-=> 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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