Showing posts with label No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Promotional Copy of My Book is Out!


There was a day that her life got stumped.  First she was a Stanford doctor, then she became a trauma patient due to a car accident.  


Now, she could not stand up or else she would faint.  The doctor-turned-patient had an invisible disease and the doctors were stumped too.  What did she have?  Why must she live on IV fluid?  In No More Tears Dr. Margaret Aranda takes you on a ride to the door of Heaven as she describes her near-death experience after a car accident. She was unable to walk and unable to talk, and for over three years, I lived on IV fluid.  No More Tears will inspire you to persevere, to speak up, to be that rare bird, that underdog who wins despite the odds. 

Dr. Margaret Aranda, M.D., has written scientific articles on neurosurgery, anesthesiology, critical care, and radiology. She has received several awards for medical education in Oklahoma, California, and South Korea. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery
by Dr. Margaret Aranda
BUY IT NOW: www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/
ISBN: 978-1-62205-838-2

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Dr. Margaret Aranda's Books:
BUY IT NOW: www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/

No More Tears en Espanol
Face Book Page: Stepping from the Edge
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey through Time



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For Memoirs by Dr. Margaret Aranda, Please Click Here:

Age 31: The Color Blue


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Additional Articles by Dr. Margaret Aranda

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Full Disclosure: Margaret A. Ferrante, M.D.  is an Institute Physician with Cenegenics Medical Institute.  She receives no monetary compensation for hosting this website you are on, which is independent and not affiliated with Cenegenics. The information presented is for education and awareness.  Dr. Ferrante currently sees patients out of the Cenegenics office in Beverly Hills, CA. 
To book an appointment for a free Consultation, please email her at: mferrante@cenegenics.com

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Monday, September 3, 2012

So How Did it All Start, Anyway?


Great question.  I was leaving a visit with Grandpa, driving with my then 3-year old daughter tightly snuggled in the back seat of my Ford Expedition.  The chocolate lab, Ella was only 3 months old and I had fastened her in behind the driver's seat, flush on the floor in a crate.





We drove from Calabasas through Malibu Canyon, and had just begun to smell the ocean salt in the air.  Ahh.  I could breathe.

It was around 2 pm on a Tuesday afternoon.  There was no warning, no screeching of brakes.  Only a huge >Crash< and suddenly, we were facing oncoming traffic.  I braced myself to be smashed between oncoming traffic and the traffic behind me.  My arms tightened on the steering wheel.  I instantly heard another >Crash< behind me.  I thought we would be crushed.




But nothing happened.  Nothing.

In fact, the drivers kept on driving.  The cars in front of me parted through the waters of my truck, and the cars behind me drove blankly forward, simply moving over so they could forge on through.   Their faces were blank.  No eyes, no noses, no mouths.  Only a forehead and a chin.  No one stopped.  No one cared.



The light changed and I ran out of my truck to check on the baby.  Cars were whooshing past.  The light changed again, and cars came at me again.  One lovely man stepped out of his truck to help.  By this time, three cars were damaged, I could see.  I whipped the back door opened and my daughter looked up at me with those big brown eyes.  "Are you okay?" I asked.  She looked up from her little toy in her hand.  "Yes, Mama."

The door slammed on my right arm, leaving a bruise.  I had swung it opened too hard so that it had bounced back at me.  "I'd better get out of here," I thought, "She is safe."

Really, I was in a stupor.  Seven Police and Sheriffs cars, and two fire engines later, I was sitting on the grassy hills of Pepperdine University.  The grass and the sun, the sea gulls and the wind.  It was only the way it was, and nothing cared about what happened.  That was the beginning of the end of my life as I knew it, and the beginning of a completely different life.  I had no idea.



Later, Denise Dador from Channel 7 KABC Los Angeles interviewed me in my Cardiologist's office.



In retrospect, I can look at what I have written here and I know several things.  I know it all happened for a reason.  It happened so that I could meet thousands of people, and so that I could be a  physician in a hospital bed on a Cardiology floor with only gray-haired people.  It happened so that I would know what it felt like to be a patient.  And so that I would know what it felt like to be a physician in a patient's body.  Or was I a patient in a physician's body?   The lines were blurred.

There weren't any rules.  No one had forged the way.  The line between physician and patient was blurred forever more.  The physician had become a patient and now I was up for the final conquest,

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Dr. Margaret Aranda's Books:

No More Tears en Espanol
Face Book Page: Stepping from the Edge
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey through Time



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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

On Stepping from the Edge

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

I woke up twelve nights in a row, and I went to my laptop.  It's a MAC, of course, since my training is at Stanford and the Silicon Valley left its imprint on me and my fingers.  The screen glowed in the dark with Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, and iCalendar icons and the light cast its glow upon my bed.  No one noticed.  This was good for me, as I wrote.  And I wrote.



The words came to me in phrases that turned into sentences that turned into paragraphs that turned into Chapters.  Twelve Chapters in twelve days.

Stepping from the Edge is a succinct and concentrated Program for getting your Christian life back on track, or for starting your walk with a bang.  It is compelling, riveting, moving, and busting at the seams with motivation and inspiration for you.  The focus?  Really believing.



If you really believe that there is a God, and if you really believe that you can have a personal relationship with Him and with Jesus Christ, then this book is for you.  If you are going through hard times and are unsure of your walk yet you strive and pray and seek and yearn, then this book is for you.    And if you need to know that God works through hard times, and that God is really there with you and for you, and if you want to try to understand His Ways and perhaps more importantly, our ways of learning His Ways, then wait until Christmas.

Try Twelve Days of Stepping from the Edge instead of or in addition to the Twelve Days of Christmas.  Betcha you'll be glad that you did.



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Dr. Margaret Aranda's Books:

No More Tears en Espanol
Face Book Page: Stepping from the Edge
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey through Time



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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Book Authors and Me!

Friends, nothing like making this world go around a little better!  
So I am so proud and thrilled to introduce my Author friends to you...
Let's expand our horizons.  
Muaaah!





Books by Dr. Margaret Aranda
BUY IT NOW: www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/


No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery
Stepping from the Edge
Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes a Ladybug
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School





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Dr. Margaret Aranda's Books:

No More Tears en Espanol
Face Book Page: Stepping from the Edge
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey through Time



To Order Dr. Aranda's books, please click here:
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

"Words of Wisdom" Contest Winners Announcement



First Prize goes to:

Mike Goss for:

"Never Give Up or In on Your Life!"

Congratulations!  First Prize is an Autographed, Out-of-Print 
Self-Published Book,
By Dr. Margaret Aranda


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 Second Prize goes to:
MaryBeth Cacio-Luy for:

"Believe, Have Faith, Hope, Dream ... 
A Better Tomorrow Will Come!"


Third Prize goes to:
Judy Hardt Contos for:

"You Can Beat this Illness ~ 
Stay Strong and Fight Hard!"

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Honorable Mention goes to:
Debbie Shaw for:

"Today, You Can Change Your Future!"


...and Most Creative goes to:
Jonathon Burchard for:

"I would be Supportive, Understanding, and Loving."
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Thank you for all the fine Submissions.  We know Chronic Illness because We Live it!   Next time you or someone you know has a great Saying, please forward it to us and/or Post a Comment here!   We are smart enough to conjure up our own, Original Sayings that have Meaning and Purpose.   So the next time you hear a Great Saying,  don't forget to send it here! 



No More Tears: A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery
by Dr. Margaret Aranda
BUY IT NOW: www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/
ISBN: 978-1-62205-838-2

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Dr. Margaret Aranda's Books:

No More Tears en Espanol
Face Book Page: Stepping from the Edge
Little Missy Two-Shoes Likes to go to School
From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey through Time



To Order Dr. Aranda's books, please click here:
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