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Animals up-close and funny–a blog with Interviews about "This Really Happened" by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health This the latest–others' opinions and effect of my book "This Really Happened". "Aimals up-close and funny", an interview with Prof. H.Winick http://up-close-funnyanima ... Read on »
A 91 y.o. senior, diabetic, can watch television, but cannot read at all. Is that a matter of... by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Questions & Answers in Eye Health This is my mother. She is in Zagreb, Croatia and getting her to a doctor presents a major logistic problem. I would like to know beforehand the logic of her condition, even ... Read on »
"This Really Happened" – just happening/published by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness "This Really Happened" True animal stories; an artist's imaginative, humorous narrative with love and sensitivity toward animals ; an engaging, personal book with ... Read on »
Once Upon Skates Play (puppet play) movie on Youtube by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06FsLcmaJIc   http://web.me.com/vlasta/Site_3/OUS_sticker.html Read on »
"You're fired, Mr. Trump" by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Imagine these words hitting our "industry captain" in some parallel Universe, which evolved beyond the survival of the "craftiest" stage. Here on Earth that struggle creates ... Read on »
New, totally revised TKR review by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The FRST rehab clinic As of this moment, it's been six weeks since my surgery. Recovery and rehabilitation are not painless. Everybody's pain tolerance and therefo ... Read on »
No Need to Apologize, Mr. President by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Recently on Jay Leno’s show much was made of President Obama’s remark about his bowling score qualifying him for the “Special Olympics”. Obviously he was self-deprecating, no ... Read on »
Fireside chat by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness At four I entered the dining room, as I usually do weekdays, to pick up my dinner. The comfortably large room was festive as can be. The dining area tables, decked out in ... Read on »
Yesterday, a miracle. At my des ... by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Yesterday – a miracle. At my desk,glancingsideways at the window, I saw a white heron alight on the lowest branch of a nearby eucalyptus tree. “Alight” is the right word for i ... Read on »
The Web We Weave . . . by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness My panoramic window is my bird's eye view on life. It opens onto a park and an abundance of trees; the creek curving through, now shows its dry walls and the bottom. In i ... Read on »
1. How Intuition Led to Less Invasive TKR by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Few months ago I had a total knee replacement (TKR) by the “less invasive surgery”. The “less invasive” procedure is a break-through trend in different areas of surgery, bes ... Read on »
2. Overview by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Information and its sources Nowadays patients have to inform themselves about every aspect of their condition, starting with the basics – p.e., that arthritis is an inflamma ... Read on »
3. "The Holding Area" by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Finally I am being wheeled through barren, like out of Saramago's* "Blindness" corridors set, bluish neon-lit, zigzagging into the general holding area before the surgery. The ... Read on »
4. After the Surgery - What to expect by Vlasta D. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis The surgery having passed so easily and painlessly, I was expecting (unreasonably) the rest of my recovery time to be just as easy and short. To everybody’s amazement, I was w ... Read on »