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ou took that fantastic job offer in another state. Mom and dad were healthy and fine. As time passed, you were promoted and became successful. Dad passed away and mom is not doing well on her own. She?s reached an age where daily assistance may be necessary and you?re a 1,000 miles away. How do you manage this situation without picking up and moving your family or your mother? If this scenario sounds familiar, remote care giving might be the answer.

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It’s human nature to hang onto two basic hopes – the hope of overcoming illness and the hope of delaying death. However, in many cases the reality is that your loved one faces a steady medical decline, a life-threatening illness or impending death.

Hope is like the vase that contains your sweet-smelling colorful dreams. Dreams, like flowers, change over the seasons of life and the stages of caregiving. Yet, no matter how desperate the situation, there is always room for hope and dreams. It is the magical salve for the suffering of caregivers and their loved ones.

Hope is the optimistic belief that you can expect a better tomorrow.

Sometimes that better tomorrow happens as a result of something that changes in the outside world – such as a new drug or unexpected help. Sometimes the better tomorrow arrives because you see things from a new perspective. Hopes and dreams become the guiding light for the tough choices that you and your loved ones face.

Here are 7 tips for hanging onto hope:

1. Give a voice to your secret longings, wishes and dreams.

If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for? Maybe it’s turning back the sands of time and taking away the car keys from your father instead of sitting at his hospital bedside where he is recovering from the car accident he caused. Maybe it’s imagining that you’ll turn on the news and learn of a new miracle cure for the cancer that’s taking over your mother’s body or for the dementia that’s erasing your grandmother’s memories. Hope might be something simple like a good night’s sleep for you and your loved one. Say it out loud, “We could use a good night’s sleep.”

2. Define the reality.

In the course of taking care of tens of thousands of patients, I’ve seen miracles happen. However, most people experience likely events. Grasp an understanding of your current reality based on what’s most likely to happen naturally.

When you define the most likely outcome, it helps you decide where to place your hopes. For example, a friend of mine who is a family doctor told me of a conversation between him and a loving mother whose 6-year-old child had a relapse of leukemia after a bone marrow transplant. There was an experimental treatment offered halfway across the country. The mother wanted to know where to take her child: to a new hospital across the country for lots of “pokeys” as her son called them, or Disneyland to enjoy the final days of his life. Does she hope for a cure, or for the fullest remaining days of her child’s life?

3. Recognize your loved one’s hopes may be different than your own.

The mother of the 6-year-old made the medical choices for her son. What if the person with the leukemia is your father, who is competent to make his own medical choices? Maybe you cannot bear the thought of losing him and hope that a new treatment will cure him. Maybe your father shares that perspective. However, what if he considers experimental treatment with certain discomfort and an uncertain benefit and decides he would rather live out his days enjoying his grandchildren?

You may find it difficult to support him. You do not want to burden your loved onea with your disappointment that he has placed hope in a different place than you would if you were in his shoes. That’s when you turn to a trusted friend and say, “I wish Dad would make a different choice. I want him to fight. I’m sad and angry that he’s chosen death.”

4. Honor your loved one’s hopes.

As a caregiver, it’s important to understand that your loved one is the patient. It’s his or her body and life. As much as you think you know what the best choice is, your job is to help your loved ones realize their hopes.

5. Mourn the loss of the old dream.

Gretta said, “Mom had always hoped to live all of her days in her home filled with the memories of Dad and small children and happy holidays…and not so happy holidays. It just wasn’t safe any more. We moved her to a terrific retirement community that has everything she wants, including a beautiful garden. Still, she’s sad because it’s not what she had always imagined.”

You too could have a dream of a healthy and independent loved one that’s hard to let go of. The loss of a dream can be as painful as the loss of a loved one. Mourning the loss of a dream brings healing.

6. Create a new dream.

You can still have hopes and dreams! They’re just different. Maybe the hope for cure is replaced with the hope for days or hours or moments free of pain. Maybe it’s the dream that your fragmented family will come together and heal old wounds around the deathbed.

State your dreams as attaining something you want rather than avoiding something you don’t want. As medical conditions change, it’s important that you and your loved one revisit the dream. If you’re disappointed about the course of events, ask, “Is this the loss of a dream, or a hope I can fulfill?”

7. Focus on your loved one.

Always remember, caregiving is first and foremost about supporting the person you love. Yes, you as a caregiver have hopes and dreams. Maybe the heart of caregiving is the willingness to fulfill the hopes and dreams – the vase filled with brilliant blooms – of those for whom you care – whether or not you hold the same vision.

Follow these tips, and you will be sure to hold onto your hopes and dreams. Remember, no matter how desperate the situation, there is still hope for the dream. The dream will change as the condition of your loved one change. Just like there’s always a flower to put in a vase?there’s always hope.

Dr. Vicki is a board-certified surgeon who left the operating room to help families take the most direct path from illness to optimal health. Her book, “The Personal Health Journal“, will help you understand and direct your loved ones health story. Empower yourself with the tips and tools that will help you partner with their doctor more effectively & save your loved ones life at: http://www.drvicki.org/drvicki-store-health-journal.html


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It’s human nature to hang onto two basic hopes – the hope of overcoming illness and the hope of delaying death. However, in many cases the reality is that your loved one faces a steady medical decline, a life-threatening illness or impending death.

Hope is like the vase that contains your sweet-smelling colorful dreams. Dreams, like flowers, change over the seasons of life and the stages of caregiving. Yet, no matter how desperate the situation, there is always room for hope and dreams. It is the magical salve for the suffering of caregivers and their loved ones.

Hope is the optimistic belief that you can expect a better tomorrow.

Sometimes that better tomorrow happens as a result of something that changes in the outside world – such as a new drug or unexpected help. Sometimes the better tomorrow arrives because you see things from a new perspective. Hopes and dreams become the guiding light for the tough choices that you and your loved ones face.

Here are 7 tips for hanging onto hope:

1. Give a voice to your secret longings, wishes and dreams.

If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for? Maybe it’s turning back the sands of time and taking away the car keys from your father instead of sitting at his hospital bedside where he is recovering from the car accident he caused. Maybe it’s imagining that you’ll turn on the news and learn of a new miracle cure for the cancer that’s taking over your mother’s body or for the dementia that’s erasing your grandmother’s memories. Hope might be something simple like a good night’s sleep for you and your loved one. Say it out loud, “We could use a good night’s sleep.”

2. Define the reality.

In the course of taking care of tens of thousands of patients, I’ve seen miracles happen. However, most people experience likely events. Grasp an understanding of your current reality based on what’s most likely to happen naturally.

When you define the most likely outcome, it helps you decide where to place your hopes. For example, a friend of mine who is a family doctor told me of a conversation between him and a loving mother whose 6-year-old child had a relapse of leukemia after a bone marrow transplant. There was an experimental treatment offered halfway across the country. The mother wanted to know where to take her child: to a new hospital across the country for lots of “pokeys” as her son called them, or Disneyland to enjoy the final days of his life. Does she hope for a cure, or for the fullest remaining days of her child’s life?

3. Recognize your loved one’s hopes may be different than your own.

The mother of the 6-year-old made the medical choices for her son. What if the person with the leukemia is your father, who is competent to make his own medical choices? Maybe you cannot bear the thought of losing him and hope that a new treatment will cure him. Maybe your father shares that perspective. However, what if he considers experimental treatment with certain discomfort and an uncertain benefit and decides he would rather live out his days enjoying his grandchildren?

You may find it difficult to support him. You do not want to burden your loved onea with your disappointment that he has placed hope in a different place than you would if you were in his shoes. That’s when you turn to a trusted friend and say, “I wish Dad would make a different choice. I want him to fight. I’m sad and angry that he’s chosen death.”

4. Honor your loved one’s hopes.

As a caregiver, it’s important to understand that your loved one is the patient. It’s his or her body and life. As much as you think you know what the best choice is, your job is to help your loved ones realize their hopes.

5. Mourn the loss of the old dream.

Gretta said, “Mom had always hoped to live all of her days in her home filled with the memories of Dad and small children and happy holidays…and not so happy holidays. It just wasn’t safe any more. We moved her to a terrific retirement community that has everything she wants, including a beautiful garden. Still, she’s sad because it’s not what she had always imagined.”

You too could have a dream of a healthy and independent loved one that’s hard to let go of. The loss of a dream can be as painful as the loss of a loved one. Mourning the loss of a dream brings healing.

6. Create a new dream.

You can still have hopes and dreams! They’re just different. Maybe the hope for cure is replaced with the hope for days or hours or moments free of pain. Maybe it’s the dream that your fragmented family will come together and heal old wounds around the deathbed.

State your dreams as attaining something you want rather than avoiding something you don’t want. As medical conditions change, it’s important that you and your loved one revisit the dream. If you’re disappointed about the course of events, ask, “Is this the loss of a dream, or a hope I can fulfill?”

7. Focus on your loved one.

Always remember, caregiving is first and foremost about supporting the person you love. Yes, you as a caregiver have hopes and dreams. Maybe the heart of caregiving is the willingness to fulfill the hopes and dreams – the vase filled with brilliant blooms – of those for whom you care – whether or not you hold the same vision.

Follow these tips, and you will be sure to hold onto your hopes and dreams. Remember, no matter how desperate the situation, there is still hope for the dream. The dream will change as the condition of your loved one change. Just like there’s always a flower to put in a vase?there’s always hope.

Dr. Vicki is a board-certified surgeon who left the operating room to help families take the most direct path from illness to optimal health. Her book, “The Personal Health Journal“, will help you understand and direct your loved ones health story. Empower yourself with the tips and tools that will help you partner with their doctor more effectively & save your loved ones life at: http://www.drvicki.org/drvicki-store-health-journal.html


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Signs Your Loved One May Need Elder Care Services

Whether it is a spouse, a parent, or even a friend, there are signs that perhaps your loved one needs elder care services.

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Finding a Reliable In Home Caregiver for a Senior Loved One

Giving care to seniors is a fact of life for many children of elderly parents. In cities with very large senior citizen populations, such as Miami and Pittsburgh, many adult children find themselves in the position of having to be a senior caregiver. This is especially true in a city like Pittsburgh, where families often stay together and adult children live in the same city, and often the same neighborhood as their parents. Tending to an aging parent in Pittsburgh is a difficult job.

In many cases, a senior caregiver must provide care for a senior friend or family on top of holding down a full time job and providing for and taking care of their own family. For instance, an adult daughter must often times work 40 hours per week and then at night take care of the kids and put a meal on the table in addition to caring for elderly parents battling serious medical conditions.

Providing care for the elderly is not a job for everyone. Often, when children find themselves in the unenviable position of having to provide for the medical care of parents, they will turn to in home care. The children can find senior caregivers in Pittsburgh to come into the home and provide the necessary medical attention and care that their elderly parents require.

Arranging for senior in home care can be a daunting task. In a city like Pittsburgh, there are many places to look. Local hospitals, nursing associations, and medical schools, and home care agencies are all ideal places to look for a senior caregiver or caregivers. Many people or organizations would be happy to provide a helping hand in arranging for senior home care. Try looking up the number of a local nursing facility or hospital and ask if they can recommend the names of some reliable Pittsburgh senior home caregivers .

Contrary to what many people may think, many seniors do not like to or want to leave their home in order to receive the medical care they require. In many cities, certainly in a city such as Pittsburgh, many seniors have been in their homes for years or decades. The last thing they want to do is pack up to spend weeks at a rehabilitation facility or go to spend the rest of their lives in a nursing home. By getting someone to come into their homes and help out, children of elderly parents are able to help their parents stay in their homes and still make sure they can receive the medical care they need. This also has the advantage of providing the elderly parent with a measure of independence and control. The caregivers will be able to come into the home and provide assistance in a setting that is comfortable and familiar to the senior patient.

When looking for a senior caregiver in Pittsburgh, it is always important to do a background check and ask for references of the caregiver. By asking a few simple questions and making a couple of phone calls, a child is able to make sure that the safety and security of their parent is assured. Senior caregivers in Pittsburgh will be able to monitor the health of the cities large senior population and ensure their continued medical wellbeing.

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Choosing a nursing home is an important decision, and it is vital to ensure that the facility you select will provide the highest quality of care for your loved one. There are three main steps you can take to find the nursing home that offers the services, environment, and lifestyle options that best suit your loved one’s needs and preferences. Planning ahead, taking the time to analyze your options, and carefully researching several facilities before making a decision will help to ensure that the nursing home you choose will help your loved one maintain their health, happiness, and dignity. Review the steps listed below as you begin this critical decision making process.

Step 1: Find nursing home facilities in your area.

Ask people you trust, like your doctor, family members, friends, neighbors, and clergy if they have had positive experience with a particular nursing home. Keep a list of the names of these facilities and look up contact information for each using the phone book or internet. Call your Area Agency on Aging (AoA). This telephone number should be listed in your local telephone directory or you can find it online by visiting www.aoa.gov. The local AoA can provide information about nursing homes in your area. Call the Medicare Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116 for information about nursing homes in your area.

Step 2: Find out how nursing homes compare in quality.

Nursing homes are certified to make sure they meet certain Federal health and safety requirements. To find out how nursing homes compare in quality in your area, look at www.medicare.gov on the web. Select “Nursing Home Compare.? You can compare the State inspection reports of the nursing homes in your area and look at other information, like resident characteristics and staffing levels. Ask friends and other trusted community members if they are or were satisfied with the quality of care. Call the local office of consumer affairs for your state. Ask if they have information on the quality of nursing homes. Look in the blue pages of your telephone book for their telephone number. Call your state’s health department. Ask if they have information on the quality of nursing homes. This phone number will also be listed in the blue pages of your phone book.

Step 3: Visit the nursing homes you are interested in.

Before you make a decision, visit the nursing homes you are interested in. This will give you the chance to see the residents, staff, and facility. It also allows you to talk with nursing home staff, with the people who live and get care at the nursing home and their family members. Be sure to call the nursing home office and make an appointment to tour the nursing home before you visit. Ask about the types of services and activities the nursing home provides for residents. Ask about the cost and fees for care. Find out if there is an extra charge for any special medical needs your loved one may have. Ask to see a copy of the most recent inspection report for the facility. Ask if the deficiencies noted have been corrected. Revisit the nursing home a second time, on a different day and at a different time of the day than when you first visited. Staffing can be different at different times of the day, and on weekends. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Find out if the nursing home is Medicare/Medicaid certified, if there is a waiting list, and what their visiting policies are.

Potential nursing home residents should be involved in the decision-making process if possible. However, cognitive ability, emotional issues, current state of mind, and physical status may limit a senior’s ability be an active part of the nursing home selection process. It is important to be honest, forthright and supportive with your loved one during this time. Don’t forget to keep visiting once your loved one has been admitted in order to ensure that he or she is handling the transition smoothly and that the care is of the quality that you expected.

Liz Ryan is a Writing and Content Specialist for IQ Nursing Homes. Visit IQ Nursing Home’s Nursing Home Resources and review our national nursing home directory to find local nursing homes in your area.

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Quality Care for Elderly Loved One is Available

Many of us will sometime find ourselves dealing with the issue of eldercare. We could be facing the responsibility of managing the care of elder parents, an elderly loved one, spouse or maybe just a friend. The realization of this responsibility can come on us suddenly. Maybe an aging parent has broken a bone, or a spouse has begun to show severe signs of dementia. All these conditions may require some assistance in day to day activity. To relieve yourself of the uncertainty of their welfare, some form of eldercare should be put into play.


These issues are sure to confront many families daily, where an aging mother or father is in need of long term care. There are a number of signs to watch for that will indicate that your aging friend or family member is in need of eldercare. Maybe you are seeing constant and worsening illnesses, serious signs of forgetfulness, inability to feed themselves and inattention to cleanliness.


Time To Seek Professional Help


For some people, the acceptance of eldercare is an easy transition. Possibly this person has an easy going temperament that adjusts with change. Some people have given thought to and prepared mentally for the eventual need to move into a full care environment.


The type of care could vary from a rehab facility just to assist in returning to better health to moving into a full care nursing home. Virtually any area of North America now has a wide variety of nursing homes and government managed homes for the elderly. Conducting some local research will undoubtedly reveal some practical and affordable eldercare solutions. Today, caring for the elderly does not mean that you personally need not be present to effectively care for your loved one.


If your loved one is simply experiencing some minor disability; maybe some at home type medical needs can be satisfied using the endless variety of products on the market today. Manufacturers have developed a multitude of products to assist us with products to monitor health, help us in bathing, sugar and blood pressure monitoring and accessing all areas of the home.


In nearly any city or town in North America you can locate Support Groups for eldercare, where you can meet and discuss your issues and concerns. It will be extremely productive and beneficial to talk with people with practical experience from day to day exposure to the issues.


Discuss your experiences and concerns with them and listen to their advice and suggestions. Learning from others that have been through your situation will be a big step in determining successful solutions for your particular situation.


Changing Times


It seems that older family tradition and many old world cultures believed eldercare was the responsibility of the extended family. In recent years families have become smaller, in many cases living space much more restricted and life expectancy has increased.


All these factors have contributed to a noticeable dependency on outside resources to manage eldercare. Looking around will make it obvious that there are many more commercial homes for the elderly like seniors apartment complexes, old peoples homes or even on occasion charitable institutions.


Eldercare not only means medical care but also includes social care that the family and loved ones provide to the elderly. The satisfaction achieved by all parties of these care solutions would obviously require an element of love and care is demonstrated in their eldercare.


It is vital that your loved is satisfied that your goal is heartfelt care for them and not simply to satisfy a responsibility. That feeling of trust and comfort will go a long way towards successfully managing your eldercare requirements.

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Caregivers – Finding Good Home Care for Your Elderly Loved Ones

Being a primary caregiver takes a lot of time and effort, especially if someone is caring for a person with Alzheimer’s. Caregivers can easily get burned out or suffer health challenges of their own if they don’t get regular breaks. Even if your family is well equipped for caregiving, its important to be familiar with the many home care services that are available today for the elderly. Taking advantage of these services may give you the occasional day off or vacation that you need, without putting undo stress on your family or friends.

Even if you have other siblings that assist you in caring for a loved one, there are times when they are not available or something unexpected comes up. At these times, being familiar with companies or caregivers that specialize in providing home care services for the elderly can be just what you need. Each local area normally has some companies that offer a wide range of living assistance services. Normally, you can find these by using a search engine like Google or Yahoo and searching for the word “caregivers.” However, there are also companies that provide home care services for the elderly throughout the United States. Here are some nationwide, senior care service providers, that you may want to consider.

Visiting Angels

Sometimes you may feel like a nursing home or retirement center is your only option. Visiting Angels specializes in non-medical home care services for the elderly, allowing them to maintain as much independence as possible in familiar surroundings. They have over 300 offices across the country to serve you. Their website is: www.visitingangels.com.

Cargiver Needed

Search by state for caregivers, nurses, and sitters. Nurses are available for pediatric and geriatric care. They offer both non-medical and medical care for the elderly and for children. Both live in and live out caregiving options are available. Their website is: www.caregiverneeded.com.

Right at Home

A national, in home care assistance agency, that provides trained, insured and bonded caregivers for a wide range of elder care services. They can provide home health care from as little as a few hours to 24-hours a day. Services include: caring companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, bathing assistance, respite for family caregivers, and much more. Their website is: www.rightathome.net.

I hope that some of these resources are helpful to you in your role as a caregiver. This is just a few of the many resources that are available for today’s caregivers. Over the years we have been blessed to have family members and close friends that have teamed up with us to care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. However, utilizing other caregiver resources, at times, has afforded us with much needed breaks, while still providing excellent care for our loved one.

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Rich Herman has been providing support for caregivers for over 8 years. He provides caregiver tips and caregiver resources on his website: http://www.caregiver-support.com

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It’s human nature to hang onto two basic hopes – the hope of overcoming illness and the hope of delaying death. However, in many cases the reality is that your loved one faces a steady medical decline, a life-threatening illness or impending death.

Hope is like the vase that contains your sweet-smelling colorful dreams. Dreams, like flowers, change over the seasons of life and the stages of caregiving. Yet, no matter how desperate the situation, there is always room for hope and dreams. It is the magical salve for the suffering of caregivers and their loved ones.

Hope is the optimistic belief that you can expect a better tomorrow.

Sometimes that better tomorrow happens as a result of something that changes in the outside world – such as a new drug or unexpected help. Sometimes the better tomorrow arrives because you see things from a new perspective. Hopes and dreams become the guiding light for the tough choices that you and your loved ones face.

Here are 7 tips for hanging onto hope:

1. Give a voice to your secret longings, wishes and dreams.

If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for? Maybe it’s turning back the sands of time and taking away the car keys from your father instead of sitting at his hospital bedside where he is recovering from the car accident he caused. Maybe it’s imagining that you’ll turn on the news and learn of a new miracle cure for the cancer that’s taking over your mother’s body or for the dementia that’s erasing your grandmother’s memories. Hope might be something simple like a good night’s sleep for you and your loved one. Say it out loud, “We could use a good night’s sleep.”

2. Define the reality.

In the course of taking care of tens of thousands of patients, I’ve seen miracles happen. However, most people experience likely events. Grasp an understanding of your current reality based on what’s most likely to happen naturally.

When you define the most likely outcome, it helps you decide where to place your hopes. For example, a friend of mine who is a family doctor told me of a conversation between him and a loving mother whose 6-year-old child had a relapse of leukemia after a bone marrow transplant. There was an experimental treatment offered halfway across the country. The mother wanted to know where to take her child: to a new hospital across the country for lots of “pokeys” as her son called them, or Disneyland to enjoy the final days of his life. Does she hope for a cure, or for the fullest remaining days of her child’s life?

3. Recognize your loved one’s hopes may be different than your own.

The mother of the 6-year-old made the medical choices for her son. What if the person with the leukemia is your father, who is competent to make his own medical choices? Maybe you cannot bear the thought of losing him and hope that a new treatment will cure him. Maybe your father shares that perspective. However, what if he considers experimental treatment with certain discomfort and an uncertain benefit and decides he would rather live out his days enjoying his grandchildren?

You may find it difficult to support him. You do not want to burden your loved onea with your disappointment that he has placed hope in a different place than you would if you were in his shoes. That’s when you turn to a trusted friend and say, “I wish Dad would make a different choice. I want him to fight. I’m sad and angry that he’s chosen death.”

4. Honor your loved one’s hopes.

As a caregiver, it’s important to understand that your loved one is the patient. It’s his or her body and life. As much as you think you know what the best choice is, your job is to help your loved ones realize their hopes.

5. Mourn the loss of the old dream.

Gretta said, “Mom had always hoped to live all of her days in her home filled with the memories of Dad and small children and happy holidays…and not so happy holidays. It just wasn’t safe any more. We moved her to a terrific retirement community that has everything she wants, including a beautiful garden. Still, she’s sad because it’s not what she had always imagined.”

You too could have a dream of a healthy and independent loved one that’s hard to let go of. The loss of a dream can be as painful as the loss of a loved one. Mourning the loss of a dream brings healing.

6. Create a new dream.

You can still have hopes and dreams! They’re just different. Maybe the hope for cure is replaced with the hope for days or hours or moments free of pain. Maybe it’s the dream that your fragmented family will come together and heal old wounds around the deathbed.

State your dreams as attaining something you want rather than avoiding something you don’t want. As medical conditions change, it’s important that you and your loved one revisit the dream. If you’re disappointed about the course of events, ask, “Is this the loss of a dream, or a hope I can fulfill?”

7. Focus on your loved one.

Always remember, caregiving is first and foremost about supporting the person you love. Yes, you as a caregiver have hopes and dreams. Maybe the heart of caregiving is the willingness to fulfill the hopes and dreams – the vase filled with brilliant blooms – of those for whom you care – whether or not you hold the same vision.

Follow these tips, and you will be sure to hold onto your hopes and dreams. Remember, no matter how desperate the situation, there is still hope for the dream. The dream will change as the condition of your loved one change. Just like there’s always a flower to put in a vase?there’s always hope.

Dr. Vicki is a board-certified surgeon who left the operating room to help families take the most direct path from illness to optimal health. Her book, “The Personal Health Journal“, will help you understand and direct your loved ones health story. Empower yourself with the tips and tools that will help you partner with their doctor more effectively & save your loved ones life at: http://www.drvicki.org/drvicki-store-health-journal.html


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