I can help with these, too.  If you don't want to put these profiles on your
website, Carla, I could set one up just for this purpose.  What do you
think?

    Kathy S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carla MacInnis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Personal Profiles - CP and Aging


> Perhaps you and Deri could work together
>
> I seriously think we should look at doing this as we'd be helping those
who
> come after us, or those who are in the early stages of what we oldsters
are
> experiencing now. I've followed the threads on falling and I can say that
> I've sustained only one serious falling injury, and that had nothing to do
> with cp - I can thank a black cat for my dislocated elbow back in 85.
>
> Drugging us is not the answer. We could focus on our exercise regimens,
> diet, even alternative protocols (such as I've used with great result for
> years, while remaining, for the most part, "doctor drug" free) For those
of
> us who are on medications that directly relate to cp and aging management,
> we need to identify them and explain why we are taking them, and for how
> long. Those sorts of things would be helpful.
>
> Also helpful would be lifestyle issues - our eating patterns, our sleeping
> patterns, recreation, social time, coping skills at work, etc. Even an
> exploration of the psychological impact of our "dis"abling condition would
> be important.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Carla
> http://www.brunnet.net/terrier
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Aging with C.P.
>
>
> > I am game and I volunteer as editor, if you so wish, but Deri could
> probably
> > put
> >  it in a more presentable form.
> >
> > Bobby
> > >What say you all?
> > >
> > >Cheers!
> > >
> > >Carla
> > >http://www.brunnet.net/terrier