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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
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