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Roseanne Cruz at Beyond Basics in NYC is great. I do not know anyone else. If there is a specific reason why you can not see her try calling her and explaining why it won’t work out and see if she can recommend anyone else. I know they have referred other PT patients else where they might know other lymphedema therapists who would be good for you.
Hatzlacah Rabbah
Refuah SHeleimah!
There are physical therapists that do manual therapy (massage) to drain and reroute the lymph fluid. There also is compression therapy using bandages as well as a pump to drain and stop the buildup of fluid. You can look up Beyond Basics Physical Therapy in NYC directed by Amy Stein. Roseanne Cruz specializes in lymphedema treatment. They do have other international patients so you shoulk be able to work something out with them.
Hatzlacha Rabbah,
Refuah Sheleimah!
I heard that it isn’t a segula and doesn’t have a mikur. The basis of the idea is that the Kallah is not allowed to wear jewlery to the chuppah and she will be conserned that something can happen to it as she is going under the chuppah and it will disturb her thoughts while Davening etc. Therefore, she gives it to a friend whom she trusts will guard it and return it to her after the chuppah. Since her friend allows to go to the chuppah with a clear head Hashem will answer the Tefilah of the friend in teh Zchus of the chessed of allowing the kallah to go to her chuppah with minuchas hanefesh.
good Luck ity is a very common and serious problem. However, many doctors aren’t equiped to deal with it and therefore brush the issue off. Severe and constant pain is debilitating on the body so just not taking pain killers isn’t the answer. Delaying taking the painkillers until the pain is severe isn’t advisable either since they don’t work well once the pain is severe.
You should try to see pain management dr or osteopath who doesn’t just give pain killers. A good physical therapist who does manual therapy and deep tissue massage can help as well. I know Hospital for Special Surgery refers patients with spinal issues to Tracey Vincel.
I know Columbia was doing research on pain killer addictions and had a free program. I don’t know if it is still available.
I work for a medical dr who refers his patients for chiropratic care to Dr Nunziata. He is very good and is an RN. He has a well rounded, integrative treatment approach to care and has been the right Shaliach for many.
Vincent Nunziata, D.C.
6419 Bay Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY11204
Phone: (718) 331-2667
He takes almost all insurance plans including Empire Blue Cross.
Here is a link to his website. http://docvin.com/index.html
Dr. Vincent Nunziata is excellent and has offices in Brooklyn and does house calls as well.
Hatzlacha
Refuah Sheleimah
On the ball: Yes both Cleveland Clinic and Mayo are worlds above any New York hospital. I would have done the same if the Dr in Cleveland Clinic wasn’t available. I didn’t say Mayo isn’t good any more just that Cleveland Clinic for the past few years has been considered the best in the country whereas Mayo used to be the top. It is still high up just not the best. I am happy that you had a good experience. I hope eveything is good now.
I gave you first hand situations and you still seem quite defensive.
No the ER dr agreed it was an emergency but he said the neurology department doesn’t respond unless it is a stroke patient. he paged them for three patients including me numerous times and they never responded.
Health: I never told my neurologist at Columbia about my experience with the spinal tap. I was barely able to string together a coherent sentence when I met him. I just gave him the facts; my symptoms, diagnostice testing I had done, the diagnosis and the medication I was given. So he wasn’t being manipulative he just didn’t like that I wasn’t given proper care. The same with my surgeon at Cornell, his body language spoke volumes when he heard about my previous surgery at Maimonodies. It took a lot of questions and answers and second guessing him until I trusted him.
Based on the care that I have received and in some cases am still recieving at Cornell in many fields (I was never admitted to Columbia or needed their ER B”H)I can’t imagine such things happening there. Twice I got return calls from drs while they were in the OR. I had a dr call me back while he was out of town and leave me a message with his cell number and the times that he will be unavailable due to being inflight yet wanting me to call him any time to discuss my symptoms. I have gotten emails answered on weekends and at all hours of the day and night. I dont’ expect a dr to be at my beck and call 24/7 but having drs who go beyond the call of duty is really nice especially when compared to how my conditions have been dealt with previously. I am made to feel like the doctors and staff are there to treat me and make me better whenever I need them, not that I am bothering them and my symptoms aren’t important. BTW I do limit my after hours contact to emergency situations. Unfortionatly I have had numerous ones and even when it turns out that I panicked I am always reassured that I did the right thing and not to hesitate to contact them again. This is completly the opposite of the attitude I got at Maimonodies.
I think we should just agree to disagree on the level of care patients recieve at Maimonodies and other hospitals. We obviously aren’t going to change each others opinions.
Health: I gave two examples I didn’t mix both up. They were both horrible experiences.
It makes no difference to me if it was medical student or resident if he didn’t know how to perform a spinal tap he shouldn’t have done it without supervision!
I would have preferred not going to the ER except that the neurology department closes and five PM daily and is closed on weekends. They connect you to the neurology floor who connects you the ED! I was using the assistant director of the department and that is how the department is run. there is no coverage after hours.
I needed a neurologist because I had a reaction to a medication given to control my levels of csf. I was instructed by the ED as well as a friend who is a doctor (who btw practices peds and has rights at Maimonodies. She said their adult neurology department is known to be terriable. They did the same thing to her when she was in the ER with what turned out to be guillene bare.) My itnernist was on the phone with me five times after I released and told me to go back the next day (Sunday) and insist on being seen by a neurologist since my condition constitued an emergency and needed the attention of a neurologist asap. He said he knows about the department not being available and them using the ER and then blaming the ER when their patients complain but that I should insist on being seen by a neurologist. The one decent resident we saw apologized numerous times that he couldn’t get in touch with the neurology department and that they don’t answer their pages except for stroke patients. Sorry but that isn’t an average hospital policy.
I’m not sure why you are defensive about Maimonodies and any negative comments.
on the ball: I dont know when you went to Mayo Clinic but they aren’t as great as they used to be according to many ratings. They are still very good but just not up to par to their old standing. Cleveland Clinic is supposed to be a better option at this point.
Health: I did need the spinal tap as well as the drainage. I also should have been flat on back for four hours. One dr I wanted to switch to said he diesn’t treat my condition because he isn’t set up for the spinal taps, he doesn’t have room in his office to keep patients flat for four hours.
My issue isn’t with students learning, I’ve been poked so many times by students trying to find veins to draw blood that my arms and hands werre bruised but I them I didn’t mind. I even volunteered to have med students at a local med school examine my eyes bec I’ve had it done so many times that I know how to focus and not move or blink and my eyes are often dilated so it’s easy to see everything. My issue is with a student performing something for the first time without supervision. Yes I blam Maimonodies because of how horrified my drs at other hospitals were when I said how I was treated. They have different protocols which center around the patient not the med student.
Yes the two hopitals in Flatbush are below average, yet suprisingly they have great nursing/patient care. Maimonodies doesn’t have good medical care or nursing/patient. I was in the ER at Maimonodies twice and told by more than one doctor that there is nothing they can do because I wasn’t having a stroke so they can’t page my dr or any dr or resident in the neurology dept. If that is considered average care then i’ll pass and move straight to above average. When I called my dr at Columbia on a saturday night he called back in minutes and called in a prescription for me. I gave him numbers od pharmacies that I thought were open, he called all four until he found one that was open. He couldn’t understand why I thanked him so much because he was only doing his job.
Well when I was in the ER of Maimonodies for a spinal tap the resident that performed it had no idea what to do. He called his attending twice with questions. Twice, when the attending didn’t hear him calling he left me to ask his question and know how to proceed. I was supposed to be left flat on my back for four hours after having my spinal fluid drained. They told me I can go home after barely an hour. I developed a low grade fever for two days a couple of days after the spinal tap. I called my doctor who was out of the office. The only thing I got fromt eh staff was that my chart will be put on her desk so she’ll see it when she get in. When I called the next day I was told my chart will be moved to her chair but I still could not get medical care from any of the six doctors in the office! When I said something to my internist I was told that is the way the department is run and they don’t allow the er to page them and then blame the er when patients complain. I switched to a dr in the city and he was horrified at the care I got. He let me know if I ever need him after hours he will be available and he will treat me in the ER if needed.
Cornell. The doctors and staff are professional and put the patient’s needs and feelings first. I had the same surgery done twice once in Maimonodies and once in Cornell. There was no comparison. The preop routine was horrible at Maimonodies and they rushed me out of the recovery room before I felt ready. Cornell’s preop routine included more joking with and just being friendly to the patients. They came around every five minutes with blankets fresh out of the warmer asking if anyone wanted one. I was not connected to IV until I was in the OR so the orderly who came to bring me to the OR walked with me and we had a nice friendly conversation. I didn’t even realize that the door he knocked on and told the staff that their patient was there was the OR! In maimonodies I was on a put on a gerney and pushed into a public elevator to go to the OR! Cornell gave pajamas and a surgical gown to wear on top. I felt dressed not like the hospital gown Maimonodies gave me which barely covered. The post op experience at Cornell was compeltly different as well. They weren’t ready to discharge me and kept on sitting at my bedside and joking with me as I got moved from recovery room to recovery room because I was an ambulatory surgical patient and the recovery rooms were closing for the night but they weren’t willing to discharge me and my insurance would pay for me to be admitted. It was a very pleasant experience. When I had to page the doctor on call during the night and he was in the OR the paging center told me he was in the OR but if I don’t hear from him in 20 minutes I should call back. (he called in five minutes and had me on speaker as he was operating)In Maimonodies I was unable to get a doctor or resident on the phone after hours or on weekends.
I think the issue of riding bikes falls under minhag hamokem. It is untzniusdig, meaning it draws attention if the girl(s) stand out because it usyally isn’t done in that community. However if it is a regular occurance that one finds girls/women biking I think it is fine.
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Working for two doctors in Brooklyn I will say Health Plus is your best bet. Many doctors and hospitals don’t accept americhoice and if they do many are dropping them. americhoice is badly managed and is notorious for taking back money from doctors even years after they have paid. It is very diffivult to find specialists that are good and take americhoice. Health plus is better to doctors so more accept it.
If I were you I would first find the drs I want to use and which insurance they accept. as long as your drs accepts the insurance you can’t go werong with it no matter which one it is.
I think some people need a refresher course on Halacha. Many “halachos” that are mentioned are incorrect and can following them can be harmful.
Most Rabbanim say not to sit Shiva today when someone marries out of the religion. It doesn’t have the same implications that it did many years ago. There are many that have returned and or their children became frum becasue of the exposure to frum families.
One is allowed to go into a Mosque, it isn’t a Bais Avodah Zorah. The muslimm religion al pe halacha is a Navi Sheker not Avodah zorah. I would think it dangerous for other reasons for a Yid to go into a Mosque.
One is allowed to go into a known non kosher resturant for various reasons. The problem is if it isn’t known that it is non kosher and someone would see an obviously frum person enter they can think it is Kosher. There also is an issue with eating even kosher food at a non kosher affair because of Seudas Achashvarosh. Sometiems by not going it causes more problems even if it isn’t a monetary one. Each situation needs a Ravs Psak since each situation is different.
Having Goyim/Non frum people at a Simcha is often needed as Darchei Shalom. I personally plan on having a number of these people at my chasunah IYH. They range from coworkers who will be insulted if they aren’t invited and doctors and physical therapists (and staff) without whom I wouldn’t be making any simchos. If they know that I am making a Simcha and they will have to adjust their treatment because I’m now married and they helped me get to where I am and will continue to help me why should I recipricate their devotion to me by inviting them. If this offendse some I hope they won’t come to the wedding because they aren’t there to share in MY simcha becasue my Simcha would be incomplete without these non jewish/frum people there…
Non Jewish/Frum weddings are much more elaborate then Frum ones. They spend so much on the location, decor etc that they have many less people in attendance. If someone complains about a simple (or even not so simple) Bar Mitzvah being so expensive ask them how much they spent on their child’s (or their parents spent on their) sweet sixteen!
If you don’t look at your wife and don’t talk to her than what is the point of marriage? How do you raise children without communicating? I thought a wife is meant to be an Eizer Knegdo but if he doesn’t talk or look her how can she be his his helpmate? Sorry I think you first have to treat your wife like a mentch and then you can worry about adding Chumrus to your relationship. Not talking or looking at your wife is demeaning and a lack of Kovod Habriahs.
I happy I’m not your wife 😉
The first time I used a public library was in HS to take a book I had to do a report on and have since used it for research. The quiet rule makes it a great place for homework! This was before the libraries had computers, I’m not sure I would let my kids use the library unsuperviseed or for non research/school related things. I have been shocked at what I saw people (even frum people) doing and watching on the computer or asking the librarian for generes of books that were compeltly inappropriate. They didn’t even want a specific author just a specific type! I think parents have to be aware of what is in the books that their kids are taking out. I once saw a father taking out books for his young son. I don’t think he really knew how to read, but his wife probably told him to take any Dr Seuss book. He (or maybe his son) chose the Grinch Stole —-. The librariann gave him a quizical look and asked if he wanted that book and he said yes. I sometimes wonder what happened when he got home…
I agree that the topics need to be touched on before marriage. I went to a school were all of this was taboo and nothing about how to have a Jewish Home was discussed in HS. I remebmber lewarning Rashi about shlomis bas divri and a classmate asking what “znus” means. The teacher responded when a man and lady are alone!
A number of years later I met with my Rav (a Gadol who is respected by all different groups) regarding a Shiduch and he asked me if I wanted a man to touch me. My response was “NO”. He wanted to know why , my response was “it is appropriate”. He was quite disturbed as to why i thought it inappropriate. His response was “if you don’t want it marriage can’t work!!!”
I am involved in an online support group for women/girls (two seperate forums) who have gyn issues. From my experience not knowing anything before kallah classes is detrimental to marriages both emotionaly and physically.