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My lift for today’s story will be light: My goal is simply to introduce you to Truemed, a company whose mission is to make true medicine—like food, exercise and supplements—affordable. They do this by helping businesses that sell health services and products to qualify for accepting money that people put aside TAX-FREE for health care…Continue reading Making more of your FSA or HSA dollars
This story is about coming alive, not bashing the government. In fact, I worked for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services—at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and later in the Office of Inspector General (OIG)—and found that feds in my orbit seemed driven by what drove me: A deep and sincere…Continue reading Are we truly serious about healing and living long & healthy lives?
Last time, I said that my mother only does as well as I can care for her. It’s a kindness, then, for me as a caregiver—and you, if it applies—to care for myself by saying “no” judiciously. After too long of saying yes too much when caring for my father when he was alive, I…Continue reading I made caregiving miracles by saying no
In preparing to write this story, I listened to Jacqueline du Pré playing Elgar’s cello concerto to find the words to describe how that experience feels. I burst into tears during the first bar. Some of that had to do with the music taking me to a time when my father was alive, but it…Continue reading Our bodies will say no if we don’t
Apparently, my father’s skin was a topic of conversation among his hospice team for how beautiful it was. Nature was certainly on his side but it also helped that I gave him collagen. Collagen is a protein found in skin, bones, connective tissue & elsewhere in the body. Beef tendon is a staple in some…Continue reading Using collagen and chlorophyll for health & treating bedsores