So it has been a revelation, lately, to no longer have to try to be something I'm not, but to just be myself. And to do it blatantly, in everybody else's faces! Come what may. It's an unexpected kind of strength I've found, finally, here in old age.
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Pearl Pirie the mind strengthening with age is some compensation for the knees going, I find.
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Stan Burfield Yup. I'm lucky glucosamine works on mine. Feeling like a spring chicken these days.
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Barbara Green Stan Burfield Oh, I'm glad to hear it's working for you -- it's odd how it's great for some people and not for others. And you always seemed so very much yourself and so little interested in being anything else -- interesting! I think I ghosted around way too much, myself. It's good to tire of some things.
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Stan Burfield Right. Well, I was always myself. I just kept it to myself mostly. Now I don't care. Or, it's not that I don't care so much. It's more that I've become even more of myself, and demolished the walls around me at the same time.
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Stan Burfield Barbara Green About the glucosamine, in some people with osteoarthritis, their bodies have stopped producing glucosamine, which is necessary for joint cushioning. But there are a lot of molecules involved, and a lack of any one of the others would have the same result. The doctors believe glucosamine isn't really doing us any good, that it's just a placebo. But a placebo, once you stop taking it for a few days, wouldn't cause all the joints to begin seizing up and painfully scraping. That's nuts. They get that idea because when they study it, they give glucosamine to everybody with osteoarthritis, and so the results show, in general, only some impovement, the kind of results you would see from a placebo. What they need to do is study only the people it has an effect on, and they would see the effect is 100% on them. And 0% on the others.
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Barbara Green Stan Burfield I know. I recently told a physiotherapist that glucosamine was helping me and he looked at me and flatly stated, "There is NO evidence that it helps." Well, no, not unless you count evidence from someone standing in front of you telling you that she notices when she gorgets to take it, and notices again once she starts again -- and within a day or two, too.
Like · Reply · 4 January at 18:34
Stan Burfield Yeah. It's weird the stupidity of people who can't think for themselves. It's like they're worshiping something. I hate to say it like that but it's true. On the other hand, I've had doctors who ask me how much I take a day, so they can advise their other patients. They're obviously only getting their knowledge from us.
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Linda Eva Williams Glucosamine was a huge waste of money for me, but what works for one, may not work for another. I used to look askance at people who said they had allergies/reactions to what were, for me, benign, until the heart meds I've been put on made me (and not most people) sick. What an unhandy weakness to have.
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Donald Brackett But Stan....you Are someone else.!
Like · Reply · 4 January at 19:31
Stan Burfield What do you mean, Donald?
Like · Reply · 4 January at 19:33
Donald Brackett Now Stan, you know perfectly well that I only mean what I say. Only what I say and nothing else.
Like · Reply · 4 January at 19:34
Stan Burfield The problem is that from my point of view I can imagine several meanings for what you said. And I'm sure you didn't mean all of them.
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Stan Burfield For instance...
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Stan Burfield I'm NOT who I really am, but someone I'm not. Or I am who I really am plus someone else. Or I am everyone. Or who I think I am is a lie, but the one I don't think I am is the true me. Or...
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Carolyn Brown Sounds confusing.
Like · Reply · 5 January at 01:18
Stan Burfield Why so?
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Carolyn Brown I don't know, I'm not shy.
Like · Reply · 5 January at 01:24
Stan Burfield Ah. Yeah, a different life completely. I'm not shy anymore either. I'm getting a whif of what it's like.
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