Re: Weak Body.. Weak Mind

spumoni99 · ‎02-16-2019

@RescueLover wrote:

Hi! @Carmie 🤗

Very interesting! I will definitely look him up!

Name sounds familiar though. Was he an author?

@RescueLover He was a world famous physicist who was completely paralyzed, he could not even speak toward the end of his life. He has done too many things to list, google him. I am shocked you haven't heard of him.

RescueLover · ‎02-06-2022

Hi @Carmie

I’m sorry but once I saw Mr Hawking I could not read about him.

You’re talking to someone who can’t watch St Jude commercials or animal cruelty cases they show on tv. It makes me too sad.

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

@RescueLover wrote:

Hi! @Carmie 🤗

Very interesting! I will definitely look him up!

Name sounds familiar though. Was he an author?

@RescueLover

Are you joking here, or do you really not know who Steven Hawking is?

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

juanitalinda · ‎03-11-2010

@RescueLover

I am a bit confused about what you are actually trying to say. Many people cannot or do not exercise, but are still very alert.

Other people exercise their entire lives and still suffer from some form of dementia, many of which are greatly influenced by genetics.

I don't think that anyone disputes that exercise can reduce risk of Alzhemiers, and presumably other dementias.

However, it is ONE of many factors.

According to a researcher a Stanford:

“It is a common misconception that we have minimal control over our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. However, nearly half of the Alzheimer’s cases could have been prevented or delayed by modifiable factors, including lifestyle changes,” says Sarita Khemani, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery Hospitalist at Stanford University.

I interpret that to mean that exercise, diet, and other lifestyle changes MIGHT give you better mental and physical health as you age , they are certainly no guarantee.

There is a correlation ... yes ... But not an equivalence.

Given that, I am not sure what your point is.

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

Well said, @juanitalinda .

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@Mom2Dogs wrote:
@DottieBlue I don't think so....the doctor told him to use the weights when he was in the office last week, about his knee...that is when he was told he was losing strength in his legs and suggested the weights.

Today for the first time he used a knee brace all day at work. DH is 84, which I understand is not young but the knee made him walk like he was much older...shuffling his feet, not standing up straight....which made me crazy.

He came home from work and said he had very little pain today and was walking better...very odd.

The ortho doctor said if the pain was from his knee down, the issue was his back...from the knee up it's his hip...although the doctor would not xray the knee to find out for sure if the issue is JUST his knee.

Perhaps your husband has osteo arthritis in his knees. I can tell you it hurts really bad and can be crippling.

If that's the problem, he would need injections to combat the inflammation. Those injections work, until they no longer do. After that, only surgery will fix it.

I find it really weird that the Ortho won't rely on X-ray? Does he have X-ray vision?

Without X-rays or an MRI, the doctor is just guessing.

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

@shoesnbags wrote:
@RescueLover wrote:

Hi! @Carmie 🤗

Very interesting! I will definitely look him up!

Name sounds familiar though. Was he an author?

@RescueLover
Are you joking here, or do you really not know who Steven Hawking is?

@shoesnbags Not only does she not know who he is, she won't read about him b/c seeing a picture of him made her too sad ?!

@RescueLover You do not need to pity Mr. Hawking based on his appearance. He lived a long full-filling life as a brilliant physicist and cosmologist. He was married twice and was a father and grandfather. He was diagnosed with an early on-set slowly progressing motor neuron disease at age 21. He required full time nursing care. He was definitely an anomoly to your theory of weak body weak mind.