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MARKET TREASURY • COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA • 2013 - ISSUE 1

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The Beautiful LifeBy AmeliA WAde

At La Bella Vita Ristorante Italiano, it truly is the beau-tiful life. The atmosphere and décor suggests a quiet elegance, the kind that makes you wonder if you should have made a reservation, or maybe left the kids at home. But it’s fine that you just showed up, and great that you brought the kids. Co-owners Giuliano Casulli and Tiz-iano Cestari are here to show Colorado Springs the way a real Italian family eats.

And they would know, too. They were both born and raised in Italy, only moving to America in 2003. Gi-uliano and Tiziano, working with other family members, come together to make a truly authentic Italian meal. They also recognize the value of a special occasion, and have room separate from the main dining area for your special event.

Come on in, enjoy a meal. Meet the Giuliano and Tiziano, and revel in their hospitality. Indulge in their wine selections. But most of all, come find out the way a real Italian family eats.

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By KAthy Allen

It amazes me each new year how much conversation is devoted to making resolutions, followed by failure to launch those resolutions! I fall right into step with the most popular resolutions – weight loss, more money, a hap-pier workplace, et cetera.

On New Year’s Day 2013, I read an article that stated resolutions don’t stick and goals are the answer. This resonated with me as I have always heard if you don’t establish a goal, you can never accomplish it! This au-thor is a financial planner who believes we each should have 30 to 50 goals for the upcoming year. As scary as this may sound, it made sense when broken into “bite size” pieces.

Resolution is the result of determining an action. In writing a story, the resolution is the ending. It’s interesting that we make our resolutions as we step into the future year, when more often, the resolve is the culmination of efforts – the end.

Goals are the achievement of plans you establish for the future. As chil-dren, we dreamed of how we would like our life to unfold. Setting goals is similar as you allow your brain to think bigger than what you currently are.

Here is how my process unfolded… I categorized my life into four seg-ments: health, relationships, financial, and career. With these four facets of life, it was easier to begin pondering the importance of the smaller steps to attain them. Weight loss, a popular resolution for most of us, became a smaller component of overall health. As an aging woman, remaining fit is more eminent to me than a number on the scale. I set a goal to reinstate my aerobic and resistance exercises. I trust that by attaining this goal, my overall weight will begin to wane.

The relationship category was more interesting to work on. I am married so searching for a partner is not a goal. My three sons live nearby and are supportive and happy. Where my deficiencies surfaced was in my friend-ships. Working in the human services industry, my beliefs around helping others have become stronger through the years. These beliefs have colored my attitudes about how others live their lives, around politics, as well as religion. The strength of my convictions has become a wedge in some of my long time friendships. My goal is to find common ground incorporating communication, flexibility, forgiveness, and understanding.

Financial goals as I head into retirement age become more about stream-lining, downsizing, and contentment than winning the lottery. Realisti-cally, I understand that the personal satisfaction of working and helping others will remain important to me. A goal of retiring to be able to read more just doesn’t excite me. My goal is to track carefully where and how I spend in order to understand what reduced income might mean.

Setting financial goals seems to tie nicely into career hopes and dreams. I have reached the tipping point in my career – that place where I no longer desire an even bigger job. Don’t get me wrong, I would gladly accept higher pay! I understand, though, the sacrifices made to having higher level posi-tions in the workplace. My attitude is one of “been there, done that.” My 2013 goal is to add value to my work by finding ways to work smarter, not harder; mentoring those just beginning their service to both community and the world; exploring avenues to enhance the lives of those customers I encounter; and, to be happy. My resolve is firm. Here’s to 2013!

Kathy Allen continues drawing on life experiences and sharing them through her mus-ings with the intention of writing the next Great American Novel. You can reach Kathy at

[email protected].

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my goal is to find common ground, incorporating communication, flexibility, forgiveness and understanding.

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By mendy PutmAn

Are you 55 years or older? Do you say, “I don’t need to go to the Senior Center! I’m not that old!” If you do, then you have the stereotypical perception about senior centers. But that’s not us! Take 5 minutes of your time, walk through the doors and you will be pleasantly surprised. Pilates, Yoga, Facebook, wood-carving and ballroom dancing are just a sample of great classes that are offered here at the center.

The Colorado Springs Senior Center is an active and vibrant center for adults of all ages in Colorado Springs (though special consideration is given to adults 55 years of age and older), offering 244 classes each 4-month trimester. Check our website for cur-rent class listings (www.csseniorcenter.com).

Your family members can join you for fun classes in art, computers, dance, exercise, health and lifelong learning, and a variety of educational classes. We also offer 65 social clubs, ranging from book clubs, to low-vision support groups, to hiking and skiing.

Take advantage of the clinic screening services, many offered at low or no cost to you, such as blood pressure checks, hearing and dental services, mas-sages, toenail trimming and physical therapy mini-sessions. For a $2 suggested donation to the Golden Circle Nutrition Program, you can join us for a deli-cious, healthy lunch, available to anyone age 60 and up and including your spouse. Everyone else can eat for only $6.50. With lunch and so many class offer-ings, it’s easy to have a fun day with your loved one.

Feeling adventurous? For the second year in a row, we will be taking a dog sledding trip in gorgeous

Breckinridge on Wednesday, February 20th. If that’s not your cup of tea, you might enjoy trips to concerts and plays or the new Colorado Springs Space Foun-dation Visitor Center. Call the Senior Center at 387-6000 for details on how to register for day trips.

We offer free publications, too: The Yellow Book pub-lished by the Area Agency on Aging, the Seniors Blue Book, the Senior Resource Council’s Housing Direc-tory, and the monthly newspaper Life After 50.

We urge you to check out the Colorado Springs Se-nior Center. It’s not just for “old people.” As everyone here knows, we aren’t “your grandmother’s senior center”—we are so much more! If you would like more information, please attend one of our Newcom-er Orientations. You’ll get a VIP presentation, tour of our facilities and answers to questions you may have.

Have you been to the amazing Colorado Springs Senior Center yet?

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Ask the DentistBy dr. AndreW hAll

Q: I keep hearing about CEREC technology. What is it? a: Ceramic Reconstruction, or CEREC, allows your dentist to use computer-aided design and manufacturing to create natural-colored, biocompatible restorations. The process can be completed in a single visit, which means fewer trips to the office, fewer injections, and no temporary crowns to come off at inconvenient times. You can be in and out of the office in as little as two hours!

Q: How does Invisalign work? a: A series of aligners are created just for you, and each one makes slight adjustments to tooth position. Over time, they cause the teeth to shift from their current position. After about two weeks, you switch to the next set of align-ers, and so on.

Q: I’m getting dental implants to replace missing teeth. Should I be scared? a: Dental implants are predictable and safe, with a suc-cess rate over 95%. A 3-D image of the empty spot is taken, which allows your dentist to evaluate the jawbone. He can perform a virtual procedure and create a computer-guided stent to assist in the placement. Since the jaw doesn’t have the same nerve clusters as teeth, many patients find the process hurts less than regular dental work.

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Troy’s aunt stayed by his side for much of his hospital stay. Unable to grasp her hand, Troy would curl his finger under the bracelet she wore.

How a traumatic brain injury changed one man’s life foreverBy Gisela Schmidt

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The brain: We think with it, but how often do we think about it? That grey matter is the source of our speech, movement, and personality. We can credit our brains with teaching us how to draw a flower, play the guitar, appreciate a joke, and even how to read this article. All of these benefits, and yet it’s protected by little more than a quarter-inch of bone. And no matter how thick-skulled your friends think you are, each of us is equally susceptible to a traumatic brain injury.

Of course, no one plans to be in an accident, but sometimes these things happen. Sometimes you or a loved one find yourself in harm’s way. Just ask Troy, a local resident who found himself in such a situa-tion and who has since started an online resource for victims, friends, and families.

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Just over half a year ago, Troy, 41, was leaving a local jazz club on his bicycle. As he turned his head for a moment to glance behind him, his movement caused the bike to swerve. It wasn’t much, but it was enough for his left handle to hit the wall, turning the wheel and flipping him over the handlebars, headfirst into a cement wall and onto the concrete.

Troy was rushed to the hospital with three skull fractures and numerous facial fractures, in addition to scrapes and bruises over much of his body. The doctors in the Trauma ICU told him later that his injury was a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that rated a 4.5 on the Glasgow Coma Scale. (To put that into perspective, anything under 9 is consid-ered severe.) Troy was slow coming out of the coma, where he lay for two weeks. His recovery was further hampered by pneumonia and other complications.

Surrounded by fam-ily, friends, and other community members—“God’s SWAT team,” as Troy affectionately refers to his support-ers—his recovery sped up, and after six weeks he moved from the hospital to Learning Services, an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Lakewood, CO. Work-ing with a speech pa-thologist, occupational therapist, and other individuals, and cheered on by the SWAT team, Troy accomplished in three weeks what often takes others many months or even years to achieve. From there, he moved to outpa-tient therapy.

Over the course of his recovery, and with the support of his doctors, Troy reduced his daily medication from 17 prescriptions to a handful of vitamins, and just four months after the accident, he was driving again. Troy still has occasional memory lapses, or “brain farts,” but they’re no worse than most people’s. And although crossword puzzles can be troublesome, Troy is adamant that he was never any good at them.

Traumatic Brain Injuries, or TBI’s, can range from mild to severe and affect an average of 1.7 million individuals per year. While many TBI’s are mild, there is no way to tell just by looking. All head injuries are potentially severe and should be monitored. Some symptoms may not ap-pear until days or weeks later.

A mild TBI may involve only a short loss of consciousness, as in the case of a concussion. A moderate to severe TBI, meanwhile, can manifest itself in a much more serious manner, such as in Troy’s case. Regardless of the appar-ent severity, all TBI’s affect thinking, sensation, language, and emotion, and these effects may last for months or even years. Less commonly, TBI’s can cause epilepsy and

increase future risk for conditions such as Alzheimer’s dis-ease, Parkinson’s disease, and other brain disorders.

While no trauma is ever expected, there are some pre-ventative measures you can take to reduce your risk of injury as well as to protect loved ones and strangers alike. Such measures include wearing a seat belt in the car and a helmet on a bike, maintain-ing good lighting

throughout your home, securing area rugs from unin-tended slipping, and keeping paths clear of clutter. You may also consider installing handrails along stairs and anywhere else that could be hazardous.

And if something does happen, know that you’re not alone. As you move through the recovery process, talk to your doctor about finding a local support group. Establish a routine, and stick with it. And most importantly, be pa-tient with yourself; focus on one thing at a time, and take breaks as needed.

Troy knows that a large part of the credit for his recov-ery—both in speed and extent—goes to his supporters. This community helped him immeasurably in his initial

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recovery and even still. Now he hopes to do the same for others finding themselves awash and overwhelmed in information and statistics.

More than being an intellectual resource, Troy is build-ing a community of survivors and their friends, where people can go to share their stories, learn from others and know that they are not alone. No one should go through this on their own. And if Troy has his way, no one will ever have to.

Just in time for warm weather and outdoor fun, March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Next month Market Treasury will feature an article on the many precautions you can take to stay safe, whether you’re trying to catch the balls flying at your head or dive away from them.

Gisela Schmidt is a freelance writer living in New York City and a regular—not to mention indispensable—contributing editor for Market Treasury.

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10% - Assault 16.5% - Struck By/Against

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Leading Causes of TBI

For more info on TBI’s, consult

cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury.Please “Like” and share Troy’s FB page,

facebook.com/tbivictimsandsurvivors.


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