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MEDICINE & HEALTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHISPERS OF WARNING ................................................................42
THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS,
WHY REFORM IS NEEDED NOW ...................................................44
THE SECRET TO PAIN FREE
PREGNANCY & HEALTHIER KIDS...................................................46
BEYOND RESOLUTIONS...
BE HEALTHIER–FOR LIFE ..................................................................48
RESOLVE TO IMPROVE YOUR BODY IMAGE IN 2007.............49
LASIK WITHOUT A BLADE:
ADVANCED SURFACE ABLATION (ASA) ......................................50
SPINAL DECOMPRESSION THERAPY .........................................52
THE NEW INJECTABLE FACELIFT ...................................................54
HAPPY NEW YOU .................................................................................56
IT’S NOT GREY’S ANATOMY BUT: ..................................................58
THE TRUTH ABOUT DIABETES........................................................59
ASK THE NUTRITIONIST .....................................................................61
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
DISABILITY STATISTICS ......................................................................62
EAT, DRINK AND BE HEALTHY..........................................................84
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Michelle and James Civettine, proud parents of baby girl
Ranae born on December 5, at Coral Spring Medical Center.
JANUARY 2007
WHISPERS OF WARNING
By Fran Mercede
The whispers of a woman…
even a whisper can hurt you!
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Whispers although quiet and sometimes unassuming could contain the
most powerful messages you will ever hear. A whisper is defined in
Webster’s dictionary in the following way, “to speak so as to be heard only
by one near at hand”. This is a story that begins with a whisper. It is the
story of a woman whose mission could possibly “Save Your Life”. Let me
describe her to you. She may sound familiar. She may be someone you
know. She may be your mother or your wife or your aunt or your friend.
She may be your daughter. She may even be you.
She is a young 49 year old very active woman in great shape. She
exercised three times a week for over two years. She gets all her yearly
female exams – Pap smears, mammograms and everything her gynecologist
has suggested as preventative medicine to keep her healthy. Does anything
about this sound familiar?
Slowly this woman began not quite feeling herself. She was more
tired than usual and found herself napping during the day. The whispers
of warning were beginning. She began to have dark circles under
her eyes, bouts of constipation and sometimes diarrhea. Her energy level
became almost non-existent as the whispers of warning continued. But these
symptoms could be caused by any number of things. She thought that maybe
she should take a break from going to the gym. She thought all of these
symptoms were just a part of menopause. However, she thought wrong.The
whisper was about to turn into a shout.
March 2nd, 2006 is a day she will never forget. She was doubled over in
pain, a pain so debilitating that she could not even stand up. Even then she
explained it away. She thought it was simply a bad case of gas. The pain was
just below her naval extending horizontally across her abdomen. Finally, by
the following morning the pain remained on her right side and she was very
nauseous. She thought it was her appendix and in her mind that was a likely
possibility. She went to the emergency room where they did a battery of
tests, blood work, CT scan and X-rays.The blood work came back normal
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