January 2, 2005
The Body Responds
My muscles are sore from the exercise of last week but it has been teaching me that not all pain is necessarily a bad thing and something to be immediately suffered over and grieved. It seems to be helping a bit in dealing with the pain in my left arm if my right arm is sore as well. I can't explain why that is except to say that the pain feels so similar now it's become difficult to distinguish between the aches and pains of PD stiffness and muscle pain because of exercise.
Odd way of looking at it, I know.
I feel very hopeful about the new year in a personal way. I watched a couple of movies tonight, they were old black and white cheeseball movies but I enjoyed them. One was Calypso Heatwave, which, by the way, featured a young Maya Angelou as a calypso singer(!) and the other was a Lon Chaney movie called West Of Zanzibar from 1928.
I am also reading Healing And The Mind by Bill Moyers. It's a series of interviews on the mind/body connection with various health professionals. I just started the book and I'm seeing that physicians aew aware of the mind/body connection but it seems a problem that they face is that insurance pays for the bare minumunm and the way it is set up, they are paid more if they can jam many patients into their schedules, not by time spent with each patient.
In reading this, it can be rather frustrating I suppose, but it highlights the greater need for the public to take more active initiative in their self-care and health.
Posted by Lalo on January 2, 2005 4:10 PM