Re: Dyeing Your Hair in the Kitchen Sink

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:43:42 -0500, "Evelyn" <evelyn.ruut@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:45:28 -0800, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Rumpelstiltskin wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:06:56 -0500, "Evelyn" <evelyn.ruut@xxxxxxxxx>

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Thumper a broken shoulder is the most hellish thing you can imagine.
I
broke mine a couple of years ago and will never have full use of the
shoulder again. But a really good physical therapist, and following a
regimen of special exercises can definitely bring back a lot of your
friend's range of motion. My shoulder was broken almost 5 years ago
and I
am still doing the range of motion exercises. It makes a world of
difference. When I stop, I notice it tightens up again.



I messed up my right-arm rotator cuff a decade or so ago.
I don't do the exercises any more, but the shoulder gets
uncomfortable occasionally, and I grab my right shoulder
with my left arm and punch upward and outward with my
right arm to loosen things up. I also have to do that
before I reach for anything heavy on a high shelf. I
notice the shoulder more at night more than in the
daytime.

My right arm has seen some hard times. I broke it when
I messed up my rotator cuff, but that was the third break.
I have tracks, from the first break, on the inside of my right
arm going from three inches bodyward below my wrist to
two inches handward below the elbow. The first break
was the bad one, that was a compound fracture, with
broken bones sticking out.


I tore my rotator cuff about 15 years ago, had surgery, and a lot of
physical therapy. The instruction that I received made a great deal of
sense. There are three sets of muscles that hold the rotator cuff in
place and as long as these three muscle sets are healthy and strong, it
shouldn't be giving trouble. There are two exercises for each muscle
set, one to contract each muscle and one to expand each muscle.

I cannot claim to be religious in continuing these exercises, but when
it starts giving me trouble, I go back to them and it seems to help. It
takes about 15 mins per day and requires only light weights and/or
elastic tubing.


I well remember those elastic things, and the awful
physical therapy. My rotator cuff now gives me far less
grief than continued exercises would give me. I had to
do exercises when I had my knees replaced, too. I did
the exercises, but it's hard for me to say what did most
good, doing the exercises, or just getting out and walking.
I suspect the latter, but I guess the stretching exercises
might have been necessary to set me up for getting out
and walking a lot.

Walking is enjoyable because you get to see the world
pass by. Exercise is boring and tedious because you're
focussing on the exercise. Even if your "exercise" is
walking, the kind of walking I see people doing as exercise
makes me feel sorry for them - it can't be enjoyable to do
that. "Enjoyable" is a consideration that seems difficult for
many physical therapists and fitness types to understand.
They sometimes say they get a "rush" from the exercise,
but that all seems too happy happy joy joy to me. One
might as well say Auschwitz can be enjoyable if you have
the right attitude. It can be, I guess, but you'd have to
have such a good attitude that you should be in a mental
institution. Some people perhaps can deceive themselves
into believing the impossible all their lives, particularly
Christians. Less deluded people might do it for a while
until they freak out at the unnaturalness and stressfulness
of it all. Then maybe they'll put on 300 pounds overnight
like Kirstie Allie after she couldn't tolerate Jenny Craig
anymore, even for all the money they were paying her to
stick with it as an example to people who have to pay
Jenny Craig rather than get paid.

Here's poor Kirstie last year:
http://tinyurl.com/c6g5xl

I wonder how long Valerie Bertinelli will last. I hear
they're also tapping Queen Latifa, who's always been
a big woman but a very attractive and engaging one.



There is far too much pressure put on women to be thinner than they should.
I think that women in the 1950's were a more natural weight, rather than
today. I am not saying I think people should be FAT, but a little padding
keeps the wrinkles away, and looks healthier.
--
Ye, Kirstie allie has actually always had a weight problem. Even when
she was supposedly at her natural weight, her *** was huge for her
body. I've always had a problem with weight also and kept it in check
when younger by constantly exercising and not eating very much. When
not playing a sport I was going to the gym. After memberships in too
many clubs to count I finally had to admit that I hated exercising. in
these places. Now I'm back to a 1200 calorie a day diet because with
my arthritis, walking is even limited and I'm still on low dose
Prednisone. It's no fun constantly fighting to stay thin and 1200
calories a day is barely eating.

It is correct though that my face has hardly any wrinkles because I
have been overweight much of my life.
Thumper
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