Re: Favorite activities for feeling good

[Guest guest]

Zsolt,

Well stated, my friend, well stated. Do we really have to wait until

spring to hear from you again?

Mike

The Zsolt wrote:

dear pls-friends,

susan, thank you for posting your

list of activities. i am in total

agreement with your programme. in addition to the things

you listed, i

also meditate and try to get myself outside to breathe fresh air.

listening to beethoven helps, too -- his was an indomitable spirit

inside

a body that was psychologically and physically damaged.

don, did you ever meet with the

enkidu people about augmentative

communication devices? what did you learn? if you've

already written

about it, and i've missed your posting, please send it to me privately.

i'm glad to have recently read so

many positive postings about exercise.

i myself go to the warm water therapy pool four times each week

for

passive and active water therapy. i also do yoga and stretching

at home.

personally, i think that if we view exercise as a remedy or cure

for our

neurological challenges we're in for a lot of disappointment.

however,

if we view exercise as a way to enhance our well-being and create

a more

positive living environment, then we can only gain great benefit

from it.

in addition to any usefulness it provides in terms of mobility,

it is

also an aid to digestion, elimination, pain management, emotional

well-being, and psychological wellness. it also provides

a sense of

doing something for oneself, a very important benefit at a time

in our

lives when we are increasingly reliant on others, some of us more

extensively than others and occasionally in potentially humiliating

ways.

i believe it was dolores who mentioned

that even if a person cannot

'exercise' he or she can always do stretching exercises.

some years ago

a friend of mine taught wheelchair dance classes for the elderly.

i was

always amazed at how much movement she had those people doing while

sitting in a stationary wheelchair. and not only arms, but

feet, legs,

hips, torso, etc.

isabella, you've brought up a question

i have been meaning to ask. i

think this issue might have been addressed earlier in the year,

but don't

quite remember and so am going to iterate isabella's question about

muscle wasting. is anyone else having this symptom/sign?

my feet,

calves, shoulders, arms, and hands are all shrinking. it

is to the point

now where they are looking sickly as opposed to just thin.

lastly, i personally think laurel

had a good suggestion concerning the

recent spate of nasty messages when she suggested we not just hit

the

send button as soon as our messages are complete. after writing

a

message, i myself set aside each posting for several hours or even

several days, making sure to proof it well before sending.

sometimes

sentences that made sense when i wrote them aren't so clear when

i reread

them and i often find phrases that might easily be misconstrued.

i

realise this takes away some of the sense of informal 'chatting'

that

many of the members enjoy, but it does help alleviate unintentional

misunderstandings. it's also worth remembering that the messages

are

archived, so everything that is posted is retrievable. children,

grandchildren, spouses, doctors and attorneys can readily retrieve

the

things that have been posted. how do we want them to remember

us? as

nasty, mean-spirited people? or as warmhearted, helpful comrades?

for those of you frying up your

chanukah latkes, don't forget to smother

them with lots of sour cream. remember, it's all about fat,

the miracle

of fat, eight days of fat lighting the way in the darkness.

miracles

turned into yummy-ness! by the way, the applesauce is meant

as fibre to

help the fat through the system so don't shy away from it either.

for the rest of you, happy holidays

of your choosing.

until i blunder forth with more

questions in the spring, be well,

zsolt

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