a prestigious law school in Kazakh capital instead and was trained as a litigator. After working in oil & gas industry for some time, Yuliya settled in London in 2007. Disagreed with the corporate career being the rightful path and feeling strong creative pull, she became a full time artist in Apr 2015 and since then continuously gaining attention of curators, art advisors and returned art collectors. Artistic ideology found with uncertain trajectory of a paper plane, a fragile vessel connecting space, time and spiritual continuum. Philosophical message enveloped in Yuliya's elegant creations varies from painting to painting providing for less obvious emotional narrative. Visualising chaotic or directed trajectories with paper planes formations the artists emphasises positive values of adaptive human behaviour. Following metaphorical use of a winged geometrical shapes as faceless portraits, she admires individual ability to overcome challenges as a group or facing unfamiliar highs in solitude. Her Toy Story series is an attempt to look away from complex sentiments and down to seemingly simple problems seen through the eyes of a child. Yuliya practice combines subtle watercolour techniques and colour intense acrylic blends creating vibrant or, to the contrast, delicate surfaces sealed with oil paints with anti-fading mediums. Amongst her collectors are the CEO of MTA Travel (Australia), Head of Global Safety Policy of Facebook (Washington), board member of City Group Capital Markets (HK), Board member of Disney Channel (LA), board member of Glista (Berlin), board member of Curzon Wealth Management (London), head of Google department (Dublin) and many more. Two of her artworks featured in Doctor Strange (Marvel) and popular TV series Scandal (from episode 515, artwork adoring Olivia Pope apartment filming set) Sold more than 200 paintings in the first 6 months, she keeps on gaining momentum with international collectors and curators backing her distinct style.
1990-1995 Aktau School of Fine Arts
2010-2011 GDL BPP School of Law
2009-2011 LLM Queen Mary University of London,
1997-2001 LLB, Kazakh State Law Academy
- Isolation has been featured in Doctor Strange, the movie, two artworks acquired by Marvel
- Vogue | Stella is now part of the top rated TV drama SCANDAL shown since 2012. Artwork used for Olivia Pope flat decoration from episode 515 onwards.
- Vortex - used for cover of an Academic Monograph 'Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era ' by London Bloomsbury Publishing House, Apr 2016
- Corporate collections Oliver, Marketing Agency, London (May 2016), Black + White Offices (Feb 2016), Shoreditch, London; Werner Capital LLP (2012-2015), Belgravia, London; Bonas MacFarlane (2013), Battersea, London; Temirbank (2004), Almaty
March - The Other Art Fair, London, UK
Sep - Connected, Solo, Gailer Srudios, Moscow
May - Open studio w/e, Wimbledon London
Dec - Dreamland, Solo, Piccadilly st London
30 Nov - 25 Dec Aubergine Gallery, Wimbledon, London
17 - 20 Nov - 4 paintings at Edinburg Art Fair presented by Galeria De Arte Gaudi, Madrid
31 Oct - 05 Nov - #flyingsolo, solo show, Studio 657 Art Gallery, Fulham, London (pls RSVP via web site, strictly by invitations)
04 Aug - Hoxton Arches Gallery group show with @meettheartistslondon
04 Feb - Whitechapel Gallery, 1st Thursdays with Creative Debuts London
22-25 Jan - Melia White House, Art Room 2016, London
02 Jan - 04 Feb - Hoxton Holborn Hotel Gallery, London with Creative Debuts
15 - 21 Dec - Maze Art Exhibition, OXO tower, London
09-26 Oct - Wells Art Contemporary, Somerset, UK
20 Aug - 20 Sep - Solo, Matthew's Yard Gallery, Croydon


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Select patient aftercare instructions Modify patient aftercare instructions Create patient aftercare instructions
Aftercare instructions Important points to remember What to be concerned about Medications Work status Work restrictions Follow-up Assessment and plan of care Summation Case closed Standard instructions Modifiable instructions Specific instructions
Once physician finishes placing orders, diagnosing, answering history, exam questions next step in workflow is aftercare instructions for patient to take home Problem-focused patient aftercare instructions automatically and electronically generate and indicate care suggestions in real time based on the patient's problem list, which complies with Meaningful Use Core Objective 11
Aftercare instructions inform the patient as to what they can do, activities patient should limit, what do to for self care after patient leaves facility They also inform patient how to self treat, take prescribed medications and when to return to medical facility Workers' compensation patients will specify whether patient can work without restrictions, with restrictions specified by physician, or incapable of working at this time MedTrak will send emails, faxes to employers with works status of employee's condition. MedTrak also has a real time employer portal for employers to review their employee's work related health care information over the internet
Important Points to Remember-instructions about what patient should/shouldn't do to self treat injury/illness What to be Concerned About-instructions to inform patient about what to do if condition worsens Medications-instructions about whether or not patient should continue/stop medications that they were taking previously Work Status-physician's recommendation about whether patient should/shouldn't return to work or if there are work-related restrictions
Work Restrictions-instructions on what patient is encourage to do, should limit doing, not do while at work Assessment and Plan of Care-physician's assessment of patient's condition and detailed plan for treatment Summation-physician's opinion of patient's present condition Case Closed-physician uses this section to close workers' compensation cases
Standard-wording for instruction is from MedTrak library of instructions Modifiable-a specific word/words in instruction, marked with brackets( ) on either side can be changed Specific-physician types in (or uses voice recognition) to create instructions that are specific to patient Place cursor in Instructions field on Visit Documentation screen (Figure 18-1) Click Instructions button to access first screen of patient instructions Do This! Pg. 224 & 225
On Instructions/Important Points to Remember screen, select the following MedTrak standard instructions by clicking the checkboxes: Reduce activity Left pain be the guide Rest and Limit Use ankle Click Submit Selections button again to advance to next screen of instructions. MedTrak moves to second screen since this section is comprised of several screens of instruction choices Do This! Pg. 226
On second Instructions/Important Points to Remember screen-select the following instructions by clicking on checkbox: Ice-Ankle Appliances-Left Ankle Appliance-Wear at all times Appliances-Left Ankle Appliance-Remove to bathe Click Submit Selections button to accept selections Screen refreshes with selected instructions in black (Figure 18-3) Click Submit Selections button again to advance to next screen of instructions MedTrak moves to third screen(Figure 18-4) You do not want to select instructions on this screen so click Submit Selections button again to advance to Instructions/Medications screen Do This! Pg. 228
If patient is not currently taking medications do not select any of the Medications Instructions…if they are look for their current medication and check this (Figure 18-5) If patient is already taking prescription or over-counter medications, instruct the patient as to whether the patient should continue or discontinue taking his/her current medications given the patient's present condition. This is especially important when prescribing any additional medications for the patient Click Submit Selections button to advance to the Instructions/Work Status screen Do This! Pg. 229
On Instructions/Work Status screen select the following instruction by clicking on the checkbox: RETURN TO MODIFIED work duties Click Submit Selections button to accept the selection Work Status screen refreshes with selected instruction in black (Figure 18-6) Click Submit Selections button to advance to Instructions/Work Restrictions screen Do This! Pg. 230
On Instructions/Work Restrictions screen select the following by clicking on checkbox: (Figure 18-7) We Encourage the following- Click specific instruction button to right of instruction Next screen is Specific Instruction screen for Work/Restrictions/We Encourage the following instruction Figure 18-8 Type or use voice recognition software to enter the following instruction: "Limit walking and standing while at work. Try to do sit down work only" Click Submit Instruction button Instructions/Work Restrictions screen returns with specific instruction appearing under the instruction(Figure 18-9) Click Submit Selections button to advance to Instructions/Follow-Up screen Do This! Pg. 232
Instructions/Follow-Up screen select following instructions by clicking the checkbox: Return for next visit- Click specific instruction button to right of instruction Next screen is Specific Instruction screen for Return for next visit/Follow-Up (Figure 18-10) Type or use voice recognition software to enter "Call for another appointment after your orthopedic visit" Click Submit Instruction button-Instructions/Follow-Up screen returns with specific instruction now appearing under instruction(Figure 18- 11) Click Submit Selections button to advance to Instructions/Assessment and Plan of Care Screen Do This! 234
On Instructions/Assessment and Plan of Care screen select the following by clicking checkbox: Additional Comments for Plan-Discussion of treatment options/contingencies: Click Specific Instruction button to right of instruction Next screen is specific instruction screen for Assessment and Plan of Care (Figure 18-12) Type or use voice recognition software to enter "Discussed with Mr. Baker my initial findings of an unspecified internal derangement of left ankle, and the need for him to see an orthopedic surgeon as soon as possible." Click Submit Instruction button-Instructions/Assessment and Plan of Care screen returns with specific instruction appearing under the instruction (Figure 18-13) Click Submit Selections button to advance to Instructions/Summation screen Do This! Pg. 235
Click checkbox for Condition on discharge: in Summation section type "fair" in modifiable instruction field to right of instruction-click Submit Selections button When there is modifiable instruction field to right of instruction brackets on either side of word/group of words designate modifiable part of instruction If more than 10 characters are needed for modification of instruction click specific instruction button to right of instruction Whatever is types in modifiable instruction field or on specific instruction screen replaces word(s) inside brackets Instructions/Summation screen refreshes with word fair under instruction(Figure 18-14) Do This! Pg. 238
After finishing selecting, modifying and creating specific patient aftercare instructions click Submit Selections button again to display Instructions/Overview screen (Figure 18-15) Instructions/Overview screens displayed selected information in black If you review and decide to modify instruction in a section click green cross to left of section name to access selection screen for that section of aftercare instructions Click Page Down button to scroll down to see next Instructions/Overview screen(Figure 18-16) Review Instructions/Overview screen click EXIT SCREEN button to return to Visit Documentation screen which displays a message that "Instructions have been marked." (Figure 18-17) Do This! Pg. 238
You will need to print and turn in Mr. Baker's aftercare instructions that you documented in the electronic health record Do This! Pg. 239
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