The Versatile Blogger Award

I've received  The Versatile Blogger Award from Shirley Tay 

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Shirley ,thank you for including me in your list! I am so pleased and honored. It is with great pride I gladly accept. Thanks for all your varied posts. You are so talented!


According to the rules, You are required to:

1. Thank the person who loved you enough to bestow this gift.

2. Share seven things about yourself.

3. Bestow this honor onto 10 newly discovered or followed bloggers–in no particular order–who are fantastic in some way.

4. Drop by and let your ten new friends know you admire them."

So here it is:

Thanks so much, Shirley, for bestowing the award & for having me in mind!



7 Things About Myself:

1. I love meeting new people

2. I love to play tennis, golf and ballroom dance.

3. I love to travel

4. My friends and family are very important to me.

5. I believe that one can accomplish goals with the right attitude, belief, determination & desire.

6. I love playing my Wii

7. I love learning new things, sharing ideas. I love a challenge



10 Newly Discovered Blogs: I will add 5 more later!

TLCSilverJewerly http://tlcsilverjewelry.blogspot.com/


Shey_strides. http://shey-strides.blogspot.com/

Wandering Pam http://wanderingpam.blogspot.com/

Footsteps http://heatherdugan.com/blognew/


The daily blonde. http://thedailyblonde.com/

SKIN CARE-WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS?

Do you expect to see fine-line and wrinkle reduction? A uniformity of skin tone? How about better skin elasticity? Perhaps you want to cure a medical condition? Think about your previous skin care history, are you able to use just about anything? Do you have problems? Have you ever had an allergy to skin care?


I would like to invite you to take a look in a mirror, now sometimes it is helpful to draw an oval on a piece of paper, mark where the eyes, nose and mouth are. Mark on the paper just which lines and wrinkles you want to diminish! This will give you a reference for improvement. So often people think the product isn’t working when it is they just don’t have a good frame of reference.

We know that 80% of the skin damage we see in the mirror is from exposure to the sun. People want to look younger and they want products that will deliver results. Enfuselle products deliver results as demonstrated by rigorous clinical testing and many testimonials.


In one simple system all the viatamins your skin craves. In 28 days clinical
Studies confirmed: 665% increase in skin firmness, 421% reduction in the appearance of wrinkles, 88% reduction in the appearance of fine lines. With just 3 minutes of Enfuselle Nutrition Therapy morning and night, in 28 short days you’ll see your skin age 10 years in reverse..Guaranteed.
Click here to view a movie on reverseing the signs of aging with Natural Skin Care System!

TIPS ON CHOOSING ANTI-AGING SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

Do you want to wrinkle before your time? You can't stop time; you can keep your face and body from reflecting your age! Don't wait too long, now is the time to consider that you are getting older and start using the best anti-aging products so you can fight the signs of aging now. People make the mistake of waiting until they have fine lines and wrinkles, which could have been avoided with proper skin care prevention and products.

Avoid products that are fourmjulated with: Parabens, SLS/SLES, propylene glycol, animal products or by products, mineral oils or petrolatum, FD & C or D & C dyes, Phthalates, 1,4-dioxane. These could increase your cancer risk or avoid simply because they are toxic.

The best skin care for anti-aging the ingredients are safe, non-oallergenic and are all natural, in clinical trials, they have been shown to reduce wrinkles, improve the skins moisture content and increase firmness.

The same materials that help keep you healthy on the inside also play a huge role in how you look on the outside. So it only makes sense that your skin care comes from not a cosmetic company, but from a natural nutrition company!

MY OXYGEN TANK TEAM

I wanted to say "thank you" to a terrific medical team at Mt.View Wound Care, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Your fun,compassionate care made a seemingly scary experience manageable.




My painful knee is no longer a problem. I feel years younger from all the oxygen.
Amazing how the skin came together after such a large opening.
You do perform miracles.





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My Experience with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Over the past several years it has become the Standard for treating several debilitating conditions. The patient is placed in a pressurized chamber while breathing 100% oxygen. Through a series of daily treatments, the building of new blood vessels into damaged tissue is enhanced. Daily treatments usually take two hours. The patients watch DVD’s, TV, listen to music or sleep during their daily treatments. The condition for my treatment was incision that popped open in the middle and was not healing. They called it a flap wound. The first 3 or 4 times I was rather paniky as I believe I may be claustrophobic, the time passed ever so slow. Knowing you are trapped for 2 hours does funny things to your mind and body. It gets easier each time, as I am learning to relax and watch a movie and move around as much as possible knowing the technician is watching should I really have a problem. I have found it has already helped me with a knee problem that was bothering me before the cancer surgery. I hope that I am getting younger with all the oxygen!
HBOT is effective for traumatic brain injury, strokes of all types, cerebral palsy, autism, near drowning, near hanging, birth injury, toxic brain injury, ischemic/anoxic/hypoxic brain injury and encephalopathy, coma, persistent vegetative state (the apallic state), genetic disorders such as mitochondrial disease, multiple sclerosis, lyme disease, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), acute and chronic tinnitus or hearing loss or vertigo, chronic fatigue, prevention of brain injury from cardiac surgery, fibromyalgia, sports injuries, immune system disorders, oral infections and non-healing sockets, chronic brain decompression illness, and others.
The more typically situations include: crush injury, osteoradionecrosis and soft tissue radionecrosis (brain, rectum, bladder, etc.), gangrene, compromised flaps and grafts, carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness, air embolism, the flesh-eating bacteria, burns, acute bone infections in immunocompromised patients, brain abscess, cyanide poisoning, plastic surgery failures, non-healing wounds, diabetic ulcers, osteomyelits (chronic refractory bone infection), limb salvage, peripheral vascular disease, arterial insufficiency ulcers, venous stasis ulcers that have failed standard therapy, vasculitis ulcers, severe acute blood loss, and acute traumatic ischemia (damage to blood vessels).
How does it work?


The patient breaths 100% oxygen while the entire body is totally immersed in 100%oxygen. Increased pressure combined with the increase in oxygen content dissolves oxygen into the blood and all other body tissues and fluid at up to 20 times the normal concentration-high enough to sustain life with no blood at all and even with the heart stopped.
Hyperbaric treatments are painless, but the patient may experience a sensation of “fullness” in the ears, similar to driving down a mountain, flying, or scuba diving.
Once a patient is in the chamber and the door closed, the oxygen begins to circulate. This starts a gradual increase in pressure-called compression. There may be some slight warmth, but that is temporary.. Near the end of the treatment, the technician will gradually decrease pressure that was added at the beginning. This is decompression, which generally lasts 10-15 minutes. There may be a slight “popping “sensation in the ears adjustment. It is usually easier to equalize ear pressure during decompression than during the compression phase.
Preparations before HBO Therapy.

Some medications are not compatible with HBO. Important to notify HBO technician should symptoms of cold,flu etc. occurs. Nicotine is not compatible with HBO. The patient will have to stop the use. Cosmetics, hair spray, nail polish, perfume, or shaving lotion containing petroleum, alcohol or oil base are not allowed while in the HBO chamber. Patients are provided with 100 % cotton gowns to wear during treatment.


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ANTI-AGING SKIN CARE

Many people want to escape the signs of aging, and are turning to anti-aging shin care as a remedy to help smooth out the lines, get rid of the wrinkles and change the pigmentation of their skin to appear more youthful. In order to avoid the appearance of aging some turn to surgery while others turn to natural anti-aging care products. The same nutrients that help keep you healthy on the inside also play a huge role in how you look on the outside. In the Shaklee skin care system you have all the vitamins your skin craves. Shaklee's Nutrition Therapy Skin Care system in 28 days confirmed in clinical studies-increase in skin firmness, reduction in appearance of wrinkles, and reduction in appearance of fine lines. With just 3 minutes of Enfuselle Nutrition Therapy morning and night in 28 days you will see your skin age 10 years in reverse-guaranteed! So be ahead of your time! Have age-defying skin and look younger with a 3 product proven anti-aging treatment system. An eye treatment visibly diminishes lines, wrinkles, and puffiness. Time repair A.M. and P.M treatments meet your skins needs with damage fighting antioxidants and unique natural humectants. Enfuselle's overnight treatment recaptures youthful firmness and luminosity with high levels of antioxidant vitamins.

The Shaklee difference: Nutrient based, clinically proven, 7 patents, dermatologist tested, always hypoallergenic, never animal tested, ph balanced.

Products are formulated without: Parabens, SLS/SLES, Propylene glycol, mineral oils & petrolatum,FD&C or D& C dyes, Phthalates, 1,4-Dioxane.

Taking care of your skin can take years off your appearance while helping you avoid conditions like skin cancer. Billions of dollars are spent each year on anti-aging skin care products-do they really work! Yes, they do if you choose a company that you trust! Like Shaklee who guarantee's and has clinical studies to prove the products do what they say they will do.

Aging is not what we do it is what we don't do! So start early in your life and prevent premature aging by taking care of your health and your skin.


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MALIGNANT MELANOMA - MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

What is Melanoma? It is a type of skin cancer. It can be life threatening disease! It can grow like a weed over growing the garden. Melanoma begins on the surface of the skin where it is easy to see and treat. If given time it can grow down into the skin, ultimately reaching the blood and lymphatic vessels, spreading through the body, causing life threatening illness. Curable if detected early, but can be fatal if allowed to progress and spread. No one knows the exact causes of melanoma. Certain risk factors, like having many moles, increases the risk of developing melanoma. Fair skin that burns or freckles easily. People who had more than one of the common skin cancers. A family history of melanoma, weakened immune system, severe, blistering sunburns. Experts believe that much of the worldwide increase in melanoma is related to an increase in the amount of time people spend in the sun.
I had a pulled muscle in my knee from tennis and over exercising, so I was icing and rubbing pain medicine to my leg when I felt a mole size bump on the back of my leg. I could not see it so I asked a neighbor if she thought I should have it checked! (She was a retired nurse) “Yes, I think it looks questionable!” That day I took my mother to her doctor’s appointment and on leaving I asked the doctor did he think I should have my mole checked. He insisted I see the dermatologist immediately. I got the next available appointment and he immediately numbed my leg and cut out a portion to send to the lab. The hole was approximately inch. My neighbor told me the mole was about the size of a pencil eraser and half. It was also irregular in size and the color was pink to lavender. The biopsy was sent out of town to a lab, I was very confident that I had no reason to worry. Four days later I was called into the doctor’s office to discuss the results. Boy was the news a bomb shell! I tested positive for cancer! The next step was to decide on a surgeon to do the surgery. I choose to use a local doctor who had experience in the area that I needed. Surgery was immediately scheduled and the process of having lab work, and complete physical exam began.
Surgery to remove a melanoma removes the entire melanoma along with a border of normal –appearing skin. The width of the border of normal skin removed depend s on the depth of the melanoma. Additional tissue, usually skin and fat is also removed from under the melanoma. My excision was 17x8x10 mm. I also had lymph nodes removed in the groin area. It was interesting to observe the dye going through my leg in the Nuclear Medicine Lab. It had a big camera attached like a MRI machine where the technician mapped the lymph glands for the surgeon. After that I was sent to the Ultra Sound room with the Cardiologist mapped the glands with what he called fish hooks that he pushed into about 4 of the glands so the surgeon would be able to find. This part is called Sentinel Node surgery. I am now ready for the surgery! Approximately 2 hours later I am in the recovering room! My recovery is good, I have trouble sitting, sleeping and walking, but my stitches are healing very quickly. Thank goodness I am a quick healer and I have been doubling up on my Shaklee Vivix and Nutriferon. I have to have my sister in law, who had a surprise breast cancer treatment last month, come 2x a day and change my bandages. We both feel very blessed to have been diagnosed with negative results. She has to do Radiation for 6 weeks (every day). Fortunately I do not need any more treatment. I just need complete inspections with the dermatologist couple times a year.

What you can do to reduce your risks!
• Use sunscreen- SPF 15 or higher
• Stay out of the sun between 10 a.m – 4 p.m ( Find Shade)
• Cover up ..protect yourself from the sun
• Wear a hat that covers your ears and neck
• Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.
• Avoid indoor tanning
• DON’T SMOKE

CHECK YOURSELF! CHECK YOURSELF OFTEN! See your dermatologist if concerned! Early detection is so important! I feel blessed.

My leg after cancer and gland removal


REMEMBER, ANY MOLE (PIGMENTED SPOT OR GROWTH) THAT UNDERGOES A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN SIZE, SHAPE, OR COLOR—OR THAT CAUSES SYMPTOMS OF ITCHING OR BLEEDING— SHOULD BE SUSPECTED OF BEING A MELANOMA.