May 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Dr. Galati is back in studio tonight and has his sister Celeste join the show on this Mother’s Day. As a nurse she talks about hospice care and the timing. They also talk about their mom, the food, the cooking, and being a health teacher.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the
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In the bunch of days on the day is day.
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This is Your Health First, the most beneficial health program
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you'll learn about health, wellness and the provention of disease.
Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, a very happy Mother's Day to everybody tuning in tonight.
Mothers that are living, mothers that have passed. It is
that one day to remember our mom. Is that I
like to think that every single day is Mother's Day.
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You've probably heard that before, but it is time to
really reflect for those moms that have passed. I know,
for my mom that died several years ago, just looking
at some old pictures and sharing them with family members
really brings back a very good time for our mom
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and all that they did for all of us. Now
on the program tonight, just in a second, one of
my favorite guests, my sister Celescilotti, will be coming on.
Celesta is a nurse in New York, our hometown, with
forty plus years of experience, and we're going to talk
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about moms. We're going to chat about our mom growing
up together. But also Celesti over the years has worn
many hats in the nursing field, and currently she is
working in hospice, which she worked in a number of
years ago. When she's back in that area. And that's
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one of those health topics that in a sense, people
don't like to talk about it, hospice because it deals
with end of life. But it really is something that
you really need to be well armed with with regard
to hospice. So Celeste will be on just a minute,
but again to participate, learn about what we do. Doctor
Joeglotti dot com is our website, Doctor Joe Galotti. When
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our back radio programs are posted on doctor Joegalotti dot com. So,
without further Ado, Dave, let's pull up, dear Celeste. Let's
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get her on the line here. Hello Celeste, Hello Joe,
are well. Happy Mother's Day to you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I know you were with you were.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
A kid in the family, and yeah, we had a
great day.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's wonderful. That's wonderful. So what I originally had wanted
to start talking about was Mother's Day and our own
dear mom, which has we lost her several years ago.
But the other topic that you're very well versed in
is hospice care. And for a lot of people tuning
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in tonight, they may say, I sort of know something
about hospice or it's one of those things that you
just don't want to really talk about. So from your
perspective as having been a hospice nurse, let's just start
with the basics. What how do you define hospice when
you talk to families?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, and it is a difficult subject to broach with
people because listen, nobody wants to talk about death and dying.
But we it's part of our life as humans here.
It's just part of the cycle. And I think a
lot of people just don't like to talk about it
because it's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable to talk to, especially a
dying person, because you didn't want to say, oh my god,
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I'm going to talk about dying and then they're going
to know they're dying. Well, we know they're dying. Most
dying patients do know that, so I think the one
key is to keep that open communication. But hospice is
basically for anybody clinically that has a life expectancy of
six months or less and this patient or this person
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has decided to forego all curative treatment. It's that patient
that has been on and off chemotherapy for years and
they say, that's it, that's enough. I've suffered enough. I
have so many, you know, situations, either caused by the
cancer or caused by the medication that I'm done, I'm tired,
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I'm done. And it's not just cancer patients. You know,
people think hospice cancer. You have patients with end stage
renal disease and stage kidney disease, liver disease, Alzheimer's disease.
So it's not just specific to cancer patients. But hospice
is such a beautiful option for patients, and I think
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patients should take advantage of it more because it is
that end of life care. We as nurses, as social workers,
as home health aids, as priests that come in, spiritual
leaders come in. They provide that end of life care.
They provide support. It's comfort, it's medical assistance, and it's
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not just for the patient. It encompasses the entire family, right, So,
and I think, you know, when somebody is dying effects
the entire family. So I think it's just something that
is very important that we need to get out that
you know, message that hostice it's not really it's people think, oh,
I don't want to talk about hostice. It's depressing. Yes
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it could be, but we have to kind of switch
the narrative a little bit and help our dying people
are dying loved ones, right, it become more comfortable. Yeah,
so that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah. You know, in many and you know, certainly in
livid disease, we deal with a lot of very, very
sick patients. And while you had mentioned, you know, patients
that have a life expectancy of less than six months,
you alluded to the idea that if there's no improvement
with the care, they are just going for test and
biopsy and scan and blood work and there's really no improvement.
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We always then switch to a person's quality of life.
That is so so important. But we'll pick up on
this so lest we're going to take a quick break
more to talk about hospice, I'm doctor Joe Galotti on
this Mother's Day evening. Hope you had a blessed day.
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Maybe you are driving home from your Mother's Day outing.
I hope you all had a great day. Don't forget
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Thanks for joining us on this Mother's Day evening. I'm
doctor Joe Galotti. You tuned in New Your Health First
every Sunday between seven and eight o'clock Raising your Health IQ,
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one listener at a time. That is our mission. Doctor
Joegalotti dot Com is our website and we have on
the phone my dear sister, Celeste Galotti, nurse extraordinaire in
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New York. Still here, I know, absolutely, still there. You know,
you and I talk a lot about how do we
do more than just getting you on the radio, doing
a podcast together a video. We have to we have
to sort of figure that out. I think in the
weeks to come we do.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We do. If anybody has any ideas, let us know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, So we were talking about hospice, and you know, Celeste,
one thing that patients' families, and I think sometimes families
get in a way of the dying process of their
family member. They will say, doctor Galotti we want you
to do everything. Now in my population, to patients, it
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may mean a heart transplant or a heart and a
liver transplant. We've already gone that route of evaluating and
it's turned out that they're not a candidate. But they
have this sense of if if they do not try everything,
no no matter how radical it is, they almost feel
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as if they're giving up on their loved one. And
I think that is just really part of the little
bit of a defense mechanism. What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I agree with that, and I think listen, people
are desperate. Of course, you want to do everything to
prolong your loved one's life. But I think where part
of the problem lies is with some doctors. And I
know this isn't you, but I know some doctors don't
want to say, listen, we're at the end of the
line here, let's talk about hospice, because I think the
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docs feel like they have failed the patients, which they
have not. It is just course of the patient's life.
So I think the doctors are not willing to discuss
hospice freely and openly as much because I think if
a patient and a family heard the doctor say listen,
let's talk about hospice care because I think this is
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the route we need to go. I think that would
take the burden off the family right and then they
would be able to then get in touch with the
hostage professionals and then proceed down that path.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I mean, I actually bring up hospice and limits of
care sometimes on the first time that I meet a patient,
because somebody very sick will come to me and we
will say, your only option for a good long term
survival will be transplant. If transplant is not an option,
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you then are going to have a very limited survival.
And so we put it right out there. So while
we are pushing for the patient to do everything we
can every option, I always tell them we are your advocate.
They know that the very first time they met me.
If it doesn't work out, plan B is supportive care. Now,
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is there a certain timing because study of the study
have shown that anywhere between thirty to forty percent of
people that go or referred into hospice it's too late.
So when when should you start having this conversation And
you professionally in real world, do you see a lot
of late referrals?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh? Absolutely, there are times when I'll go into a
patient's home, we'll get a referral from the doctor, and
this patient is actively dying. So what that does is
it takes away any use of hospice with the patient.
This takes away the patient having any kind of say
in what there wants, what their wishes are, what their
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values are. So I think when hospice is referred too late,
it's really it's really doing an injustice to the patient.
So ideally, I think it's we have to listen to
the patient. That's where open communication comes in. That's where
the doctors, the nurses, the families have to openly talk
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about the potential for referring to hospice. So it gives
them the option to make that decision for themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right, right, So do you do? You have see patients
that referred too early where you get a referral, you
evaluate the patient and you say, you know what, this
may not be right for you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, there's certain criteria that you have to need to
be admitted onto hospital. So when the nurse comes in
for our initial visit, they do a complete assessment. So
if they don't meet all of the points. There are
some patients that don't qualify for hospice. But there are
some patients who are hostice appropriate that come on and
they're still fairly healthy. They're still able to go out
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to dinner and do things. And there are a few
situations where maybe there's a new treatment that comes up
and they want to take advantage of this potential life
prolonging treatment. Right, come off of hospice. It's not a
big deal. You just come off of it and then
you go onto either palliative care or just you know,
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work with your doctor. So it's not necessarily a death sense.
And for those patients that come on early, if some
kind of treatment pops up, sure let's try it. And
they have that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Option, right And as you said, you could be on
hospice follow through with that, but if something changes, you
could get off it. This is not a once you
sign the paperwork, you are condemned to die.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Absolutely, And that's where I'm saying the patient needs to
be involved in that decision making process. If you take
the patient out of it, and then the families just
you know, brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and
cousins and children, nobody is agreeing. You have to know
what the patient's wishes. Are, and I think that is
the primary goal in starting the discussion with hospice care.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right. So with hospice, we talk about the hospice team,
could you, And it's going to vary city the city
and program the program. But what in general will make
up a hospice.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Team, So primarily it's nursing. You will have a team
of urns and LPNs. And this is in New York
so and I'm sure most hospices around the country are
the similar. But you'll have an R and an RN
that is the nurse case manager and she kind of
manages and oversees the entire case. You have an LPN
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that also sees the patient, and we're looking at the
patient maybe once twice a week, depending on their needs,
checking on their pain levels, checking to see what needs
they have. We provide all kinds of durable medical equipment
being in the hospital, beds and oxygen and walkers and
things like that. They're provided a home health dat if
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needed to help with some personal care a couple of
times a week, and a chaplain a social worker to
help at that psychosocial end of it. I mean, this
is all optional. You don't have to take it on
as a patient, but it is a great team effort
and as patients needs changed, then we kind of move,
you know, everybody's like a moving part, and then we
may need more nursing visits than social work visits than
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we just kind of work it out with the family.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Right, And then there's a doctor in the background that
is more or less overseeing in the medical care, pain
management and narcotics and things like that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, and typically each hospice has a medical director that
so the patient will then be followed by that doctor,
the primary care doctor, the cardiologist, and everybody kind of
takes a back seat. And then that doctor will prescribe,
describing you know, pain management, medication and any treatments that
are that are necessary. So the doctor does oversee the
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entire program.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah. You know, one misunderstanding about hospice is a lot
of families will think, Okay, we're going to get mom
into hospice that is twenty four hour, around the clock care,
and that really is not the role of hospice.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It is not. No, So there are different places where
you can have The most common is at home. It's home,
back home, that's what I do. So where the nerd
comes in for how a social worker comes in, but
primarily the caregivers are the family members. Sometimes families get
paid caregivers if they can't handle it. But if a
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family cannot handle it, or and they don't have the space,
or they don't have the room for a hospital bed,
or they just can't handle it, and that's okay, Listen,
you have to be able and willing to do this.
There are hospice facilities. You could go to a hospice
care center, and some hospitals have hospice floors so to speak. Sure,
so there are options, but if you can keep your
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loved one at home, that's where they want to be, right,
you know, So that's that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely, And you know, certainly you and I went through
hospice with Dad a few years ago. There is a well,
first of all, it's a beautiful experience, but also there's
a tremendous spiritual aspect of this which you cannot discount,
both for the patient and for the family. And then
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the grief that you know, the grief counseling that may
go on weeks to months thereafter.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Oh yeah, and with hospice, most most hospice facilities do
offer that up to one to two years afterwards for
the patients. And a lot of times, unfortunately you have
a young mom or a young dad that that passes away,
so they offer those supports to the children, right, you know,
it's so difficult, so difficult. So so it's it's it's
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it's really a beautiful assistance in helping somebody pass away peacefully.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And I know people, you know a lot of times
people will say, Hostae, oh, all you're going to do
is give my mom morphine and kill her. No, no, no, no,
The morphine is not going to kill her. The morphine
is going to be able to alleviate the pain, improve
their life so they can talk to their loved ones,
you know. So it's it's that misnomer about morphine as well.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Absolutely absolutely all right, So lets well, we're going to
take a break and when we come back, we're going
to a favorite subject, our mom. On this Mother's Day.
They'll be more with Celeste and I. We're going to
get more into the Mother's Day and the importance of
healthy moms, meaning a healthy family. It's really important. Doctor
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Joe Glotti, this is your health first. We'll bright back.
Welcome back, everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. We are so glad
to be here every Sunday evening between seven and a pm,
but also glad to be here on Mother's Day evening.
Don't forget our website, doctor Joegalotti dot com. Everything you
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need to know about me and my team and the
program is at that website doctor Joeglotti dot com. And
on the line for the hour is my sister, Celeste Galotti. Celas,
thanks for coming on and spending an hour of your evening,
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and you're an hour of your Mother's day with us.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, well I got my fill of all the kids
and grandkids, so it's good with you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So all right, good, well, perfect, perfect, So we're gonna
we're gonna change gears and talk about moms and talk
about our mom. That is sort of a link that
brings us together. How you know, I I've written about mom,
talk about mom a lot, and Dad of course. How
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you know, what do you think she was thinking when
we were growing up with the role the role that
she had as being a mom, but also the emphasis
that she put on food and nutrition and our health.
And I talk about it almost as if she was
a renaissance woman that back in the sixties and seventies.
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She was way ahead of the dies and the chemicals
and the stuff that she would never let in the house.
And we had to sneak to neighbors houses and friends
houses to eat twinkies and you know, stuff like that.
But anyway, what do you really think now that you
look back and you know it's coming up on almost
ten years in January, what what do you think she
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was really thinking way back when when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know, thinking about she was amazing. Anybody who knew
her just thought she was the most amazing person. But
besides that, when you think of how she grew up,
she grew up poor, right, she would say poor as
Church mice yep. And her mom wasn't really a great
role model, right. Her mom was present, but she raised
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seven kids. And I think that mom didn't get that
motherly instinct from our grandma, right. Our other grandma was great.
That grandma, you know, let's be real, she wasn't ever
present right in Mom's life.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, And Mom being one of the older kids, it
was really she was almost raising some of the younger
kids in a way.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
She was, And I think she realized the importance because
she didn't have it. The importance of being a mom.
So the second mom became a mom, she just put
everything into her family with her heart and soul. And
food was important. You know, we're a big Italian family.
Food was always very important. She learned how to cook
from Dad's mom, her mother in law, and she was
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just so great with the way we grew up. We
always had fresh food in the house. We never anything canned.
I mean maybe we had campeas every once in a
while she made, you know, something with peas, but other
than that, it never had anything. And that was just
normal for us. And like you said, we'd have to
go to the neighbor's house to eat garbage. That's you know.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I won't name the house. I don't want to
name the family that we'd go to. They might be
listening tonight, if you know what I mean. But you know,
I tell I tell theseries to my staff and sometimes
the patients where when we were old enough, typically I
recall that when we were driving and Mom would be
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making a dish or company was coming over, and you
would get tasked to go to the supermarket to pick
up onions, eggplant, whatever. If it was not perfect, it
wasn't bruised, it wasn't too hard. If it was, then
anything wrong with it, she would send you back and
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she would say, where's the receipt, Go back and return
these two eggplant they're no good. I can't cook with them.
Do you do you recall that?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, well I remember Dad having to go back many
times if you bought the rock.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, but I know. But she puts such an emphasis
on the quality of what the vegetables were. It was amazing,
it was.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And even when she cut things passed for Easter, my
daughter had made her garden salad, and it's caulliflower and
carrots and olives and all kinds of spices and all.
And she sent a picture to her sister, to my
other daughter, and she said, you didn't cut the carrots right.
Grandma would want the carrots cut in a certain way.
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So she was a perfectionist with cooking, and that just
that just was part of our life. Then she taught
me how to cook. She taught you how to cook.
She taught and how to cook so and we enjoyed it,
and she was she always did it with such great
joy and love. Everything was about food is love. I
love that saying. But that was mom in a nutshell,
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it was.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And when we would have you know, friends over, she
would just want to look at their expression of eating
a meal, not to say, look at me, look what
I put together, but it was more they knew they
were eating something really good.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, and even my son, All three of my kids
are good cooks, as you know, but my son had
made something. We were over there a couple of weeks ago,
and it was delicious, and I can ever remember what
it was, but he said to me, he goes, isn't
it great when people love what you make? And I said, yeah, Michael,
that's part of the joy of cooking, you know, that's
part of it. So she has passed that down to
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you and I. We then have passed it down to
our children. And now I see it in my grandchildren
and the older ones. They are really taking an interest
in cooking. And you know, I got my grandkid's little
kids' knives to help, you know, cook with cook with
their parents. So it's just a beautiful tradition. And we
have truly been blessed. Not everybody has that exactly, we
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know that, but we have really been blessed.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Now, and you know, certainly we you and I and
many families come from a point where they had this
kind of a mom that did all these marvelous things.
But a lot of people don't. And we both know
that you learn from above, you learn what your mom
taught you. And so we have people that are sort
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of in the gray zone that they want to try
to learn how to cook or be really super moms,
but they're not quite sure what they may have learned
from their mom or what they missed out on. What
do you see maybe amongst your friends or maybe your
kids and their circle of friends.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well, I think it's something. It's out there. You look
on Instagram, you look on Facebook. You know, cooking and
meal planning and different kind of healthy ways to cook.
It's out there. But some people just because they didn't
grow up with it, they just don't have that. Well
I can't do that because I've never learned, right, you know,
how to cook correctly. But I think that doesn't define you, right, No,
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that's an excuse in my you know, with all the
knowledge that we have out there, it is just an
excuse not to fish your family well, right, But you know,
people are struggling financially, sure, you know, so that's another
barrier to you know, giving your your your families good food.
Sometimes it's just about filling your kids' bellies, right, And
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if it's that you know, crappy food from you know,
fast food, that's what they're going to give them. And
that's that's where in our country we need to switch
things up. I don't know how, but I think we
need to look at that to see, like food is
so expensive and how can we get people to learn
how to cook and feed their families.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And you know, a lot of it, it's a tough one, yeah,
and a lot of it is eating. And this is
my opinion, eating good food or healthful food does not
always have to be expensive. There's there's tricks to get
around it. But what we're going to do so last,
we're going to take a quick break right now, and
I want you to think about how healthy moms translate
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into healthy kids and healthy families. So we're going to
take our final break here, doctor Joe Galotti with Celeste Galotti.
This is Your Health First, final segment coming up. We'll
be right back, final segment of this week's Your Health First.
I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Go to our website, Doctor Joegalotti
dot com. Send me a message. If you have any
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thoughts about Mother's Day, the role that moms play in
health and wellness, send me a message. They are happy
to hear from you and share your thoughts. On the
phone is my dear dear sister, Celeste Galotti, a nurse
in New York, and we are reminiscing about our dear mom. So, Celeste,
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you know, I talk a lot about and I'm sure
you see the same thing, a lot about health literacy,
where there are a lot of adults that they are
not quite sure what to do when they have abdominal
pain or chest pain, or they have an upset star
and things just sort of drag on and out of
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all of the roles that moms play, and you could
say the same for dads as well. Do you think
that we need to put more emphasis in moms being
a health teacher teaching kids good health? Where does that
responsibility lie? Is the school? Is it the church? Is
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it the lady next door? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's all of the above. It's all of the above.
You know, I think it starts at home. I think
anything starts at home. Everything starts at home. So I
think if we can arm our moms and our dads
with the knowledge of how to feed your families healthy,
how to cook healthy, what tools you need in your kitchen.
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Like you said before, it doesn't take a whole lot
of money. Right, There's this misnowhere that well, if you
can eat healthy, you just have to go to Whole
Foods and do shopping. No, that's not true. You could
go to Walmart and get you know, you may not
be getting, but you get, yeah, exactly, So it can
be done. And I think for you know, there are
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some parents out there that are struggling, and I think,
you know a lot of people do they do want
to do the right thing. I think we want to
do the best for our kids. So I feel like
you got to give yourself some grace, give yourself some
grace and say, all right, maybe I haven't been doing
this great. And you know, I was in church today.
It was my little guys, my eighth grandchild's little baptism today,
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and the pastor said something. We was talking about being
a mom and we are all imperfect, and he said
that I think the words were sincere. Love is passed
down in small moments, right, And I think as parents
as mothers, we're imperfect, but it's it's or any desires
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for our families. And as mothers, we want to be genuine.
We want to give love, you know, to the best
of our true selves. And if that's feeding our families healthy,
just because you haven't been doing it up until now,
you could start tomorrow. Yeah, you know so. And I
think those small moments of change is what then makes
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the greater change for all of us. So I think,
you know, we just have to kind of take it
in small little increments and make those small little changes.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Right, And it is never ever too late. Nobody is
beyond turning it around. That that is we have to
inspire and excuse me, it is it is. It's an excuse,
it's too late, you know. The other thing is which
again is rooted in research, and it has showed that
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how critical a role moms play. Now, again this research
was specifically looking at moms, but I would say the
exact could be substituted for dads. But this study, the
final summary of the research is when moms are not healthy,
this will trickle down to the children. A healthy mom
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is a healthy family. The other thing is poor maternal
health is related to boys becoming overweight or obese by
the time they turn eighteen. So we could look back
and say, for all of the moms and the dads,
you need to focus on yourself to make sure you're healthy,
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that you are showing really how to be healthy, which
then kids mirror us. That is the truth, you know, it.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Absolutely And you know what's funny as you're saying that,
I remember when we were kids, are pediatrician, doctor Curtis. Yes,
I remember sitting in the waiting room and the sign
and I don't know why I remember this, but the
sign said you live what you learn. I think it
was really and yeah, yes, I remember that. I remember
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thinking as a kid, what the heck does that mean?
But it's it's true. And so this is going back
how many years? Yeah? Years, you know. So it's this
is nothing new. You know, we're not you know, cracking
the code here. This has been something that has been ongoing,
you know. And it's funny. I was reading, you know,
on on Instagram. You could scroll all day long, and
(32:19):
I've read something today and I just want to read
it because I feel it's it's it just kind of
puts things in a mudshell and It's a quote and
it says owns about moms, of course, but it says
your motherhood may have started with you, but it will
continue on after you, in your traditions, in your quirky
and sometimes imperfect ways, in your love. Your motherhood will
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outlive you and live inside your children forever. That's why
it is the most amazing and most difficult job on
the planet. So we got a lot on our plate
as mothers, and especially those young mothers out there. God
bless you all because it's off, especially in today's society.
But but you do have the means to make your
children's life better, to make the planet better. You know,
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there's a lot of responsibility. But I think it's a
tough job. But I think they could do it right
to do it.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, I look at it certainly the world that
I live in, and sometimes it's not as if I
just you know, I live a life of one flavor.
You know, all of the obesity related problems, so this
is very very sensitive to me and the patience that
I see in some of the disastrous outcomes. But with
childhood obesity, we have to not look at it and
(33:39):
shame people and make them stand out and you've got
to be skinny. But parents out there, if they are
having children that are struggling with gaining weight, we need
to put a pause on that. We need to get
a break. There are resources out there to not only
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help you at the family, you know, at the parent level,
but also for the children to learn how to you know,
eat better and understand that. The parents have to understand
the ramifications of these different issues. And so really, in
a sense, it does get back to the parents and
there is help out there.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Celeste, Oh, absolutely, absolutely, And I think the focus has
to be not like you said, an obese child to
be skinny. It's it's not about that, It's about them
being healthy. Then they continue on to be healthy adults
and then the psychobal changes, you know. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, it is, it is, it is tall I think again,
I look back, because you're you're unique. Your kids are
older than mine, you have grandchildren. I don't have them yet.
But from your perspective and your vision and and your wisdom,
what do you see or or what do you say
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to the younger moms, the moms let's say that are
thirty five to forty five, as far as how do
you approach tomorrow, making yourself healthier, your kids healthier, your
family healthier. What do you say to them, Well.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think you have to look at your lifestyle and
you have to see where in your busy day you
could fit into meal planning. I think that is one
thing that really is not taking advantage of enough in
these young families. And some of my kids do do
it where they go shopping once a week and then
they plan the meals for the rest of the week,
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and then you're not you know, in the eleventh I
was saying, oh my god, I have nothing to eat.
Let's just go get McDonald's. You know. So I think
you have to kind of look and see where you
could sit in either cooking or educating yourself and make
it a priority. I think are lives are so busy
with sports and jobs and being on call for jobs,
(36:05):
and you know, there's just so much in our lives
that that gets pushed to the bottom. I think we
need to push that up to the top a little
bit more and teach our kids and involve our kids
in what it means to be healthy. I know I
see my kids doing with my grandkids. You know, they
limit the sugar of course they're going to have ice cream.
Of course I'm going to Today they had ice pops
and all kinds of garbage, you know. But but that's
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not the.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Norm, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
So I think we just have to be ever present
in learning more and fitting it into it. Just like exercise,
you got to fit it into your day something exactly.
Let's fit that into our busy days, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Celeste Galatti, my dear sister, thanks for coming on. Happy
Mother's Day to you. You have done a marvelous job
with your children and your grandchildren. Thank you, and your
wisdom is always appreciated by me and our listeners. So
have a great night, love you you too. All right,
all right, all right, everybody, good night. Hope you all
(37:03):
had a great Mother's Day. Don't forget Doctor Joeglotti dot
com is where you find out about us and to
all the moms out there. God bless you all and
take care of yourselves. We'll see you next Sunday night.
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Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, a very happy Mother's Day to everybody tuning in tonight.
Mothers that are living, mothers that have passed. It is
that one day to remember our mom. Is that I
like to think that every single day is Mother's Day.
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You've probably heard that before, but it is time to
really reflect for those moms that have passed. I know,
for my mom that died several years ago, just looking
at some old pictures and sharing them with family members
really brings back a very good time for our mom
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and all that they did for all of us. Now
on the program tonight, just in a second, one of
my favorite guests, my sister Celescilotti, will be coming on.
Celesta is a nurse in New York, our hometown, with
forty plus years of experience, and we're going to talk
(01:47):
about moms. We're going to chat about our mom growing
up together. But also Celesti over the years has worn
many hats in the nursing field, and currently she is
working in hospice, which she worked in a number of
years ago. When she's back in that area. And that's
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one of those health topics that in a sense, people
don't like to talk about it, hospice because it deals
with end of life. But it really is something that
you really need to be well armed with with regard
to hospice. So Celeste will be on just a minute,
but again to participate, learn about what we do. Doctor
Joeglotti dot com is our website, Doctor Joe Galotti. When
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our back radio programs are posted on doctor Joegalotti dot com. So,
without further Ado, Dave, let's pull up, dear Celeste. Let's
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get her on the line here. Hello Celeste, Hello Joe,
are well. Happy Mother's Day to you.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I know you were with you were.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
A kid in the family, and yeah, we had a
great day.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's wonderful. That's wonderful. So what I originally had wanted
to start talking about was Mother's Day and our own
dear mom, which has we lost her several years ago.
But the other topic that you're very well versed in
is hospice care. And for a lot of people tuning
(03:35):
in tonight, they may say, I sort of know something
about hospice or it's one of those things that you
just don't want to really talk about. So from your
perspective as having been a hospice nurse, let's just start
with the basics. What how do you define hospice when
you talk to families?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, and it is a difficult subject to broach with
people because listen, nobody wants to talk about death and dying.
But we it's part of our life as humans here.
It's just part of the cycle. And I think a
lot of people just don't like to talk about it
because it's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable to talk to, especially a
dying person, because you didn't want to say, oh my god,
(04:17):
I'm going to talk about dying and then they're going
to know they're dying. Well, we know they're dying. Most
dying patients do know that, so I think the one
key is to keep that open communication. But hospice is
basically for anybody clinically that has a life expectancy of
six months or less and this patient or this person
(04:40):
has decided to forego all curative treatment. It's that patient
that has been on and off chemotherapy for years and
they say, that's it, that's enough. I've suffered enough. I
have so many, you know, situations, either caused by the
cancer or caused by the medication that I'm done, I'm tired,
(05:01):
I'm done. And it's not just cancer patients. You know,
people think hospice cancer. You have patients with end stage
renal disease and stage kidney disease, liver disease, Alzheimer's disease.
So it's not just specific to cancer patients. But hospice
is such a beautiful option for patients, and I think
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patients should take advantage of it more because it is
that end of life care. We as nurses, as social workers,
as home health aids, as priests that come in, spiritual
leaders come in. They provide that end of life care.
They provide support. It's comfort, it's medical assistance, and it's
(05:46):
not just for the patient. It encompasses the entire family, right, So,
and I think, you know, when somebody is dying effects
the entire family. So I think it's just something that
is very important that we need to get out that
you know, message that hostice it's not really it's people think, oh,
I don't want to talk about hostice. It's depressing. Yes
(06:09):
it could be, but we have to kind of switch
the narrative a little bit and help our dying people
are dying loved ones, right, it become more comfortable. Yeah,
so that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah. You know, in many and you know, certainly in
livid disease, we deal with a lot of very, very
sick patients. And while you had mentioned, you know, patients
that have a life expectancy of less than six months,
you alluded to the idea that if there's no improvement
with the care, they are just going for test and
biopsy and scan and blood work and there's really no improvement.
(06:45):
We always then switch to a person's quality of life.
That is so so important. But we'll pick up on
this so lest we're going to take a quick break
more to talk about hospice, I'm doctor Joe Galotti on
this Mother's Day evening. Hope you had a blessed day.
(07:06):
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Thanks for joining us on this Mother's Day evening. I'm
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(07:30):
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Joegalotti dot Com is our website and we have on
the phone my dear sister, Celeste Galotti, nurse extraordinaire in
(07:51):
New York. Still here, I know, absolutely, still there. You know,
you and I talk a lot about how do we
do more than just getting you on the radio, doing
a podcast together a video. We have to we have
to sort of figure that out. I think in the
weeks to come we do.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We do. If anybody has any ideas, let us know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, So we were talking about hospice, and you know, Celeste,
one thing that patients' families, and I think sometimes families
get in a way of the dying process of their
family member. They will say, doctor Galotti we want you
to do everything. Now in my population, to patients, it
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may mean a heart transplant or a heart and a
liver transplant. We've already gone that route of evaluating and
it's turned out that they're not a candidate. But they
have this sense of if if they do not try everything,
no no matter how radical it is, they almost feel
(09:00):
as if they're giving up on their loved one. And
I think that is just really part of the little
bit of a defense mechanism. What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I agree with that, and I think listen, people
are desperate. Of course, you want to do everything to
prolong your loved one's life. But I think where part
of the problem lies is with some doctors. And I
know this isn't you, but I know some doctors don't
want to say, listen, we're at the end of the
line here, let's talk about hospice, because I think the
(09:32):
docs feel like they have failed the patients, which they
have not. It is just course of the patient's life.
So I think the doctors are not willing to discuss
hospice freely and openly as much because I think if
a patient and a family heard the doctor say listen,
let's talk about hospice care because I think this is
(09:53):
the route we need to go. I think that would
take the burden off the family right and then they
would be able to then get in touch with the
hostage professionals and then proceed down that path.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I mean, I actually bring up hospice and limits of
care sometimes on the first time that I meet a patient,
because somebody very sick will come to me and we
will say, your only option for a good long term
survival will be transplant. If transplant is not an option,
(10:27):
you then are going to have a very limited survival.
And so we put it right out there. So while
we are pushing for the patient to do everything we
can every option, I always tell them we are your advocate.
They know that the very first time they met me.
If it doesn't work out, plan B is supportive care. Now,
(10:51):
is there a certain timing because study of the study
have shown that anywhere between thirty to forty percent of
people that go or referred into hospice it's too late.
So when when should you start having this conversation And
you professionally in real world, do you see a lot
of late referrals?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh? Absolutely, there are times when I'll go into a
patient's home, we'll get a referral from the doctor, and
this patient is actively dying. So what that does is
it takes away any use of hospice with the patient.
This takes away the patient having any kind of say
in what there wants, what their wishes are, what their
(11:31):
values are. So I think when hospice is referred too late,
it's really it's really doing an injustice to the patient.
So ideally, I think it's we have to listen to
the patient. That's where open communication comes in. That's where
the doctors, the nurses, the families have to openly talk
(11:52):
about the potential for referring to hospice. So it gives
them the option to make that decision for themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right, right, So do you do? You have see patients
that referred too early where you get a referral, you
evaluate the patient and you say, you know what, this
may not be right for you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, there's certain criteria that you have to need to
be admitted onto hospital. So when the nurse comes in
for our initial visit, they do a complete assessment. So
if they don't meet all of the points. There are
some patients that don't qualify for hospice. But there are
some patients who are hostice appropriate that come on and
they're still fairly healthy. They're still able to go out
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to dinner and do things. And there are a few
situations where maybe there's a new treatment that comes up
and they want to take advantage of this potential life
prolonging treatment. Right, come off of hospice. It's not a
big deal. You just come off of it and then
you go onto either palliative care or just you know,
(12:54):
work with your doctor. So it's not necessarily a death sense.
And for those patients that come on early, if some
kind of treatment pops up, sure let's try it. And
they have that.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Option, right And as you said, you could be on
hospice follow through with that, but if something changes, you
could get off it. This is not a once you
sign the paperwork, you are condemned to die.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Absolutely, And that's where I'm saying the patient needs to
be involved in that decision making process. If you take
the patient out of it, and then the families just
you know, brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and
cousins and children, nobody is agreeing. You have to know
what the patient's wishes. Are, and I think that is
the primary goal in starting the discussion with hospice care.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right. So with hospice, we talk about the hospice team,
could you, And it's going to vary city the city
and program the program. But what in general will make
up a hospice.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Team, So primarily it's nursing. You will have a team
of urns and LPNs. And this is in New York
so and I'm sure most hospices around the country are
the similar. But you'll have an R and an RN
that is the nurse case manager and she kind of
manages and oversees the entire case. You have an LPN
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that also sees the patient, and we're looking at the
patient maybe once twice a week, depending on their needs,
checking on their pain levels, checking to see what needs
they have. We provide all kinds of durable medical equipment
being in the hospital, beds and oxygen and walkers and
things like that. They're provided a home health dat if
(14:36):
needed to help with some personal care a couple of
times a week, and a chaplain a social worker to
help at that psychosocial end of it. I mean, this
is all optional. You don't have to take it on
as a patient, but it is a great team effort
and as patients needs changed, then we kind of move,
you know, everybody's like a moving part, and then we
may need more nursing visits than social work visits than
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we just kind of work it out with the family.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Right, And then there's a doctor in the background that
is more or less overseeing in the medical care, pain
management and narcotics and things like that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, and typically each hospice has a medical director that
so the patient will then be followed by that doctor,
the primary care doctor, the cardiologist, and everybody kind of
takes a back seat. And then that doctor will prescribe,
describing you know, pain management, medication and any treatments that
are that are necessary. So the doctor does oversee the
(15:32):
entire program.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah. You know, one misunderstanding about hospice is a lot
of families will think, Okay, we're going to get mom
into hospice that is twenty four hour, around the clock care,
and that really is not the role of hospice.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It is not. No, So there are different places where
you can have The most common is at home. It's home,
back home, that's what I do. So where the nerd
comes in for how a social worker comes in, but
primarily the caregivers are the family members. Sometimes families get
paid caregivers if they can't handle it. But if a
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family cannot handle it, or and they don't have the space,
or they don't have the room for a hospital bed,
or they just can't handle it, and that's okay, Listen,
you have to be able and willing to do this.
There are hospice facilities. You could go to a hospice
care center, and some hospitals have hospice floors so to speak. Sure,
so there are options, but if you can keep your
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loved one at home, that's where they want to be, right,
you know, So that's that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Absolutely, And you know, certainly you and I went through
hospice with Dad a few years ago. There is a well,
first of all, it's a beautiful experience, but also there's
a tremendous spiritual aspect of this which you cannot discount,
both for the patient and for the family. And then
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the grief that you know, the grief counseling that may
go on weeks to months thereafter.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Oh yeah, and with hospice, most most hospice facilities do
offer that up to one to two years afterwards for
the patients. And a lot of times, unfortunately you have
a young mom or a young dad that that passes away,
so they offer those supports to the children, right, you know,
it's so difficult, so difficult. So so it's it's it's
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it's really a beautiful assistance in helping somebody pass away peacefully.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And I know people, you know a lot of times
people will say, Hostae, oh, all you're going to do
is give my mom morphine and kill her. No, no, no, no,
The morphine is not going to kill her. The morphine
is going to be able to alleviate the pain, improve
their life so they can talk to their loved ones,
you know. So it's it's that misnomer about morphine as well.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Absolutely absolutely all right, So lets well, we're going to
take a break and when we come back, we're going
to a favorite subject, our mom. On this Mother's Day.
They'll be more with Celeste and I. We're going to
get more into the Mother's Day and the importance of
healthy moms, meaning a healthy family. It's really important. Doctor
(18:17):
Joe Glotti, this is your health first. We'll bright back.
Welcome back, everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. We are so glad
to be here every Sunday evening between seven and a pm,
but also glad to be here on Mother's Day evening.
Don't forget our website, doctor Joegalotti dot com. Everything you
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need to know about me and my team and the
program is at that website doctor Joeglotti dot com. And
on the line for the hour is my sister, Celeste Galotti. Celas,
thanks for coming on and spending an hour of your evening,
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and you're an hour of your Mother's day with us.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, well I got my fill of all the kids
and grandkids, so it's good with you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So all right, good, well, perfect, perfect, So we're gonna
we're gonna change gears and talk about moms and talk
about our mom. That is sort of a link that
brings us together. How you know, I I've written about mom,
talk about mom a lot, and Dad of course. How
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you know, what do you think she was thinking when
we were growing up with the role the role that
she had as being a mom, but also the emphasis
that she put on food and nutrition and our health.
And I talk about it almost as if she was
a renaissance woman that back in the sixties and seventies.
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She was way ahead of the dies and the chemicals
and the stuff that she would never let in the house.
And we had to sneak to neighbors houses and friends
houses to eat twinkies and you know, stuff like that.
But anyway, what do you really think now that you
look back and you know it's coming up on almost
ten years in January, what what do you think she
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was really thinking way back when when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know, thinking about she was amazing. Anybody who knew
her just thought she was the most amazing person. But
besides that, when you think of how she grew up,
she grew up poor, right, she would say poor as
Church mice yep. And her mom wasn't really a great
role model, right. Her mom was present, but she raised
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seven kids. And I think that mom didn't get that
motherly instinct from our grandma, right. Our other grandma was great.
That grandma, you know, let's be real, she wasn't ever
present right in Mom's life.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, And Mom being one of the older kids, it
was really she was almost raising some of the younger
kids in a way.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
She was, And I think she realized the importance because
she didn't have it. The importance of being a mom.
So the second mom became a mom, she just put
everything into her family with her heart and soul. And
food was important. You know, we're a big Italian family.
Food was always very important. She learned how to cook
from Dad's mom, her mother in law, and she was
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just so great with the way we grew up. We
always had fresh food in the house. We never anything canned.
I mean maybe we had campeas every once in a
while she made, you know, something with peas, but other
than that, it never had anything. And that was just
normal for us. And like you said, we'd have to
go to the neighbor's house to eat garbage. That's you know.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I won't name the house. I don't want to
name the family that we'd go to. They might be
listening tonight, if you know what I mean. But you know,
I tell I tell theseries to my staff and sometimes
the patients where when we were old enough, typically I
recall that when we were driving and Mom would be
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making a dish or company was coming over, and you
would get tasked to go to the supermarket to pick
up onions, eggplant, whatever. If it was not perfect, it
wasn't bruised, it wasn't too hard. If it was, then
anything wrong with it, she would send you back and
(22:30):
she would say, where's the receipt, Go back and return
these two eggplant they're no good. I can't cook with them.
Do you do you recall that?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, well I remember Dad having to go back many
times if you bought the rock.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, but I know. But she puts such an emphasis
on the quality of what the vegetables were. It was amazing,
it was.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And even when she cut things passed for Easter, my
daughter had made her garden salad, and it's caulliflower and
carrots and olives and all kinds of spices and all.
And she sent a picture to her sister, to my
other daughter, and she said, you didn't cut the carrots right.
Grandma would want the carrots cut in a certain way.
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So she was a perfectionist with cooking, and that just
that just was part of our life. Then she taught
me how to cook. She taught you how to cook.
She taught and how to cook so and we enjoyed it,
and she was she always did it with such great
joy and love. Everything was about food is love. I
love that saying. But that was mom in a nutshell,
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it was.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And when we would have you know, friends over, she
would just want to look at their expression of eating
a meal, not to say, look at me, look what
I put together, but it was more they knew they
were eating something really good.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, and even my son, All three of my kids
are good cooks, as you know, but my son had
made something. We were over there a couple of weeks ago,
and it was delicious, and I can ever remember what
it was, but he said to me, he goes, isn't
it great when people love what you make? And I said, yeah, Michael,
that's part of the joy of cooking, you know, that's
part of it. So she has passed that down to
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you and I. We then have passed it down to
our children. And now I see it in my grandchildren
and the older ones. They are really taking an interest
in cooking. And you know, I got my grandkid's little
kids' knives to help, you know, cook with cook with
their parents. So it's just a beautiful tradition. And we
have truly been blessed. Not everybody has that exactly, we
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know that, but we have really been blessed.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Now, and you know, certainly we you and I and
many families come from a point where they had this
kind of a mom that did all these marvelous things.
But a lot of people don't. And we both know
that you learn from above, you learn what your mom
taught you. And so we have people that are sort
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of in the gray zone that they want to try
to learn how to cook or be really super moms,
but they're not quite sure what they may have learned
from their mom or what they missed out on. What
do you see maybe amongst your friends or maybe your
kids and their circle of friends.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well, I think it's something. It's out there. You look
on Instagram, you look on Facebook. You know, cooking and
meal planning and different kind of healthy ways to cook.
It's out there. But some people just because they didn't
grow up with it, they just don't have that. Well
I can't do that because I've never learned, right, you know,
how to cook correctly. But I think that doesn't define you, right, No,
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that's an excuse in my you know, with all the
knowledge that we have out there, it is just an
excuse not to fish your family well, right, But you know,
people are struggling financially, sure, you know, so that's another
barrier to you know, giving your your your families good food.
Sometimes it's just about filling your kids' bellies, right, And
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if it's that you know, crappy food from you know,
fast food, that's what they're going to give them. And
that's that's where in our country we need to switch
things up. I don't know how, but I think we
need to look at that to see, like food is
so expensive and how can we get people to learn
how to cook and feed their families.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And you know, a lot of it, it's a tough one, yeah,
and a lot of it is eating. And this is
my opinion, eating good food or healthful food does not
always have to be expensive. There's there's tricks to get
around it. But what we're going to do so last,
we're going to take a quick break right now, and
I want you to think about how healthy moms translate
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into healthy kids and healthy families. So we're going to
take our final break here, doctor Joe Galotti with Celeste Galotti.
This is Your Health First, final segment coming up. We'll
be right back, final segment of this week's Your Health First.
I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Go to our website, Doctor Joegalotti
dot com. Send me a message. If you have any
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thoughts about Mother's Day, the role that moms play in
health and wellness, send me a message. They are happy
to hear from you and share your thoughts. On the
phone is my dear dear sister, Celeste Galotti, a nurse
in New York, and we are reminiscing about our dear mom. So, Celeste,
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you know, I talk a lot about and I'm sure
you see the same thing, a lot about health literacy,
where there are a lot of adults that they are
not quite sure what to do when they have abdominal
pain or chest pain, or they have an upset star
and things just sort of drag on and out of
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all of the roles that moms play, and you could
say the same for dads as well. Do you think
that we need to put more emphasis in moms being
a health teacher teaching kids good health? Where does that
responsibility lie? Is the school? Is it the church? Is
(28:24):
it the lady next door? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's all of the above. It's all of the above.
You know, I think it starts at home. I think
anything starts at home. Everything starts at home. So I
think if we can arm our moms and our dads
with the knowledge of how to feed your families healthy,
how to cook healthy, what tools you need in your kitchen.
(28:51):
Like you said before, it doesn't take a whole lot
of money. Right, There's this misnowhere that well, if you
can eat healthy, you just have to go to Whole
Foods and do shopping. No, that's not true. You could
go to Walmart and get you know, you may not
be getting, but you get, yeah, exactly, So it can
be done. And I think for you know, there are
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some parents out there that are struggling, and I think,
you know a lot of people do they do want
to do the right thing. I think we want to
do the best for our kids. So I feel like
you got to give yourself some grace, give yourself some
grace and say, all right, maybe I haven't been doing
this great. And you know, I was in church today.
It was my little guys, my eighth grandchild's little baptism today,
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and the pastor said something. We was talking about being
a mom and we are all imperfect, and he said
that I think the words were sincere. Love is passed
down in small moments, right, And I think as parents
as mothers, we're imperfect, but it's it's or any desires
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for our families. And as mothers, we want to be genuine.
We want to give love, you know, to the best
of our true selves. And if that's feeding our families healthy,
just because you haven't been doing it up until now,
you could start tomorrow. Yeah, you know so. And I
think those small moments of change is what then makes
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the greater change for all of us. So I think,
you know, we just have to kind of take it
in small little increments and make those small little changes.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Right, And it is never ever too late. Nobody is
beyond turning it around. That that is we have to
inspire and excuse me, it is it is. It's an excuse,
it's too late, you know. The other thing is which
again is rooted in research, and it has showed that
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how critical a role moms play. Now, again this research
was specifically looking at moms, but I would say the
exact could be substituted for dads. But this study, the
final summary of the research is when moms are not healthy,
this will trickle down to the children. A healthy mom
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is a healthy family. The other thing is poor maternal
health is related to boys becoming overweight or obese by
the time they turn eighteen. So we could look back
and say, for all of the moms and the dads,
you need to focus on yourself to make sure you're healthy,
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that you are showing really how to be healthy, which
then kids mirror us. That is the truth, you know, it.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Absolutely And you know what's funny as you're saying that,
I remember when we were kids, are pediatrician, doctor Curtis. Yes,
I remember sitting in the waiting room and the sign
and I don't know why I remember this, but the
sign said you live what you learn. I think it
was really and yeah, yes, I remember that. I remember
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thinking as a kid, what the heck does that mean?
But it's it's true. And so this is going back
how many years? Yeah? Years, you know. So it's this
is nothing new. You know, we're not you know, cracking
the code here. This has been something that has been ongoing,
you know. And it's funny. I was reading, you know,
on on Instagram. You could scroll all day long, and
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I've read something today and I just want to read
it because I feel it's it's it just kind of
puts things in a mudshell and It's a quote and
it says owns about moms, of course, but it says
your motherhood may have started with you, but it will
continue on after you, in your traditions, in your quirky
and sometimes imperfect ways, in your love. Your motherhood will
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outlive you and live inside your children forever. That's why
it is the most amazing and most difficult job on
the planet. So we got a lot on our plate
as mothers, and especially those young mothers out there. God
bless you all because it's off, especially in today's society.
But but you do have the means to make your
children's life better, to make the planet better. You know,
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there's a lot of responsibility. But I think it's a
tough job. But I think they could do it right
to do it.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, I look at it certainly the world that
I live in, and sometimes it's not as if I
just you know, I live a life of one flavor.
You know, all of the obesity related problems, so this
is very very sensitive to me and the patience that
I see in some of the disastrous outcomes. But with
childhood obesity, we have to not look at it and
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shame people and make them stand out and you've got
to be skinny. But parents out there, if they are
having children that are struggling with gaining weight, we need
to put a pause on that. We need to get
a break. There are resources out there to not only
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help you at the family, you know, at the parent level,
but also for the children to learn how to you know,
eat better and understand that. The parents have to understand
the ramifications of these different issues. And so really, in
a sense, it does get back to the parents and
there is help out there.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Celeste, Oh, absolutely, absolutely, And I think the focus has
to be not like you said, an obese child to
be skinny. It's it's not about that, It's about them
being healthy. Then they continue on to be healthy adults
and then the psychobal changes, you know. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, it is, it is, it is tall I think again,
I look back, because you're you're unique. Your kids are
older than mine, you have grandchildren. I don't have them yet.
But from your perspective and your vision and and your wisdom,
what do you see or or what do you say
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to the younger moms, the moms let's say that are
thirty five to forty five, as far as how do
you approach tomorrow, making yourself healthier, your kids healthier, your
family healthier. What do you say to them, Well.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think you have to look at your lifestyle and
you have to see where in your busy day you
could fit into meal planning. I think that is one
thing that really is not taking advantage of enough in
these young families. And some of my kids do do
it where they go shopping once a week and then
they plan the meals for the rest of the week,
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and then you're not you know, in the eleventh I
was saying, oh my god, I have nothing to eat.
Let's just go get McDonald's. You know. So I think
you have to kind of look and see where you
could sit in either cooking or educating yourself and make
it a priority. I think are lives are so busy
with sports and jobs and being on call for jobs,
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and you know, there's just so much in our lives
that that gets pushed to the bottom. I think we
need to push that up to the top a little
bit more and teach our kids and involve our kids
in what it means to be healthy. I know I
see my kids doing with my grandkids. You know, they
limit the sugar of course they're going to have ice cream.
Of course I'm going to Today they had ice pops
and all kinds of garbage, you know. But but that's
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not the.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Norm, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
So I think we just have to be ever present
in learning more and fitting it into it. Just like exercise,
you got to fit it into your day something exactly.
Let's fit that into our busy days, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Celeste Galatti, my dear sister, thanks for coming on. Happy
Mother's Day to you. You have done a marvelous job
with your children and your grandchildren. Thank you, and your
wisdom is always appreciated by me and our listeners. So
have a great night, love you you too. All right,
all right, all right, everybody, good night. Hope you all
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had a great Mother's Day. Don't forget Doctor Joeglotti dot
com is where you find out about us and to
all the moms out there. God bless you all and
take care of yourselves. We'll see you next Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
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