I have always been a little bit of a health food nut, so when a friend started talking to me about the chlorella that she was taking as a daily part of her diet, I was all ears. I am really into anything that is healthy and natural.

By the time we finished our conversation, I was totally sold on it. I went to talk to someone about getting it for myself and that is when I learned about the health benefits of taking spirulina. From the sounds of it, it was an amazing product and I knew I had to try it for myself.

I did not stop taking my barley grass, but these products too, became a part of my daily nutritional intake. Some people in my family think that I am weird, but I can honestly say that I am much healthier than every single one of them.

When my boyfriend and I had been dating for several months, he finally took me home to meet his family. As I was browsing at all of the photos on the wall, I was really surprised to see that he was wearing glasses in most of the pictures. When I asked him about it, he informed me that he had undergone laser eye surgery.

I was impressed that he had been so brave, as I thought it was something I would have never considered, but he told me that it was pretty harmless. He explained all of the most common laser surgery side effects and told me that he had not experienced any.

By the end of the weekend, I was completely convinced that it was something that I should do and I decided to go ahead with the LASIK Wavefront procedure. I was equally impressed with the results and I am so glad that I did it. It was all thanks to some old pictures on the wall at my future in-laws house.

As I have aged, I have found that my mind isn’t quite what it used to be.  Where I used to have no difficulty remembering events in my life, I found myself forgetting what I did on a regular basis.  I was to the point where I was getting concerned, so I decided to talk to my doctor about it.

The doctor ran a series of tests to see if I had the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, but thankfully the results were negative.  After doing a bit of blood work, it turned out that the levels of toxins in my blood stream were rather high and I asked what I could do about it.

He didn’t have any prescription that he wanted to give me, but he did offer some advice from his own experience.  About five years ago, he was having the same problems and it turned out that he found a way to get rid of the toxins in his body, and improve his memory.

I was referred to a website that sold Zeolite, a detoxifying solution that was simple to use.  I ordered some and tried it out - after just four weeks, I can tell that my memory is much better than it used to be.  In fact, I would have to say it is almost better.

When my husband was in his car accident, he was hurt very badly. I knew that he had a long road of healing ahead of him and that it was going to be difficult for him to have to learn to walk all over again. He was extremely active and I knew that it was disappointing for him to have to lie there completely idle.

I vowed that I was going to do whatever it took to get him back on his feet again. I took a few classes to learn some massage therapy techniques and I read everything that I could find on the type of paralysis that he had endured.

He was in the hospital for many months going through rehabilitation and physical therapy. When he came home, I spent hours rubbing his legs and getting the circulation going. He is now walking again and he says that he could have never done it without my love and support. I told him that is what I was here for.

My young son was just recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. I was very scared about this and I was not sure how I was going to deal with the fact that there was something wrong with my perfect little baby. It felt as though I was in a fog when I went to pick up his sleep apnea machine. It was like it wasn’t real to me.

I felt as though I had so much to learn and so little time to learn it all.  I certainly did not know what a CPAP machine is but I knew that I was going to have to learn and I was going to have to take care of my son to the best of my abilities.

My husband came with me when I went to pick up the CPAP supply but I was so glad to have them with me because he was definitely the sanest of the two of us.  I know we have a long road ahead of us but we are dealing with it and I know in the end everything will be all right.

When I was going to medical school I was working closely with a surgeon who specialized in carpal tunnel surgery. It was a field that I was interested in going into and it was suggested that I spend some time with him during his surgeries to find out if that was really what I wanted to do.

During the same time, I was given an assignment to find out how many cases there were of carpal tunnel in Orange County. The number that I came up with was quite astounding, but it did not surprise the surgeon at all. In fact, he told me that there were many more cases than what I had come up with because some people would never seek medical advice on the condition.

I really enjoyed my time working with him and he became one of my greatest mentors. I did end up specializing in the field and I did my internship with him. I still see him quite often and I seek out his advice when I am looking for a second opinion.

My wife went to the store today for a special trip.  There was a sale at a number of stores in one of the local malls, so she decided to go check it out. 

When she came home I asked her what she bought.  She had been gone for a number of hours, so I thought that she would have bag after bag of merchandise that she bought at the store.

As it turns out, she had just bought one thing: a sound machine.  I thought it would be some type of boom box, but as it turns out, it wasn’t what I expected.

She bought it to allow her to sleep while I was snoring.  I guess she had done some research online to see if she could find a solution to our sleeping arrangement and that is what she had found.

Tonight, we will have to put it to the test and see how it works out - I will know if it works if she is still in bed with me when we wake up in the morning.

A few years after the birth of our second child, my husband and I decided that it was time to have the third and final member of our perfect family. We were pregnant shortly after deciding it was time and I was savoring the pregnancy, as I knew it would be the last. At eight weeks, I lost the baby and was devastated.

I was actually a little bit confused, as I had never had any trouble carrying either one of my first two. We waited about six months and then decided to try again. We were pregnant that very same week, but we lost that baby as well. I decided it was time to go and talk to my OB/GYN about recurrent miscarriage.

After the second miscarriage, I was very sick and I was worried that something had gone very wrong. It took two months to get in to see the doctor and when I the day finally came, he wanted to do an ultrasound to find out why I was so ill. Surprise above all surprises, there was a baby on the screen. I was pregnant; about seven weeks.

I was ecstatic, but also concerned after the last two miscarriages. I took it easy and we just welcomed out little girl, Alexandra, into the family. She is a perfect addition.

I am a Canadian citizen that will be spending the next few months of my life attending a college in the States.  This brought about a lot of changes in a lot of things including my health coverage.  Being a resident of Saskatchewan, I have never known anything except for free coverage.

I knew, that my free health care coverage would be no good while I was attending night classes at college.  For this reason, my parents urged me to look into getting short term insurance.  They wanted to make sure that I would be able to seek medical attention should anything unselect. 

I am not an overly cautious person but agreed that my health coverage was my responsibility and I needed to do something to take care of it.  I sent away for forms as I wanted to fill them out and have the coverage available as soon as I traveled down to my college.

The unit that I have been transferred to is definitely a different experience for me. You see, I used to work on the pediatric ward, but due to a staff shortage, I have been transfered to the department that works on patients with Edema.

If you are not familiar with Edema, it is a condition that cannot be cured and has such symptoms as swollen legs, puffy eyelids and weight gain. These patients require different care than what I am used to, but I do enjoy the challenge.

We have been trying out some new natural Edema treatments and we have been having some success with them. We have been using both Capisette and other natural weight loss supplements to help our patients on the road to recovery.

Though there is no cure, we have found that our current treatment methods help our patients to have a better quality of living than those who do not use it.  Hopefully there will be a cure someday, but in the meantime, we will do whatever we can for our patients - that is what we are here for.