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