C-PALSY Archives

Cerebral Palsy List

C-PALSY@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Cerebral Palsy List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:47:00 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (123 lines)
you just do not understand that if you got cp, you
can't have anythink else. remember according to the
government doctor, i can not be injured becouse i have
cp. "super gimp" 
--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> My neurologist's nurse has me go over my entire med
> list every time
> I'm there.  It's kind of a pain, but that way we're
> clear about meds
> and avoid errors.  We're working on the right
> med/dosage level for my
> spasticity, so the caution is especially warranted. 
> He's mentioned a
> baclofen pump, but I think we'll try oral meds for
> about another 6
> months as that'll be about a year.  If I do
> eventually go with a pump,
> at least I know of a good surgeon for it! ;-{)}
> 
> 
> On another note, I mentioned that Janet was to have
> an appointment
> with the adult CP clinic in Denver two weeks ago,
> but they called and
> said that we are too old!  The age range they're
> working with
> presently is 18 - 30, and we're 46.  So, is the
> theory that people
> over 30 don't have CP, or is it that people over 30
> with CP are part
> of the geriatric population!?!  It'd be nice if
> people over 30
> couldn't have CP, because then all our other
> ailments could be treated
> without that "complicating factor!"  I DON'T want to
> consider that my
> beautiful bride and I are geriatric cases!
> 
> 
> On 6/19/07, Kathy Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > As some of you may recall, I had surgery last week
> and because they
> > gave me two meds together, my blood pressure
> plummeted down to a
> > really low level.  I went back to the doctor today
> to have the
> > surgical staples removed and they asked me what
> medications I was on
> > (normal procedure when one goes to a doctor
> nowadays).  Well she
> > started to put in Nifedipene and turned and looked
> at me and said,
> > "But it says here that you take Procardia!"  I
> almost fell off my
> > chair because I had told them when I went there a
> month and a half
> > ago that my GP had switched my BP med.
> >
> > Oy vey ....!
> >
> > (BTW, the staple removals was painless and the
> implanted ear is doing
> > fine.  Now all I have to deal with right now is a
> sinus drainage
> > problem which the doctor assured me is normal).  I
> get connected on
> > July 10 - I can't wait!
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY
> list, go here:
> >
> >
>
http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY
> list, go here:
> 
>
http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy
> 



       
____________________________________________________________________________________
Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search 
that gives answers, not web links. 
http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC

-----------------------

To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here:

http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy

ATOM RSS1 RSS2