actually bobby, i hope that is right. i can not see how my body would be at
say my grandmothers age. i hope i die first.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobby Greer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 11:48 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Morning Wood
>
> 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