Old age and the stress of life has a way of making one pay. Hey, that rhymes!

Anyway, I read Hans Selye's Stress of Life as a very young man. He is(was)

a small Dutch scientist at McGill University who discovered cortisone. He

studied

the body's adaptation to disease and trauma. The last two chapters are

philosophical tenets stemming from his work. Bottom line is: reduce the

physical and emotional stress in ones life. They key concept of Selye's

that I still buy is that adaptive energy(life force, if you will) is given

to us in a finite quantity at birth. Once it is used up, the body goes and

we die. Unfortunately,

we use up alot of adaptive energy in the Stress of CP. This sounds like a

downer, but I believe it.



Bobby





>a brain transplant yes, i agree. i have not got anyone to donate a body yet.

>

>one of the tenetes (sp) of my faith is a new body.

>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Trisha Cummings [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]

>> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 10:40 AM

>> To:   [log in to unmask]

>> Subject:      Morning Wood

>>

>> Good Morning,

>>

>>         Oh, Denise - part of this is just getting old and a part is the

>> extra wear and tear your body has to deal with. I don't have CP but I am

>> disabled from years of serious physical abuse with damaged joints, broke

>> bones etc. I have found that sleeping on a heating pad or actaully I had

>> an

>> electric balnket under the sheet covering the mattress - helped. Hot

>> showers

>> in the morning, and shark cartledge

>> and glucosamine help rebuild the joints. I work with/for a gentleman with

>> CP

>> and these pills have helped with his hips and pain in walking. I have been

>> so incapacitated some mornings my poor Amber has had to help push my

>> carcass

>> out bed - I am like a turtle if I sleep on my back. I started falling

>> apart

>> at 38, the added stress for trying to care for Amber was the last straw

>> for

>> many of my parts that faithfully tried to do their part stuff regardless.

>> I

>> have found extra weight doesn't help and that making sure I don't do

>> things

>> which cause me to retain fluid - like eating salt helps and making sure I

>> do

>> the anti PMS stuff helps take a little strain off the parts. I need so

>> many

>> surgical corrections done - I told the doctor - that transplanting my

>> brain

>> sounded cheaper! Hope we have given you a few ideas to help.

>>

>>                                 Brightest Blessings

>>                                     Trisha