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