On or about: 04-10-08  22:52, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Senior Moments...  2A.

 AH>  unable to play the piano ever again.
 JB>  And how I sympathize with that!

 AH> I figured you would.  My own love of music has helped me get
 AH> through some rough patches, and I guess when he couldn't 
 AH> play the piano he had to find another way.  He also had six 
 AH> children... only two of whom lived longer than a decade.  

That's a double whammy that I have to identify with. I've looked forward to
raising a family, but those cards might have been revoked. When I hear a
tune that I enjoyed while daydreaming about days to come, it's a double
depressant. That might be a reason why I try to occupy myself so much to
take my mind off my situation.


 AH> Once upon a time alcohol was used as the anesthetic in
 AH> kitchen- table surgery... that's how my mother & her siblings had 
 AH> their tonsils removed.  You drank six bottles of beer in 
 AH> three days because you were in pain.  You reduced your 
 AH> intake as the pain lessened.  You also knew about possible 
 AH> side effects & took appropriate action.  Sounds reasonable 
 AH> to me in view of what I know about your medical history.  
 AH> You were able to put the situation in perspective.  :-)
 
That's also attributable to many patients bleeding out. Alcohol thins the
blood, and you're likely to clot like a hemophiliac. As much as I try to
"take it on the chin", I'm pretty grateful for modern analgesics
too.

 
 JB> The quick answer is to get drunk again.

 AH> Uh-huh.  I don't know whether or not he did that.
 AH> He came home from the pub roaring drunk at 2:00 AM quite 
 AH> routinely or went there occasionally... depending on who 
 AH> you ask.  The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.  ;-)
 
...Depending how often the storyteller was at his side, no doubt. But, it's
no wonder there's so much self medication and suicide with medical
conditions. I think it's testament to the human spirit how some thrive
despite deficits.

 
 JB>  attended. (Substance Abuse In Later Life)

 AH> This is the first I've heard of it... it sounds
 AH> interesting, though! One of the complaints I've heard from 
 AH> people in AA programs & suchlike is that they found it 
 AH> difficult to locate a group they could identify with.

I guess it could be a hit and miss, finding a troupe one might fit in like
an old coat. This program was implemented to serve the substance abuser,
that was least likely to attend an AA program, and regretfully, only
catering to senior citizens as the name implies. The impetus, was to inform
the clients about how their bodies are changing, and that the tolerance
that they once took for granted had already indicated the rails were
running out.

I rode dad's coattails, and as I had dropped the Morphone a couple years
earlier, they decided to let me attend. What an eye opener! Not for only
the science, but the mechanism some adopted as denial, or vehicles for
progress.
 
 
 JB>  where she interjected, "...And I'm addicted to food." It

 AH> Yes.  I commented years ago that just about everybody is
 AH> addicted  to something... and now Dr. Mate has expressed the same 
 AH> idea.  I was working in a small country school where there 
 AH> were only eight staff members present most of the time.  
 AH> Just before Xmas, at 8:30 AM, one of the Moms gave us a 24" 
 AH> platter of home made shortbread.  I took a single piece & put it in my
 AH> desk  drawer for later use, because I figured it would all be 
 AH> gone by recess.  I was right.  So who had eaten it??  Not 
 AH> me... and probably not the gal who could nibble on one 
 AH> cookie for twenty minutes.  That left six people, all of 
 AH> whom swore they'd put on weight if they even *looked* at 
 AH> food.  One of them claimed she got pregnant every time she 
 AH> had sex too.  She'd been married for ten years & had four 
 AH> kids. If you believe her, I have a bridge for sale in San 
 AH> Francisco!  Usually people think it's other people's 
 AH> addictions which are bad, while they don't recognize their 
 AH> own.  I like your aunt's openness & honesty regarding such 
 AH> matters.  :-)
 
Her, and her deceased husband were *large*. Last time here, her and her
daughter were making a concerted effort to not eat the fried foods and such
from menus, that you could tell they were attracted to out of comfort. To
her defence, her aunt and uncle (My GPs) were pretty large too, (Functional
obese, I think coins a term. ;-) but I don't recall much of her father. Her
mom was dead before I was born. Not to place blame, but the genetics to my
ancestry had a few lean winters to live through. The fat survived, and the
svelte struggled.


 AH> Some kids can make their Hallowe'en candy last a year.  I
 AH> was one  of them & so is Nora.  I'd prefer to believe I'm not 
 AH> "holier than thou" about it, though, because I've met far 
 AH> too many other people who think that way....  :-)

You must travel is sick circles, indeed!  Every kid knows, you
need to hoard as much as you can, and binge until your eyes turn to saucers
and turn in tight circles. You two just aint right! 

I remember the day, some of my nephew's friends expressed distaste for
sugar, and were excited about raw vegetables. I thought their parents must
have raised them on a different planet.



... James

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