CCSVI Theory, Pre-Dates Zamboni

A clear understanding of Multiple sclerosis has proved elusive for generations of doctors and scientists.

The first suggestion that there could be a vascular component to the disease dates back 180 years to Sir Robert Carswell from Glasgow. He was drawing an image of a post mortem sample of brain tissue from an MS patient and commented that "there appears to be vascular lesions here".

Dr Franz Schelling from Austria has been a lone voice for many years in promoting this theory and I spent an intriguing half hour with Franz as he drew the various venous sinuses on napkins at the CCSVI conference in Poland this year. It was Franz who convinced Paulo Zamboni to explore this field and the results of that collaboration has changed the world of medicine. The recent discovery of the importance of CCSVI has filled in many of the gaps in our understanding of the disease.


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A Day off, for the Unemployed ?

written by: Ray Helmers - Ray's Satirical Ways

Out-of-WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Labor Day.

A US federal holiday.

A festival for workers and their families.

A day off.

How do you celebrate if you have been jobless six months?

One year?

Two years?

Well, there’s always Macy’s. Or Sears. Or Best Buy.

You can bet there will be a Labor Day Sale.

A day to spend time spending money you don’t earn.

Or you could brush up on your interviewing techniques,

revise your resume, or formulate a new employment strategy.

Maybe Tweet or Facebook a witty message/post

to catch somebody’s attention.

You never know.

Someone with a job opening could take notice.

May I suggest these for starters?

HIRE ME 1

No politics.

No backstabbing.

And I have a few more brain cells left.

HIRE ME 2

No slacker.

No kiss-up.

And trust me, I don’t want your job.

HIRE ME 3

No felony charges.

No sexual harassment suits pending.

And I have my own insurance.

Trouble is, your Tweet will compete with more important ones.

From Kim Kardashian, Brittany, Beyonce…

So, what do the unemployed do on Labor Day?

Don’t know. But I’ll be doing some reckless napping.

Copyright © 2011 Ray Helmers. All rights reserved.

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LOOKING FOR THE NEXT BEST THING (OR AT LEAST A WORKING RESTROOM)

By Marc Fenton 

This week as I began to toss around ideas for topics to write about, I heard myself in my head sounding like a cut-rate stand-up comedian, with jokes beginning along the lines of: did you ever have to go the bathroom really badly and find the bathroom at the bar/restaurant (fill in the blank) isn’t accessible after all.  And then you had to a) ride your scooter home (if you were even near your home) because your scooter couldn’t fit through the door to the bathroom or b) take the water bottle out of your scooter and use it as a urinal (disgusting!) because your scooter couldn’t fit into to the “disability” space and it isn’t as though you can just walk the four feet separating you and the toilet.  But I couldn’t come up with a punch-line.  Simply put, the situation is not funny.

For those of us with MS and bladder control issues, one has to always think ahead; whenever venturing out into the world, one has to worry about the possibility of finding a place to pee.  You map out in your head the accessible bathrooms and become some kind of a restroom connoisseur. You know all the high (believe it or not, Old Navy on 6^th Avenue, clean and roomy) and low (Tompkins Square Park, too many homeless) end bathrooms in most of the city and keep a vague map in your head of where is best to empty your bladder.  Some have suggested I put together a handbook of sorts for people in my situation, to which I respond, “I really don’t want to learn more about this topic than I absolutely have to.  You know, too much information.”

'Nevertheless, Starbucks and Barnes and Noble, who for all intents and purposes are the closest thing the city has to public restrooms, can be lifesavers in a pinch. Movie and conventional theaters are pretty reliable, although it is in these places I’ve come across the worst of the worst: people who don’t want to wait on the longer public lines and dive into the disabled restroom for convenience and to keep me waiting, desperately needing to pee. Recently, I was at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway with my son to see Hair; I was about five feet away from the disabled rest room and the able-bodied young woman saw me coming and quick slammed the door in my face.  I am not typically prone to profanity but I fairly lost it on her when she came out a few minutes later.  On other occasions, people have thought nothing of using the disability toilet when other toilets are free. I guess they like the openness of the space. The new Yankee Stadium has disability stalls with grab bars but a scooter cannot fit inside.  Excellent planning, guys! 

And whenever possible, try to have a back-up plan. You never know when a toilet is going to be broken or simply unavailable and as you all know, when you gotta go you gotta go, which is why I’ve taken to discreetly carrying one of those portable urinals with me wherever I go.  Oh, the adjustments one has to make. 

If all else fails, feel free to stop by my place: 145 East 15 Street, #7A, New York, NY.  If I’m home and the bathroom is free, you’re most welcome. Just call first.

As my dad always said, “Keep fighting the good fight.”

Peace,

Marc

marc@empirelifecoaching.com


Marc Fenton is a 46-year-old male Life Coach living in New York City and coping with the effects of Multiple Sclerosis.  He uses an electric scooter to navigate the streets of NYC and the small apartment he shares with his family. He has had MS for over 20 years and reveals his personal experiences in MS in the Big City.

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Sharpening Your Comic Vision: Therapeutic Humor Focuses on Strengthening Emotional Health

By: Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D.

Just as our physical immune system protects us from toxins in our environment, our “psychological immune system” protects us from the toxins generated from psychological stressors we experience in the world around us. Research has shown that humor strengthens both our physical and psychological immune systems; it helps to sustain the psychological immune system by altering how we feel, think, and behave.

Cognitive Benefits

Humor helps break rigid thinking resulting in our ability to perceive the world more “realistically” and without distortions. Our emotional state is greatly influenced by our perception of the events around us. A stressor is not inherently stressful. The intensity of stress we experience is directly related to the way in which we perceive the stressor.

Shakespeare stated, “Nothing is good or bad. It is thinking that makes it so.” Because one person’s view of a particular stressor influences the impact of that stressor, a variety of people experiencing the same stressor may have vastly different reactions, depending on the meaning they place on the stressor. 

For example, someone who feels excessive anger often believes that the world must treat him “fairly,” and when it does not treat him so, he becomes angry. Humor helps adjust this particular belief system by providing a more realistic perspective on an “unfair world.”

Someone who experiences excessive anxiety often believes that she must perform well to be accepted or valued. When an environmental stressor challenges her performance, she experiences anxiety.

Humor, again, can provide a clearer perspective, placing her “performance” in a healthier relation to the specific environment so that the individual changes her thinking pattern from “I must perform to be okay” to “I would like to perform well, but I’m okay even when I don’t do as well as I hoped.”

Emotional Benefits

Humor not only relieves distressful feelings, but it also helps teach us that we have the ability to “manage” our emotional states. One can’t experience distressing emotions such as anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, or resentment and experience humor at the same time. You may have heard someone who is very angry say, “Don’t make me laugh. I want to be angry.” You cannot maintain a high level of anger and laugh at the same time.

When I asked one of my clients (who was very “dedicated” to her depression) what upset her about my humorous interventions, she replied, “When you make me laugh, I do not feel depressed.” My humor momentarily relieved some of her depression, which she seemed committed to maintaining! Humor and distressful emotions cannot occupy the same emotional/psychological space.

Since the experience of humor affects our emotions, we can learn to manage our emotional distress through humor. While humorous interventions may not remove chronic depression, they can – for a few moments, at least – relieve emotional upset, teaching us experientially that depression and other distressing emotions can be lessened or temporarily relieved when we experience humor.

Understanding the Elements of Humor

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