Tweet-up #health20fr with @epatientdave & @oxyvet (Ginny) Loving Life !!

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Tweetup today with @epatientdave & @oxyvet (Ginny) on #health20fr

True to life examples are unpredictable and highly original and so were Dave & Ginny, our tweet-up guests. Dave deBronkiart has mostly been invited to speak at patient empowerment conferences alone. But, in reading between the lines of Laugh, Sing, Eat like a Pig, one realizes the massive importance of Ginny, Dave's wife, in Dave's life…sort of like the wedding vows to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, … And Dave regularly reminds us that he and Ginny honeymooned in Paris…So, how fitting for the French and English bilingual tweet-up that they both joined in and told us how much they are loving life.

What are the takeaways from the tweet-up with Dave (three-years after the big battle) and Ginny?

1) More than ever, the importance of action versus resignation. Action includes: finding out information, making choices, arming up for combat, loving life,…working with the best medical teams.

2)The possibility of tolerating heavy side effects and getting the most out of the treatment, when you choose to do so…and hopefully being surrounded by love and affection along the way.

3) Dave was helped by a veterinarian spouse who could right off the bat explain the nitty gritty of his medical exams. It's not impossible, but certainly more difficult without. Armed with information and wanting more, Dave was eager to participate in Acor.org the site we've already presented here and that he learned about from Dr Danny Sands, I believe.

4) We also enjoyed @epatientdave 's mention of data prison, the scenario in which data is locked up at your doctor's office and not available where you need it

5) And saving the most important for last : the medical team of doctors, surgeons, nurses- those indispensable folks that dispensed the treatments

Here are some of Ginny's tweets

#health20fr Partnering with doctors rather than being dictated to is how I see good medicine should be accomplished.

#health20fr I want to be perfectly clear, attitude DOES NOT replace good medicine. It ADDS to it….or subtracts as the case may

#health20fr What happens and how we interpret it is our choice.

#health20fr Both Dave & I had negative experiences in our personal lives & chose each other to have a positve one,

#health20fr I never gave a thought to whether I was thinking positive of not. We decided to live our lives as we had before, with happiness

#health20fr Same for people (partners not owners). When I left my 1st husband people said I looking 10 yrs younger in just 2 wks

#health20fr Both the animal and owner make a difference. The attitude of the owner definately influences animal attitude

#health20fr We all need doctors…we are talking about combining ALL the positives to survive

#health20fr Friendly, happy animals recover much quicker than angry, scared animals. a

#health20fr I see attitude difference in animals makes a difference as to how fast they recover.

#health20fr yes,I think pleasure is an arm against disease.

#health20fr Curing unhappiness would be the first step.

#health20fr Can people be cured of unhappiness..don't know

hashtag #health20fr. Yes, empowerment comes from asking questions that you don't know the answers to…don't be shy

hashtag #health20fr.I didn't consider it a positive attitude, I just consider do what needs to be done.

hashtag #health20fr. Dave's body was sick…how do we change that.

hashtag #health20fr. For me it was being able to communicate in "medicalease" and having my opinion respected

hashtag #health20fr. Our patients are whole body systems, not kidneys,bone, GI tract etc.

#health20fr Veterinarians do all the medical care, not divide the body into sections….

#health20fr We helped each other and LIVED each day

#health20fr I supported him any way I could

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