Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html
For her 2012 Commencement speech to the USC (University of Southern California) Annenberg School of Communications, Maria Shriver used a GREAT SUBJECT!
"Have the courage to press the PAUSE button!" Her message was a strong one and it is worthwhile to listen to her video tape. Also excerpts from the text, from Maria Shriver's address, can be read below video on the actual YouTube.
This is the Pause or Break button from my keyboard...
Maria Shriver delivering her power speech in video below:
USC Annenberg School of Communication Commencement Address by Maria Shriver
Reading Forbes.com I found this incredible advise by reading Travis Bradberry's story.
March 18, is Mom's 5th Dialysis Anniversary! She has made it more than one year past the statistics, according to the American Association of Kidney Patients, for people above 80. We are certainly grateful for having her still with us here on earth. On Sunday, after coming home from Church we did call Mom & Dad via Skype. On her 5th anniversary day she is having again her kidney dialysis.
This is how she is in her hospital bed during the dialysis treatment.
Weekly 3 x about 4 hours on her back...
Boring time and she is longing for some visits of course!
We did go each time when we went to the Netherlands. Also Anita our foster-daughter from Indonesia did visit her together with us.
If we calculate the time she's spent in her dialysis bed that would be non-stop 130, 24-hour days so far...
Quite a challenge but the alternative is no option!
Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my previous blog post about my Short Hair (see link below).
Just like to react to one particular comment; that of Bea from Modern Country Lady.
Also on my FB Fan Page, Bea did react. She would love to see me once again wearing the Stacked Bob Hairstyle as I have shown in a previous post.
For your memory I will use the photo here below:
Bea even did remember my yellow sweater... This was in April of 1992.
How I myself would LOVE to wear this Stacked Bob Hairstyle again.
The end of 1988... Thick hair!
Would love to still have full hair like that...
Very full hair...
This was me while working and living in Indonesia in the 90s - healthy and happy hair!
My natural curls are still there but my hair is no longer that thick and healthy because of the Prednisone that I have taken for almost two years.
My favorite hair dresser, Peet Kleeven from Happy Hair in my hometown Horst, The Netherlands told me in September 2011 that the very brittle and dry condition + hair loss when shampooing my hair, or brushing it, was a side effect of Prednisone... SCARY!
During winter time especially it gets so dry, that's also a reason that I had it cut off this week.
But I did indulge in the world's best hair brush... purchased at Neiman Marcus, see link below post.
In August of last year I did invest in these two Mason Pearson brushes; one for travel or in my purse and one for at home.
The cleaning brush (left) is included with the purchase of each brush, except for the pocket size that I got for traveling.
HOW I also WISH to have bought them sooner...
Since I brush with those, my hair loss was and is a lot less!
Hope it will work as well for step-daughter Liz whom we gifted with exactly the same in the spring of 2014. It was very hard to obtain one as Neiman Marcus, neither Nordstrom had ANY. So I had to order mine from the UK and had it mailed to The Netherlands
Though Liz is always SLOW to react, here she shows that the brush is doing its work!
Now, 1-½ year later this same brush has gone up to $ 205.00...
This might be a valuable tip for all those women that are going through medical treatment with Prednisone, or any other drug causing hair loss. See listing in link below.
I can only highly recommend this to anyone; regardless the steep price you pay for them.
But compared to my healthcare bills it is nothing!
Also in England they do make similar Kent brushes, for men. See link below.
Again, I hope this will help somebody else with the same condition!
If any of you has had a similar experience, I would love to hear from you.
