Well Life Place Commitment to Wellness
Why the commitment to wellness?
My desire to work with a preventative health care model was inspired by a couple of events in my life. The first thing to influence me was when I was in my first nursing school clinical rotation. My job was to take care of a type II diabetic (caused by a long term poor diet, and unhealthy lifestyle). She was a middle-aged woman with amputations above the knee on both legs; these amputations were a result of the progression of her disease. She was very angry and quite mean. At one point during my shift, she attacked me when I was trying to care for her. It was quite upsetting to me. I went to the supervising nurse in tears and told her what happened. Instead of letting me change patients or go home, she said, "It is our job to take care of the sick. Get back out there and do what needs to be done to take care of your patients. Don't let this stop you from caring." So, I went back out there and continued to take care of her. I didn’t dwell on this event too much but it stayed with me throughout my nursing career as I took care of many very ill patients, including diabetics.
The next event to influence me involved my family. A few years after my nursing school patient, my niece, at age 12, was diagnosed with type I diabetes; I was devastated. At the time, the movie Steel Magnolias had just come out. The main character had type I diabetes and ultimately died very young from the disease. I was terrified that this would be the same path for my niece. As I reflected on this, I realized that the woman with type II diabetes from my nursing school rotation had a choice. She could have changed the course of her illness, if she had known how… she could have changed the outcome of her disease, as type II diabetes is preventable and reversible. My niece, with type I, had no choice. The cause of type I is unknown. There is no cure once you have the disease; all she can do is manage the symptoms and endure inevitable progression of this devastating disease.
My original career path as an ICU nurse involved taking care of extremely ill patients. But throughout the years, the events in my life have allowed me to make a decision to take a different path, a path of preventative care. It’s important to me to help people prevent disease and change the course of their own health. That decision keeps inspiring me and daily renewing itself to not give up, get back out there, and do what is needed to take care of my patients helping them make better choices for their health. We live in a
society that treats symptoms and disease once it manifests. My desire is to help prevent patients from ending up with a disease in the first place. I do this by using a comprehensive and holistic approach to address the causes of diseases before they manifest. The goal of Well Life Place is to guide patients to make lifestyle changes by offering nutrition counseling and helping them to choose supplements and herbal remedies that can prevent or reverse illness, like diabetics and other preventable chronic diseases. Wellness is a natural state; illness is not the failure of our body but the result of choices we make.
WE APPRECIATE THE TRUST YOU PUT IN US AND LOOK FORWARD TO
ENCOURAGING WELLNESS IN YOUR LIFE.​​
