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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 28-Oct-2015 07:54 <=-
 DAG> Re: Re: pushing on
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Oct 12 2015 17:42:10
 
part 2 continues...  ;)

 DAG>> The progress is getting better rapidly.  I'm back up to my normal
 DAG>> recovery and performance curve on running, almost.
 NB>> Sounds very good... :)
 DAG> Ack.  We'll see how well I'm able to pick that curve back up when
 DAG> the bronchitis is totally gone.  I'm gonna try a bike ride today and
 DAG> then a run tomorrow.  I hope it doesn't go too horribly.

Hopefully you didn't lose too much ground... :)   Are you getting decent
weather for outdoors activities now...?

 NB>> In the meantime, you are doing the exercises the PT gave you for it,
 NB>> anyway, right...?  Too bad you have to wait so long....
 DAG> Um.  I've been a little less-than-vigilant about this.  I've let the
 DAG> multiple reschedulings get me a little bit down in the dumps about it
 DAG> and haven't kept with it so well.  I definitely need to knock that crap
 DAG> off, too.  When I'm doing other physical things, though, my physical
 DAG> therapy fits perfectly into the routine, though, so with the bike ride
 DAG> today it should work well. 

I'd guess that if you did even just the PT exercises, you'd get a mood
boost, as well as not losing ground physically... you'd at the very
least have a sense of accomplishment on your own to balance out the
frustrations of the reschedulings... ;)

 NB>> I've heard that tale, too... and I'll buy the crutch aspect... ;)  From
 NB>> the outside, though, it doesn't look like it does much for the stress
 NB>> really, except as something that the person thinks is helping...
 DAG> I haven't seen the studies, but my roomie who is also a massive
 DAG> trove of pharmaceutical information as well as that about many abused
 DAG> and research chemicals has quoted the ones about how nicotine affects
 DAG> the body's ability to handle stress.  I should get some more detailed
 DAG> info from him.  Except that'll make me want to smoke.

Some studies seem to be slanted towards the desired result(s)... And I
suspect that there was less quantitative proof of stress-relief, and
more anecdotal...  But, even if there were some physical proof (lowered
blood pressure, etc), there are enough really bad side effects to not
really make it a good option/drug...  

 DAG> The psychological bit of it can't be ignored, though, especially if
 DAG> there's a neuro-pharmalogical basis for things being reinforced.
 DAG> I'd never pick up that filthy habit again if I'd go back.  ;) 

Lots of things we know better in hindsight, after all... :)  My little
sister was finally able to kick the habit... after having previously
kicked a cocaine addiction.... she gives all the credit to God having
delivered her from both addictions, and for keeping her clean ever
since... :)

 NB>> [shaking head]  Quite short-sighted...  Are they decent docs
 NB>> otherwise...?  or are you just stuck with what you've got despite
 NB>> them not being all that good...
 DAG> All of the ones that I've had here have seemed very competent for
 DAG> the most part, yes.  Much better than the ones that were employed by
 DAG> the VA in Bismarck, to be sure.  It's the system itself that seems to
 DAG> be broken. 

Good, on the first...  and, a shame on the second.... From what I've
heard, AZ is pretty bad, too... I've not heard too much bad about the
way the VA runs here in upstate NY, though...  But, the bigger a system
is, the harder it is to fix things when things get broken.....

 DAG> All of the issues that I've had have been dealt with very
 DAG> well once I'm actually in to get them handled for the most part,
 DAG> though.  Unless, of course, that bit has to deal with prescriptions
 DAG> being sent out.  If I were a bit closer to the inner city and could
 DAG> pick them up myself it wouldn't be so bad, but...  :P Moar soon.

Another thing that goes back to the lack of suitable transportation and
of ability to travel well on public transport...  So, your meds are
being filled by the VA pharmacy...?  which is at the VA building/complex
in the inner city...?  Is that where you see your docs, too...?  And is
there any way to facilitate picking meds up while there for doctor
visits if that is the case...?

ttyl        neb

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