Date Night

Dinner + A Show with your beau

What better time to heat things up than when it ’s cold outside, baby!?

Why venture out on a cold night, fighting traffic + crowded restaurants? Stay in. Enjoy dinner and a movie and relax with your guy

Include these easy additions for a coz y evening of snuggles. Have him light the candles and build a c r a c k l i n g f i r e, t h e n p o u r yo u r favorite wine Cheers to a wintr y evening for the two of you

Wear your comfiest clothes, be sure your toenails are painted, g ra b a coz y t h row a n d s e r ve some easy takeout or deliver y Then, turn on the show and let the ac tion begin! a the mo o d: candles or fire in the fireplace comfy clothes movie: dvd or stream ser vice S o much to cho ose from! a hint of his favorite scent wine cozy blanket

Chinese carry-out eat right out of the container No dishes to wash!

Take care of yourself with a new year’s resolution to get your annual mammogram! Breast cancer will affect an average of one in eight women during their lifetime. According to the American Cancer Society, 100 percent of stage 1 breast cancers can be effectively treated, so early detection is KEY!

15 minutes could save your life!

Happy New Year from PSI

By Lori Mlak ar

Before work ing at Plastic Surger y Innovations (PSI), I often asked Dr. Joe (also my husband) upon coming home how his day was

He often would just say, “surger y, surger y, surger y, ” after a long day Then when he asked me to help star t and be par t of the PSI team, I had a closer look of what a ‘day in the life of Dr. Joe’ was really like. I saw how he impac ted positive outcomes in people’s lives, promoted their wellbeing and, at times, made critical care life and death decisions.

I saw the long and sometimes arduous surger y days from an inside view and how busy the schedule could be managing so many patients in a day. I saw first-hand how compassionate, k ind and caring he was to his patients. I t was no longer “surger y, surger y, surger y.” I met his patients, learned their stories, and saw their before-and-after outcomes.

Margaret was PSI’s ver y first patient to walk through the door on Sept 25, 2006 She arrived in a wheelchair accompanied by her family and was being seen for sk in cancers She became ver y endeared to PSI over the years Margaret passed away this last year and she will be missed and remembered.

But for ever y patient, like Margaret, we embrace him or her, unique to themselves, not a diagnosis, not a number. We strive for the best patient care ser vice, treating each patient individually.

I am proud to be par t of the PSI team And each PSI member is unique in themselves and what they bring to the team O f all my professional positions from med-surg to critical care to research and hyperbaric medicine, to neuro rehab team coordinator to case manager to national lec turer for a clinical prac tice model, to private duty for a prime minister ’s wife and to my present role at PSI, I can say it has evolved into a position of great learning and growth and my all-time favorite!

But I am just a cog in the wheel I t takes ever y member of the PSI team to make it successful We have seen tremendous growth and change over the last 11 years since Plastic Surger y Innovations’ inception And after 11 years, it is still growing, changing, evolving and going strong Thank you, Dr. Joe, for ask ing me to be par t of the PSI’s dream team. I t truly has been an honor and a privilege And without you, it would be nothing You are the vital piece to it all

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Comfor t snacks to melt the chill of Januar y?

You betcha’. ( We say the only thing better is a crackling fire and maybe a glass of cabernet.)