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In This Issue:
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- Hope
- Health "Choose Your Battles-HRT
Alternatives"
- Humor
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Welcome to my Dec 2004 issue of “Hope,
Health & Humor”
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Hope:
Hey, it’s December already? Where did
the year go? I had plans for 2004…..big plans….do you think
I still have time to lose that 25 lbs., learn a second language
and earn an extra $100,000? Oh, darn. Maybe, next
year?
I don’t know about you all, but every year I
make big plans for my year in January and December is the month
that I feel “the clock ticking”. Okay, so I don’t make ALL
my goals but I do reach a good portion of them.
I learned long ago not to stress about the
“unused” portion of my goal list, because they can be recycled
onto next year’s list, and focus on the wonder and fun of the
month at hand.
I also know that when I make next years list
in January, some of those goals won’t seem as important and it
will be okay to rid myself of a few of them. However, why
not just ENJOY December and all of the FUN it can hold for you and
your family.
I guarantee you that your family will
love you the same, with or without those extra 25 lbs., and who
cares if you have yet learned to Salsa dance and speak Hungarian?
Don’t stress over the “have nots” this year,
but pour joy over the things and people that you have in your
life.
Remember, the holidays are not for showing
off….they are for showing up!
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Health: Choose Your Battles-HRT
Alternatives
Choose your battles. That is my health
tip for the month. People get surprised that I still visit
doctors. They think due to many years, of my being in the
natural health field and downing lots of herbs and supplements,
that I should be the equivalent to the “Bionic Woman” by now and
never need health care or advice from a doctor. Wrong, I do seek
health advice. We have the best diagnostic tools and
abilities in this country. I take advantage of them, but I
also weigh my options.
Here is an example. I had a
hysterectomy last month. Gasp from the crowd. Yes,
I allowed my vulnerable body to be cut open and the offending
organs to be cut out, and I am proud to say I am no longer the
carrier of a stinky, dysfunctional uterus, among other things.
I used natural products successfully for
years, to reverse damage from endometriosis, fibroid tumors
and alleviate pain, but when the challenge rose again…I decided
this time I had had enough.
There was too much in my life that depended
on me and when I took inventory of what I could control and what I
could not, this was an area of my life I could control.
I won’t say it was easy or that it wasn’t
emotional. It really was an emotional decision, for me.
After all, it is an irreversible decision, not like changing your
hair color. I remembered and took strength from how my
mother handled her hysterectomy twenty- five years before.
She said “So what? They took out the baby factory, but left
me the play pen.” Too much information, Mom, but now I get
it.
My uterus served me well. I have four
beautiful children that would not be here, without it’s’ help, but
it also caused me years of pain, discomfort and really slowed my
game down, if you know what I mean.
I put this off for years and argued my case
for keeping my ovaries and cervix. I lost.
I think my doctor wanted to convince me I
made the right decision, when she read me the lab report after
surgery. “You should see this report! Everything
inside you was damaged.”
“Well, I’ve had four kids. You try
keeping things nice with kids around.”
Then she tries to top herself by telling me
even my cervix was irritated. I thought why the heck was my
cervix irritated? Was the uterus getting on its nerves?
Okay, so the surgery is done. No
turning back but I am NOT taking HRT. I am handling this
naturally. Here is the part where you have to be really
firm in your stance with the medical community, to honor your
right to choose what is best for you.
Conversation with my doctor:
DR: So, I put an estrogen patch on you
after surgery (even though I told her not to). Do you want me to
send you home with a patch or pills?
ME: I don’t want synthetic hormones.
I plan to handle this naturally.
DR: Yeah, but I want you to use
something for you bones. Do you want the patch or pills?
ME: I don’t want synthetic hormones. I
plan to handle this naturally.
DR: Yeah, alright, but I want you to
use something at least for a couple of years. Okay? Do
you want a patch or pills?
ME: I don’t want synthetics, I’ll
handle this naturally.
DR: Oh, okay. Do you want me to
prescribe something plant based?
ME: Yeah, go ahead.
I am still trying to find my new female
“balance”. I use a natural progesterone cream, made from
Wild Yam and supplements of Soy & Black Cohosh. I
also take Calcium and other regular supplements of vitamins &
minerals.
I am sure the pharmacy will get tired of
holding that prescription. She did do a great job of helping me
shed unwanted organs. Thank God for doctors!
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© Copyright Elodia Tate
http://www.elodiatate.com
For more information on natural HRT
(Hormone Replacement Therapy) alternatives visit:
Natural HRT Alternatives
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Humor:
I can’t think of a time when a sense of humor
is needed more than the holidays. Long lines, traffic, weak
bank accounts, strange relatives, weird gifts, weird
relatives…..oh my, this list can go on.
Luckily, there are plenty of funny movies for
the holidays. I LOVE watching holiday comedies, my favorites
are “The Preacher’s Wife” (the remake with Denzel) and
“Home Alone” (the original).
I love it when people walk around and wear
funny sweaters, Santa hats, and reindeer antlers on their heads.
Have FUN this holiday and by the way …what
did Santa say to the reindeer? I don’t know. I don’t speak
reindeer.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Happy
Holidays!!
© Copyright
Elodia Tate, 2004
