can i help it if i have TCPH?  TYPICAL CP HUMOR.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carla MacInnis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:25 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Bobby's Fatigue


Okay, you guys! You're not helping!! :)


Kathleen Salkin wrote:

> So does my cat!
>
> "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > my dog likes trips to the fridge.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carla MacInnis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Bobby's Fatigue
>
> Bobby, are you taking the magnesium, son? The mag oxide (excellent for the
> ticker). Will help with your fatigue. Don't you have a dog you should be
> walking?
> Trips to the fridge don't count!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Carla
>
> "Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D." wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 2/25/02 10:26:50 AM, [log in to unmask]
writes:
> >
> > >It's really disheartening when your family/friends say, "it CAN'T be
THAT
> > >bad."  Yet, where is their frame of reference?  Either they take my
word
> > >for
> > >it, or they don't.  This has been very difficult for me too, as I'm one
> > >who
> > >does not like confrontation, and (unfortunately) am easily talked into
> > >believing the problem is in my "head", not in my spine.
> > >
> > My problem is not pain per se, but fatigue. I have lost a lot of
strength
> and
> > endurance in the past 3 years and it gets worse. No one is very
> sympathetic,
> > saying you need more excercise. I try but the ol' OOMPH just isn't there
> and
> > I baby myself by saying
> > "been there ... done that and have the stone bruises to prove it"!
> >
> > Bobby