Cheryl Glaiser

Cheryl Glaiser grew up in the hills of Walnut Creek, California. She was an active child and loved to play in the hills and the creek in her back yard. She grew up in a dysfunctional family that included alcoholism, drug addiction, derogatory remarks and divorce. Her summer vacations were spent camping all over California. On those camping trips she learned to water ski and spent her summer vacations water skiing every chance she would get. She had no idea how water skiing would change her life.

She was the recipient of a total hip replacement by the time she was twenty-three years old. In 1985, only about ten thousand hip replacements were performed each year and very few on people her age. These days, half a million hip replacements are performed each year in the U.S. alone. The kind, loving care she received from healthcare professionals during multiple surgeries on her hip led her to seek a B.S. in Health and Safety and pursue an enduring career as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist.

The author loves to help people, thrived as a stay-at-home mom of two girls, and found her happily-ever-after with her husband of many years. When she isn’t spending time with family, she volunteers with various organizations. In Use it, Don’t Abuse it, the author takes us on a journey of surviving family dysfunction and self-esteem rebuilding. She believes that we each have a guardian angel guiding us, and that we must endeavor to live consciously, using but never abusing our words, our bodies, our families and our faith.