volume 28 number 6 june 2017 dallas scott, editor
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Volume 28 Number 6 June 2017 Dallas Scott, Editor
Inside this issue Cares & Concerns 2 Editor’s Page 2 Mended Hearts Chapter #16 Visiting Reports 3 Donations 3 6th Annual Golf Tournament 4 June surgery anniversaries & birthdays 4 News from the Board Meeting 5 General Meeting Notes 5 Tick Season: Prepare for an Increase 6 When You Have So Much To Do, Take A Nap. 6 Recipes for Healthy Living 7 What I Know: “Always Leave ‘Em Laughing” 7 Chapter #16 Leaders 8 Pictures from the General Meeting 9 June 2017 Mended Hearts Schedule of Visits 10 Member Enrollment Form 11 Mission Statement 12
PRESIDENT’S COLUMN– Betty Drinkard
Boy! We sure have had a lot going on in Chapter #16! But, don’t we always? We are a busy and very successful chap-ter! Our record is proof. And you know what? All the 300 other chapters know it too! Hey, what a winning team we are!
We just had a great golf tourna-ment and, yes, it was a big success as always! A BIG THANK-YOU to our team members: Jean Blankenship, Dan Cousins, Judy & Wayne Toler, Esther Tucker. Larry & Lorraine Shepley, Laurel Dodgion, Nelson and Ruby Davis, Dallas & Frances Scott, John Drinkard, Jackie Carver and ME! If I left anyone out, I’m sorry. You know who you are — please let me know.
As you know, we have no Board meeting or Gen-eral meeting in June.
We have worked so hard it is time to play. On July 29 from 12:00 to 2:30 we are having our Summer Social Picnic. Again, our Dave Blackburn has of-fered his church pavilion for our picnic. It is at the Forest Alliance Church, Route 811, 1562 Thomas Jefferson Road. Thanks, Dave! The chapter will furnish the meat and everyone else bring your fa-vorite dish for us to share.
There will be no Board meeting or General meeting in August.
So, enjoy your rest until I see your smiling faces at the Picnic on July 29.
Proud to be your President.
Heartfully,
Betty
Jean Blankenship— Program Chair
2017 Program Calendar
June — No Meeting
July 29, 2017, 12:00 — 2:30 pm, Summer Social Picnic, Alliance Church, Route 811, 1562 Thomas Jefferson Road
August — No Meeting
September 28, 2017, 1:00 — 3:00, Jesse Naples — EECP Pulsation Treatment for Stable Angina
October 26, 2017, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Pearson Cancer Center — George Morcom — “Sleep Apnea”
If you want to read the newsletter and do not have or use a comput-er, ask a family member or friend to print it for you. If you have not given Chapter #16 your Email address, please send it to Dan Cousins at [email protected]. This will save mailing cost and get you the newsletter earlier.
To access the Chapter #16, Blue Ridge Mended Hearts monthly news-letter, use either of the web links listed below.
Centra link; www.centrahealth.com/mended-hearts-newsletters Mended Hearts Link; https://mendedhearts.gnosishosting.net/Chapters/Resources/16
Cartoons and ‘posters’ by PAGES
June 2017
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Editor’s Page—Dallas Scott
Much has happened in May. The Mend-
ed Hearts Chapter #16 Tye Cobb
Drinkard Memorial Golf Tournament was held May 19, 2017.
If you have any comments on this news-
letter, please feel free to send them to
me at [email protected]. I
can also be reached at (434) 610-4314. Please feel free to email me or call me.
May was a month for weeding and seeding; building more new
raised beds and starting a compost bin. Trimming the trees and
mowing the grass continue. The grass and tree limbs become
food for the compost bin and will eventually feed the garden.
May saw rain to grow the garden. A tornado warning or two to keep us on our toes and lightening to brighten the night sky.
Dallas Scott, Editor
Accredited Visitor
434-610-4314
What I Know: “All My Possessions for a Mo-
ment of Time”(Continued) “All my possessions for a moment of time” were the words spoken by Queen Elizabeth I on her death bed. At that moment Queen Elizabeth I truly knew the value of time. She knew that time is the one resource she could not regenerate. The life you are living now is the real thing not a dress rehearsal that you can get right the next time around. Fight to live a life that is an expression of your own uniqueness. There will never be another you. Measure your life not by the number of breaths you take but by the moments of time that take your breath away.
Is this the morning of your life? Is there dawn within you? Do your elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun so that your day is a perpetual morning? Start your day in the proper manner and the “tone” of the day will be set for the entire day. Each day is a little life and every morning of your life is a fresh be-ginning.
“Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go,” wrote Hen-ry Dobson. Therefore, guard your time; watch over it, every hour, every minute.
Give each moment the weight of your awareness and its true and due fulfillment. Ride time’s winged chariot. Ride on, ride on.
Submitted by Carollyn Lee Peerman
CARES & CONCERNS: Judy and Wayne Toler, Chairs
Lorraine Shepley — Spinal Issues
Charlotte Crews — Address: P.O. Box 10342, Lynch-burg, VA 24506
Laurel Dodgion — Shoulder Surgery
Please remember the family of Ernest Bowling. He was one of our faithful Chapter #16 members who passed away this month.
What I Know: “All My Possessions for a Moment of Time”
“The reason I beat the Austrians is they did not know the value of five minutes,” said Napoleon Bo-naparte (1769-1821). Do you know the value of five minutes? What can you accomplish in five minutes? “Guard well your spare moments. They are like un-cut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known; improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Do you snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of time? After all, it is the most valuable thing you can spend.
“I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world,” wrote Mirabeau. Time is your most valuable asset and worth far more to you than money. Why load yourself up with more and more material goods beyond your ability to live comfortably? A wise man enjoys what little he has while a fool is in search of more and more. What good are friends, books, the interest of travel, or the delights of home if you do not have time for their enjoyment?
“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour beforehand,” wrote Lord Nelson. Are you prompt in meeting appointments or are you habitually late and guilty of wasting the pre-cious time of others? Being prompt gives a good impression on oth-ers and is a demonstration of thoughtfulness and consideration.
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again,” wrote Pablo Casals. Each morning your purse of time is magically filled with twen-ty-four hours. It is yours to manage for the day. No one receives more or less time than you receive. Why not eliminate the leaks in your economical use of money, time, and opportunity? Are you focus-ing your energy and ability more on contributing than on consuming? A man of success achieves his goals while a man of significance changes his world. Do you clearly understand the difference?
Albert Schweitzer said that everybody should live their life as if death was sitting on their shoulder. Yes, dear friends, there is no moment like the present. Do it now. Establish priorities and remember that there is one thing among all the others that should be done first. First things first and one at a time is a motto to keep in mind. Are you letting urgent matters crowd out the important things you should be doing? Are you wasting five-dollar time on a five-cent job? Are you the foolish man who seeks happiness in the distance instead of the wise man who grows it under his feet?
Do you realize that stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”? Are you in the present but wanting to be in the future? Be here now. Be the keen spirit who seizes the prompt occasion. Im-prove your opportunities by making your thought start into instant action and at once plan, perform, resolve and execute. Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today? Are you waiting for the time to be just right to start doing something that you know is worthwhile and should be done at once? You know in your heart that the time will never be just right. Now is the point of power. Do what you can with what you have and do it now. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat,” noted Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).“
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VISITING REPORTS
Patients Visited YTD
May 2017
Patients visited —(Including H.R.)
Home Recovery —
Family —
Pre-Op —
Post-Op —
168
25
32
10
101
695
74
130
53
438
Hours — 95.75 434.85
ESTHER TUCKER — DONATIONS & GIFTS
Donations made to Chapter #16:
Surgery Anniversary donations
50/50
Cookbooks
New Members
Golf Tournament
Belk Charity Day
Membership Dues
Memorials
Donations: We appreciate all donations to Chap-ter #16. Thank you so much!
Please send your memorial gifts to: Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16 Lynchburg General Hospital 1901 Tate Springs Road Lynchburg VA 24501
**BE SURE TO CONSULT
YOUR DOCTOR***
The Blue Ridge Heartbeat is written for the education
and information of our members and others concerned
with heart health. It is not or intended to be a substi-
tute for the advice of your own physician. Contact
your doctor or health professional about any of your
symptoms or concerns. Don’t try anything new with-out consulting your doctor first.
Meet and Greet Welcoming Registration folks Hospitality Chair—Ruby Davis 434-845-5245 2017 Greeters
Date Name
7/29/17 Picnic
9/28/17 Jackie Carver
10/26/17 Vivian & Jack Hamilton
11/16/17 Tony & Esther Tucker
12/2/17 Christmas Party
May was a relatively busy month for the Mended Hearts Visitors. You have made a difference in 168 patients’ and families’ lives. Keep up the great effort! You make an im-pression with each visit and improve the likelihood that pa-tients’ and families’ lives will be improved by your visit.
Mended Hearts lost two special members in the month of May. Naomi Turner passed away Tuesday May 30, 2017. Naomi was retired from the Central Virginia Training Center and was a 2002 graduate of Liberty Bi-ble Institute. She was a Past President of Mended Hearts of Lynchburg, Chapter 16 and was a member of New Prospect Baptist Church.
Ernest Bowling died at home on May 13, 2017. He attended Buckingham Central High School and was a graduate of Virginia Tech.He was a World War II veter-an and retired as District Conservationist with the Soil Conservation Service. He was a lifetime farmer. He was a member of New Store Presbyterian Church, where he served as deacon, elder, clerk of session and Sunday school teacher.
Laurel Dodgion is recovering from shoulder surgery. Thanks Laurel for all you do. Chapter #16's HEART couldn't beat without you. We love you!
BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER'S CODE
Burma Shave
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June Birthdays
Dave Blackburn
Dan Cousins
Kris Krishnamoorthy
Dottie Matheson
Carl Obuchowski
Naomi Turner
May Surgery Anniversaries
Dave Blackburn 2010
Dan Cousins 2007
6th Annual Mended Hearts Tye Cobb Drinkard Memorial Golf Tournament
London Downs Golf Course—May 19, 2017, The Sixth Annual Mended Hearts Tye Cobb Drinkard Memorial Golf Tournament was held. Tee-off time was 8:30 am with breakfast being served in the pavilion before the tee time. Breakfast included Sausage Biscuits, Banana Bread, Pastries of all kinds, Coffee, Water and Sodas. Mended hearts Chapter #16 members pre-sent included: President and Committee Chair Betty Drinkard, Jean Blankenship, Jackie Carver, Dan Cousins, Esther Tucker, Judy Toler, Wayne Toler, Ruby Davis, Nelson Davis, Larry Shep-ley, Laurel Dodgion and Dallas Scott.
Seven Teams participated in the Captain’s Choice tournament. Teams included the following golfers.
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3
Southern Air Calvary Baptist Ch
Greg Graham John Drinkard Doug Perrow
Matt Jackson John Vasvary Pat Perrow
Peyton Martin Wayne Toler Harry Franklin
Harrison Scharf Ron Bryan
Team 4 Team 5 Team 6
Centra 1 Centra 2
Curt Baker Sam Geustemeir Mike Jennings
Caleb Buchanan Nathan Campbell Jim Meredith
Chris Thompson Bill Bass Don Franklin
Joe Archambeault Scott McCauley Geoff Lustig
Team 7
Ted Counts
Fred Roberts
Don Baker
Joe Stephens
Thanks to all of our Team Sponsors and Golfers! Team 1 — Southern Air had the lowest score of 55 for 18 holes of golf. Dan Cousins, Nelson Davis and Jackie Carver followed the golf-ers with Water and sodas to keep them hydrated.
Lunch was catered by Pat Jennings and Judy Bruce. Lunch in-cluded Pork BBQ, Cole Slaw, Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Fruit with whipped crème, Lemonade and Iced Tea.
Supporting members included Lorraine Shepley — Breakfast Goodies, and Frances Scott — Embroidered Towels for Door Prizes.
Doug Perrow won the 50/50 drawing and donated a portion back to Mended Hearts Chapter #16. Door Prizes included Box-es of Golf Balls, Gift Certificates, Golf Passes, a Black and Decker Drill, golf Shirt, and the Embroidered Towels.
Golf Tournament — Continued
This was an exciting and fun event to work and very successful for the chapter. Thanks to all members who worked the event for your time and efforts.
Mended HeartsTM Prayer
We ask for your blessings, Lord. We ask for strength, that we may pass it on to others.
We ask for faith, that we may give hope to others.
We ask for health, that we may encourage others. We ask Lord, for wisdom, that we may use all of your gifts well.
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BOARD Meeting happenings: May 2017
Members present included: Betty Drinkard, Betty Skoldal, Dallas Scott, Esther Tucker, Dan Cousins, Laurel Dodgion, Jean Blankenship, Judy Toler, Dave Blackburn and Carol Bryant. Belk Charity raised $466. The Golf Tournament raised $11, 075 after $1907 expenses were paid.
The Chapter agreed to purchase 25 weight scales for patients who need them. Dave Blackburn represented the Chapter at the Alta Vista YMCA Health Fair. Judy Toler’s sister, Pat Henry has been diagnosed with Liver Cancer. Please keep them in your prayers.
The next board meeting will be held on September 28, 2017 at 11:00 at Pearson Cancer Center with the regular meeting to follow 1:00 — 3:00. Jesse Naples will be speaking on “Treatment for Stable Angina.”
Regular Meeting Notes May 25, 2017
Dr. David Truitte spoke to a crowd of 35 people, 26 members and 9 guests, on Thursday May 25, 2017 at Pearson Can-cer Center on the topic of Non-Invasive Procedures and Cardiovascular Testing. He explained how he arrived at the treatment for heart patients beginning in the frame work of med school as he was exposed to patients and diseases and he found his expertise was as an internist. He said in being exposed to surgery, he realized he wasn't good with neither a knife, screw driver nor a hammer. With non-invasive procedure, it is a very organized way to figure out what a patient is faced with, by symptoms, with medications and how a patient re-sponds. Purpose of using these non invasive ways is to assess symptoms, define risk of a CV event, the anatomy of it and then the physiology of which 'test' to use. Energy is how he begins . It's a measure of what 'we' produce ourselves. This is measured by ECG which is signals of waves of energy. The heart has energy. The ultrasound, echocardiogram, gives waves of certain frequency when, like an engineer, figures out problems, and this test sees the' energy' bouncing off the heart. The ionizing radia-tion, gamma radiation, uses nuclear profusion imagining. The tests can also be the PET scan using different iso-topes and the CT/CIA (cat scans) to get a scan of the heart quickly to get an idea of the heart and its workings. Magnetism test (MRI) can see protein motion. The stress tests is pretty common as those patients ‘walk’ and are monitored with leads on the chest. Dr. Truitte showed an EKG strip and explained what all those 'squiggly' lines meant. This of course was much too technical for us but interesting to know how they are read. Dr. Truitte says 'they', the doctors, look at so many of them and can pick up something almost with a glance. However, he said sometimes, to step back from the test, it can be seen more clearly. All of these procedures are done very systematically. Dr. Truitte explained that the right ventricle of the heart doesn't like to be bothered and it only pushes filtered blood through to the lungs. The left side of the heart pushes blood to all parts of the body. How accurate is the stress testing for significant accura-cy? The ECG is 65%, nuclear testing is 85-92% pushing accuracy and the echocardiogram is 90% and pushes accuracy even more. In terms of diagnostic testing the risk comes from the risk factors. A sobering statistic is of those patients who discover today that they have heart disease, 1/2 will have a heart attack and of those, 1/2 of these will die of that heart attack. This statistic hasn't changed in 75 years. It was interesting to note that the cauterization is not 100% accurate. It gives a very educated picture is good but Dr. Truitte stated that one should never have a cath unless it is needed. He stated there is NO perfect test!
The touch of his father — “Watch my hands”
Buddy Valastro Sr. was folding and stretching dough in the family's
Hoboken, N.J. bakery shop.
“Watch me”, he said to his son. He pulled the dough, worked it thin
into the nearly translucent sheet of pastry necessary for the perfect
sfogliatelle. Lobster tails, some call them: incredibly light and flaky
pastries filled with cream. It was the signature dish at Carlo's Bakery
Shop.
Buddy Jr. just hadn't been able to make that pastry. He had mastered
the fancy cakes and baked delights at the store, but sfogliatelle mocked
him. There was a special magic in being able to stretch the dough thin
as parchment, yet not tear it; to pull it out, but not bunch it.
Buddy Sr. had the touch that escaped his son. Maybe it was because
Buddy Sr. came from three generations of bakers, all the way back to
Italy. And it was certainly because Buddy Sr. spent 30 years making
lobster tails. The locally famous shop in New Jersey was opened by
Carlo Guastaffero in 1910 and purchased by Buddy Sr. in 1964. He had
grand plans, then. Maybe to bake a cake that would grace a wedding
magazine. Maybe to expand.
But that particular night was just about one thing. "Watch me," his
father said. "I'm not here to play around. I’m here to show you how to
make lobster tails one more time."
So Buddy Jr. watched his father again and moved his hands in the bak-
ers dance until he, too, pulled out a thin layer of dough. No bunches.
No tears. Perfection.
And then Buddy Jr. woke up.
Buddy, who took over the shop at age 17, after his father died of cancer,
awoke in excitement and, in life as in his dream, rushed to the bake
shop. For the first time, Buddy Jr. pulled out the perfect sfogliatelle
pastry. His father's last visit to the bake shop was not merely a dream;
It was a gift.
Today, fans of reality television know Buddy Jr. as The Cake Boss . That
little shop in Hoboken is now an industry with 18 locations worldwide.
The shop's cakes have graced the covers of wedding magazines. And
Buddy Jr. is a television star, who still grieves for his dad and is still
grateful for the perfect sfogliatelle.
(Adapted from a first-person article in Guideposts)
New Members Gabor Siska Tony Robinson,
223 Deborah Dr., 228 Chapel Lane,
Lynchburg 24501 Lynchburg, 24501
(434) 234-3475 (434) 444-8801
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Tick season: Prepare for an increase
You can tell by the acorns.
A bumper crop of acorns means good times for mice and that means lots of food for ticks.
According to Richard S. Ostfeld, a Cary Institute scientist, there was a bumper crop of acorns in 2015. Lots of ticks therefore survived on mice and reproduced.
Since ticks have a two-year life cycle, the number of nymph-stage ticks should be huge this spring. In areas with lots of snow cover this winter, the tick population might be mitigated, but in areas with a mild winter, the tick population should be big.
Naturally, where there are ticks, there is Lyme disease. That's going to be big, too.
Of course not every tick bite transmits Lyme or any other disease but more ticks carry pathogens today than in the past.
Connecticut, whose Agricultural Experiment Station collects and studies ticks, found in May that 38 percent of collect-ed ticks tested positive for Lyme disease, according to the Wall Street Journal. That is up from 27 percent in the last five years.
The deer tick can actually transmit up to seven pathogens that cause diseases in humans, one of which is Lyme dis-ease.
Connecticut also found that 10 percent of ticks tested positive for a pathogen that causes Babesiosis, a disease similar to malaria. About 5 percent tested positive for Anaplasmosis, a serious disease that causes anemia and an increase in the heart rate. In 2009, talk show host David Letterman revealed he got the disease from an infected tick while camping with his son.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease every year, about three times the number 20 years ago.
If you spot a tick quickly, chances are you will not be infected. Ticks latch on for three to five days but a tick that bites for only a few hours probably won't transmit an infection, according to the CDC.
Copied from pagesmag.com.
WHEN YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO DO, TAKE A NAP.
Why take a nap when you are overloaded with work? Isn’t this a crazy idea? Not so fast. The time that you spend quietly resting is the time that your mind needs to reorder priorities. Not everything you do is of equal importance.
Do the most important things first and eliminate the rest. Try this plan and see how much more you can accomplish.
Who would have more pressing responsibilities than the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of England? President Kennedy took a forty-five minute nap right after lunch. During this time his strength was restored and he was able to carry on social commitments well into the evening.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill took a nap every afternoon during the time England was fighting for its survival in the Second World War. His fighting spirit kept England alive: “Never, never give up.”
“The busier, the better,” people say. Go more, do more, be more. In this technological age with laptops and cell phones, are you always “on?” Are you pushing yourself to be more proactive and available? What about some “down” time? Does it seem like a waste of time to stop long enough to be quiet?
Would a thirty-hour day solve your problem? Would the additional hours relieve the tremendous pressure under which you live? Not really. The secret of overcoming a feverish pace is balance, a sense of timing. The issue is not simply a lack of time but the choices you make with the time you have.
What is the first step for you to take in gaining control of your time? It is to decide what activities are the most important and give them their proper priority. Realize that there is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today. The tendency is to put off the important and do the urgent. Think through what is important in your life and resolve to do them. Withstand the urgency of the moment by implementing the important.
Why let inner compulsions under the pressure of external demands break you down with a heart attack, ulcer, or stroke? Meditate on the example of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while.” The busier you are, the more you need these periods of rest and solitude. There is nothing that will substitute for knowing that on this day, at this hour, in this place you are making the wisest most profitable use of your time while your life moves on whether long or short.
Submitted by Carollyn Lee Peerman.
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Recipes for Healthy Living
Easy steps to keeping a kitchen garden
Keeping a kitchen garden can benefit your pocketbook and your health. With some simple planning and a little bit of space in the yard, you can have a garden that will keep you fed all year long.
Start with seeds
In more northerly zones, buy and start seeds in February or March. Warmer zones might start even earlier. Seeds offer great variety and they are much cheaper than starts. You can get just what you want including heirloom veg-gies. An envelope of seeds can cost $5, but you get about 50 seeds. If you can't use all of them one year, keep them cool and dry and your investment will span two or more seasons.
Cold-hardy plants
Begin with a few plants that do well in the cold and can be planted as soon as the ground is thawed and workable. They include lettuces, cabbage, spinach, and peas according to www.botanicalinterests.com. By late spring, you can be picking a salad from your garden each day. In late summer, you and the kids can snack on grape tomatoes right out of the garden.
Warmth-loving seeds
Start seeds that are less cold hardy at a sunny window inside or sow them directly in your garden when it is warm enough. Squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers need warmer temperatures.
Berries and herbs
You can buy a flat of strawberry plants and each year they will come back and spread. A blueberry bush will do the same thing. Most herbs work the same way. A small mint plant will come back every year and spread. The same is true for oregano and other herbs.
What I Know: “Always Leave `Em Laughing”
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face,” noted Victor Hugo. Who would know that better than Ronald Reagan? He followed the old vaudeville prescription, “Always leave `em laugh-ing.” Most of the time as he came to the close of a meeting he was able to come up with a story or a joke that had some relevance to the preceding discussion. That way as his guests departed he could leave them with the peculiar sense of well being that a good laugh can impart. Having just finished reading Peter J. Wallison’s book, Ronald Reagan The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency, I miss Ronald Reagan terribly. After all, he was a comedian who enjoyed his jokes as much as the people he told them to.
Did you know that scientists have found that laughter stimulates the production of the brain chemical called endor-phins? Endorphins affect the hormonal levels in the body that are related to feelings of joy, the easing of pain, and the strengthening of the immune response. Endorphins are a substance in the brain that attaches to the same cell receptors that morphine does. Endorphins are located in centers of the brain that manage and coordinate your mus-cular action and are anatomically very close to the centers that manage feeling and thinking. No wonder Wilferd Pe-terson said, “He who laughs—lasts.” “Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used lung cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health,” noted O.S. Marden. Moreover, it was Aristotle who said, “Laughter is a bodily exercise precious to health.” Why not laugh when you can? It is cheap medicine.
“Start a humor library. What makes you laugh? Whether it’s news clippings, cartoons, letters from friends, posters, biographies, old or new comedy movies, joke encyclopedias, or humorous stories, expand your collection. Pay atten-tion to whatever harmless humor tickles your funny bone and make it a point to keep it close by at all times.” These are the ideas of Dr. Robert K. Cooper, author of the book, High Energy Living.
“It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it,” wrote Seneca. Laughter bridges the gap between the infinite magnitude of your tasks and the limitation of your strength. Why is it that man alone laughs? Friedrich Nie-tzsche said man “alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” Voltaire put it this way: “Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries.” Therefore, Dear Readers, laugh a little. It is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.
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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Dr. Kenneth Saum, Cardiology Surgeon
Dr. Mark Townsend, Pediatric Cardiologist
Betsy Mudie, Volunteer Office Liaison
Curt Baker, VP Cardiovascular Dept. LGH
Betty Drinkard President & By-Laws Chair
Laurel Dodgion 1st VP
Dave Blackburn 2nd VP
Esther Tucker, Secretary
Debbie Sipes, Treasurer
Carol Bryant, President’s Advisor & Past President
Jean Blankenship, Program Chair
Dave Blackburn, Health Fairs
Jack Hamilton, Past President, Nominating Chair
Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16
Visiting Program Chairman: Dan Cousins
Your Visiting Committee:
Visiting Assignments: Laurel Dodgion
Patient packs & bags: Lawrence Shepley
Follow up Telephone Calls: Committee
Training: Members
Data Collectors: Dan Cousins
Ad Hoc Committees:
Standing Committees: Nominating — Rev. Jack Hamilton, Past President
Membership — Laurel Dodgion
Celebrations & Concerns — Judy & Wayne Toler
Photographer — Carollyn Peerman
Publicity & By-Laws — Betty Drinkard
Program — Jean Blankenship
Hospitality — Ruby & Nelson Davis
Newsletter – Dallas Scott
Visiting Chair — Dan Cousins
Health Fairs — Dave Blackburn
Anniversary Dinner — Ruby Davis
Hearts of Fame — Laurel Dodgion
Speakers Bureau — Betty Drinkard
Financial — Debbie Sipes
Golf Committee Chair — Betty Drinkard
Historian — Betty Skoldal, Past President
Chapter #16 Leaders
President: Betty Drinkard 434 525-2852
1st Vice President: Laurel Dodgion 434 525-0475
2nd Vice President: Dave Blackburn 434 237-6581
Secretary: Esther Tucker 434 239-4587
Treasurer: Debbie Sipes 434 546-0808
Asst. Treasurer: Nelson Davis 434 845-5245
Publicity : Betty Drinkard 434 525-2852
Health Fairs: Dave Blackburn 434 237-6581
Cardiac Staff Advisor: Cindi Cole 434 200-6701
Staff Editorial Advisor: Michelle Tinnell 434 200-7062
Immediate Past President: Carol Bryant 434 384-5982
Newsletter Editor: Dallas Scott 434 610-4314
Volunteer Liaison: Betsy Mudie 434 200-4696 Director of Volunteer Services — LGH/VBH Medical Advisors: Ken Saum, M.D. 434 528-2212 Chad Hoyt, M.D. 434 200-5252 Curt Baker, Centra V.P. 434 200-4696 Chapter #16 Office (voice mail) 434 200-7611
National Mended Hearts
National President: Donette Smith www.mendedhearts.org Mid-Atlantic Regional Dir: Gerald H. Kemp 803 684-9512 Ghkemp [email protected] Mid-Atlantic Asst. RD: Bill Voerster 704 310-8354 [email protected] National Executive Dir: Norm Linsky 214 390-3265 [email protected]
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Art Work and Quotes from pagesmag.com Pictures by Carollyn Lee Peerman
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence B. Kelland
You never lose a dream; it just incubates as a hobby.
Larry Page
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“It’s Great to be Alive - and to Help Others!”
Blue Ridge Mended Hearts Chapter #16
Lynchburg General Hospital
1901 Tate Springs Road Lynchburg, VA 24501
THE MENDED HEARTS, INC.
MISSION STATEMENT: Dedicated to inspiring hope, encouragement
and support to heart disease patients and their families! We achieve
this in the following manner:
to visit, with physician approval, and to offer encouragement and support to
heart disease patients and their families;
to distribute information of specific educational value to members of the
Mended Hearts, Inc. and to heart disease patients and their families;
to establish and maintain a program of assistance to physicians, nurses, medi-
cal professionals and health care organizations in their work with heart disease
patients and their families;
to cooperate with other organizations in education and research activities per-
taining to heart disease;
to assist established heart disease rehabilitation programs for members and
their families;
to plan and conduct suitable programs of social and educational interest for
members, and for heart disease patients and their families.
Blue Ridge Chapter #16
of Mended Hearts, Inc.
expresses our apprecia-
tion for the generous
support of Centra in
providing mailing and
printing costs for this
newsletter.
June 2017