You'll have to forgive me - I'm grouchy today!   "My head aches, my  
feet stink and I don't love Jesus..."  (cheers to anyone who can name  
that tune!)

Kat


On Jun 20, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Kendall D. Corbett wrote:

> Don't know; my guess is that the success rate for those of us over 30
> goes way down, so keeping an "unblemished record" is probably part of
> it.  If your neuro isn't as worried about having a little professional
> "acne" you're probably OK.  Janet talked to the person who called and
> was too stunned to ask why the upper age limit was 30.
>
> We're considering going to Detroit, as Wayne State has one of the
> better PM&R departments for dealing with aging CP'ers.  The department
> chair there was a co-author with Janet's surgeon on several papers on
> ITB therapy in adults with dystonic CP.  Too bad Colorado didn't
> recruit him at the same time they recruited the surgeon.  They both
> left UAB at about the same time.
>
> On 6/20/07, Kathy Salkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> OK the mind boggles at this.  Do they think that after age 30, CPs
>> can no longer be successfully "treated?"  I'm cynical enough to think
>> they want to keep their "successful" profile blemish-free.  Does this
>> mean that my neuro has to give up on me because I'm "too old."
>>
>> Pah!
>>
>> Kat
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>
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>> >
>> > 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
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>
> 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.
>
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