<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Self-Preservatiom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Health recovery]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:05:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.self-preservation.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Navigating the Senior Healthcare System Through the Eyes of a Retired Nurse Elder Abuse Investigator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The senior healthcare system is often seen as a safety net for our aging population, yet many seniors and their families face significant challenges when interacting with it. After decades working as a nurse and elder abuse investigator, I have witnessed firsthand the complexities and shortcomings of this system. Now, as a retiree navigating healthcare from the patient side, I see the stark contrast between investigating elder abuse and experiencing the system’s realities personally. This...]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/navigating-the-senior-healthcare-system-through-the-eyes-of-a-retired-nurse-elder-abuse-investigator</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ef73fe15d16921748d130b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:37:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4cd938_5836853bd284404096864dd20df738a8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Complain, And Where:]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s start with hospitals. As you all know, hospital staff in general could care less if you have complaints. They are busy, they are overstaffed, they are underpaid and just trying to do what they were supposedly trained for.They could care less if you have a lawyer because they know that is an empty threat. […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/how-to-complain-and-where</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab5</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:56:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Is What We Can Do And Why.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We look at all the problems in healthcare for today’s Medicare members and ask ourselves, what can we do about it? Well now, it turns out we can do a lot.As a retired elder abuse investigator I have all that public information which is right out there for everyone yet not labeled simply enough for […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/this-is-what-we-can-do-and-why</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab2</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:30:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Complaint: Doctors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next on th list of complaints is Doctors! I found that these remedies worked for me. This is all public news All professional Licensed vocations are regulated. A few decades ago Doctors were afraid to make mistakes because they could be sued for malpractice if they caused anything. It seemed like all they had to […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/next-complaint-doctors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab7</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:07:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I Learned.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am a Integrative Nutrition Couch with some of the world’s best training, I graduated from INN , after my Stroke. because I wanted to know why it happened and how, but more importantly, what I could do to make my recovery better. I am also a retired Nurse and healthcare administrator, as well as an […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/what-i-learned</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab4</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:10:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Begin the Journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome and Hello all, Come follow me as I recount my first hand experience of my journey through healthcare for the last six years. Not as a professional but as a patient and/or family member.  It will shock you, as I reveal what I have discovered over the past six years.  You will be shocked, and […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/let-us-begin-the-journey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab9</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:15:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tide Was Changing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We seemed to be in decent health in 2021, we were both active and no major problems were discovered.  That is, until my husband went for new eyeglasses.  His optometrist recommended cataract surgery.  Since this was a V.A. optometrist, we thought it was an honest evaluation since they had nothing to gain by making a […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/the-tide-was-changing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab8</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:14:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healthcare Has Changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least from a senior citizen’s point of view.Let’s take a good look at hospitals ,Shall we? First of all, hospitals don’t care, why should they? what are you going to do? where are you going to find a lawyer to take the case? The Government has made it law that there is a cap […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/healthcare-has-changed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fabb</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:45:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Atrocities Begin:]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking at so many scenarios, I will focus on my own personal experiences.Let me start with pre-COVID. My husband had an ischemic stroke in 2018 and went to our local Catholic hospital, here in town.  The Emergency Room was quite efficient and they were relatively quick to get him a C- scan to locate the […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/the-atrocities-begin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab6</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:02:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2022 Came With New Changes.]]></title><description><![CDATA[As we all know, in 2022, the year was still filled with the COVID-19 pandemic.  We were overwhelmed with masks, gloves, sanitizing sprays, and six-foot distancing. It was a mess and good  “ole sleepy Joe” told us to stay home and not send our children to school.  The expert? Dr. Fauci, who had no clinical […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/2022-came-with-new-changes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9fab3</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:45:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Husband Has A Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[After my husband had a successful Hernia surgery in 2023, we thought we were out of the woods and could perhaps get back to living life! Wrong! IThat following April , my husband had a sort of pulled muscle in his neck, and it hurt his arm to lift it. He called his provider at […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/my-husband-has-a-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c0a376fc1e0ec9faba</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:07:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Years Later In 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once I had rehabbed myself and conquered all the so-called diagnoses simply by losing weight and eating healthy while paying attention to the other points in the cycle of life, I made it back and now needed cataract surgery myself.  I visited an eye surgeon and was scheduled for surgery at an eye surgical center […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/2-years-later-in-2024</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9face</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:57:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Saga Continued.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The psychological effects alone, from a Cancer Diagnosis, have to shatter a person. They are about to fight for their lives, and these Oncologists make it so much more debilitating!  It is easy to see why, after all this nonsense, people give up.My husband finally calmed down, and on the sixteenth of August, he had […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/the-saga-continued</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9fad1</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:18:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Changed Providers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next we tried a dedicated senior center, where you had physicians, a pharmacy, x-rays and tests along with an activity room and an Uber service to and from the center.  All this and a vast array of unhealth snacks for free in the waiting room. Yes, cookies, soda, potato chips, candy bars, cheese doodles…. you […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/we-changed-providers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9facc</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:53:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here We Are In 2026!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, a new year and same old , same old. As you all know by now I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type II in 2022 when I had my horrific stroke. I reversed it within 8 months. However I do still check my blood glucose religiously. I take responsibility for my health extremely serious. In […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/here-we-are-in-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9fad2</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:28:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Can Lie But They Can’t Run.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally after having to go over the heads of some very poor healthcare provider staff, I had my cataract surgery. It went well  at the Surgical center and for the most part, staff was professional and efficient. What a surprise, like day and night.  I did get a blown vein from the IV in my […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/they-can-lie-but-they-can-t-run</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9faca</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:05:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mafia Of Healthcare]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is time to get a better understanding of Healthcare today. Following is my own personal analogy. I think many will agree that it is fairly accurate in description. Meet the mafia of healthcare Don-Big Pharma! They are a  unscrupulous, malicious, unrelenting cartel of which you have never seen the likes. They make the Italian […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/the-mafia-of-healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9facd</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:19:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Of The biggest Syndicates:]]></title><description><![CDATA[The biggest syndicate in healthcare are the Insurance Companies. Believe it or not, they are in business for one thing only. Make money!! Sure, they pay the same things that Medicare does ( actually, they have to), but at a discount, of course.   You see, this is the way they make money.  They take your […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/one-of-the-biggest-syndicates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9fad0</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:53:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pharmacy Circus.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We had the run around at the pharmacy with a new glucose meter and no test strips. After leaving the pharmacy I got a text from them saying I needed to pick up my prescription. Since I called my provider before I left the pharmacy I concluded it could only be the test strips she […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/the-pharmacy-circus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9fac9</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:52:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Do Have Recourse.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, I want to help others who have become victims of unscrupulous Healthcare Providers. The first tactic is usually very effective, and if it is not, you will then know if that entire system or group is unscrupulous. 1. You will find out who the head of that particular office is or who the Risk […]]]></description><link>https://www.self-preservation.org/post/you-do-have-recourse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee61c1a376fc1e0ec9facf</guid><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:30:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Anna Vierra</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>