Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

JB>  Don't get me wrong. Palate is/was a smart cookie!  Sharp
JB>  as a whip, well researched, and solid in execution.


          Noted.  I'm taking your word for it because you obviously know a
lot more about Pilates than I do.  And don't get me wrong.  Although I may
express some cynicism as to how they're marketed I'm not dismissing his
ideas....  :-)



JB>  While waiting for a light, or on long stretches, I'll
JB>  catch myself using the thing as designed.


          Makes sense to me, using the principles along with whatever else
you happen to be doing at the same time.  Dallas & I know somebody with
a desk job who uses an exercise ball in place of a chair... and a
physiotherapist advised me to stand on my toes during my many daily walks
to & from the kitchen.  :-))



JB>  Likely, I just need to adjust my posture to give the
JB>  tail-bone a break, but I do find myself continuing to
JB>  shift the weight as the instructions explain.


          So the sore bumosis reminds you to do your exercises.  Good....  ;-)



AH>  Numbness *and* tingling... yes, that's what I had!  I
AH>  know it sounds weird to have both together, but you
AH>  obviously understand what I mean....  :-)

JB>  The explanation I remember, is that the nerves are in
JB>  the process of finding their new termination point. As
JB>  there is no nerve in a place there used to be - that's
JB>  the numb part. Because the nerve is either becoming
JB>  used to it's new finale, and desperately attempting to
JB>  become what it used to be - that's the tingly.


          Okay... this sounds similar to what you & Nora are
experiencing with regard to the current condition.  In Nora's case I can
guess when a particular joint is "waking up" because she says it
hurts a lot.  She also says she finds cold very painful at times, just as
my father did.  The reasons are different, of course, but now I'm wondering
if the pain in your hip is an extreme version of the tingling you had in
your injured finger.  I read somewhere once that an itch is a mild form of
pain... maybe the tingling is too!  And Dallas & I know from experience
how a wiring harness behaves when the ends haven't been joined up
correctly.  As you said, your brain may have some relearning to do....  :-)



AH>  Like you, we're trying to work smart....  :-)

JB>  What... There's an option? 


          Yes, there is.  Remember the donkey from ANIMAL FARM who kept
saying "I will work harder"?  Years ago I thought that way
because I'd been raised by folks who thought that way, but it's not my
natural thinking style.  In time I learned to "use my head to save my
feet", as an older waitress I'd worked with advised, and improve my
efficiency in other fields of endeavour too... [grin].



AH>  There are ways to figure out how a person's brain is
AH>  responding without extensive medical testing.  And
AH>  while they may seem like black arts, they may yield
AH>  more practical information in the long run....  :-)

JB>  I guess we grew up in an age, where the medical
JB>  profession was purported to be the panacea to all
JB>  knowledge. When there's an "I don' know." the illusion
JB>  disappears.


          Yes... but we have the opportunity to interact with the medicos
on an Adult/Adult level.  I still remember when prescription drugs weren't
identified on the containers used by the patients, and it was virtually
impossible for the general public to lay hands on a book or a magazine
about medical issues.  Then when Nora was in the primary grades the mothers
of her classmates stopped me on the street to ask questions like
"What's the Internet?"  Nowadays we don't have to shut up &
do as the doctor says unless we want to.  We can check out various sources
of information, as you did with your hip, and decide for ourselves what to
do.  When doctors can admit to what they don't know I respect them for
that, but I resent being told it's all in my head because they can't
explain it.  You know things they don't know about your body because you
are wearing it....  :-)




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+