Question for Mr. Doug Laidlaw
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From: news.chi.sbcglobal.net on 7 Aug 2008 22:20 Hi, If I am not being too forward, am curious to know if you know Rachel Naomi Remen MD personally or just from the internet. On her website, it was stated that she has had Crohns disease for 48 years. That is a long time, and I hope she can improve her condition. There are so many treatments available, and I am certain she must have sought out the best. Is she doing any better as time goes on. I wish her only the best and would be ever so happy to hear of anything positive. I realize, as you said, she manages her life best as she can with all her responsibilities and work schedules. Sincerely, Thank You Gail Michael
From: Doug Laidlaw on 8 Aug 2008 04:41 news.chi.sbcglobal.net wrote: > Hi, > > If I am not being too forward, am curious to know if you know Rachel Naomi > Remen MD personally or just from the internet. > On her website, it was stated that she has had Crohns disease for 48 > years. > That is a long time, and I hope she can improve her condition. There > are so many treatments available, and I am certain she must have sought > out the > best. Is she doing any better as time goes on. I wish her only the > best and would be ever so happy to hear of anything positive. I > realize, as you said, she manages her life best as she can with all her > responsibilities and work schedules. > Sincerely, > Thank You > Gail Michael > No, I don't know her personally. I have her book, "Kitchen Table Wisdom." In that she states that she was incapacitated from her teens or earlier, and was denied all the activities of a teenage girl. Eventually, she had an operation to have most of her bowel taken out. Infection got in, so they could not stitch her up. They simply covered up the surgical hole and let it heal itself. That was apparently standard procedure in cases of infection. The book is not indexed, so I can't find the chapter. Consider yourself lucky! She is now head psychiatrist at a cancer hospital in the U.S. I am in Australia and have never been to the U.S. The book was written in 1996, and reprinted in 2003. The cover notes say that to an Australian reader, the book is like Albert Facey's "A Fortunate Life" That is the unlettered autobiography of a man born in 1894 in Victoria, one of six children. His father died on the Western Australian goldfields when he was under eight (he started work as a farm hand at that age,) and his mother left the children in the care of a grandmother shortly afterwards. He lived through the Great Depression and World War One, fought in the hell of Gallipoli, where he was severely injured, and died in February 1982. He writes: 'I called it “A Fortunate Life” because I truly believe that is what I had'. Would that there were more with his outlook! Doug Laidlaw.
From: news.chi.sbcglobal.net on 8 Aug 2008 21:28 Thank you so much, Mr. Laidlaw. But a fortunate life with having to live with a bag inside could be made an exhilirating life with no bag and no crohns. To me, it is heartbreaking to live with crohns without the advantage of at least knowing the cause. It does not negate the illness always, but understanding has its advantages. Of course circumstances change, i.e. divorce, death of person causing the illness, etc. etc. can negate the illness naturally. Once the mind is free of the person on stimulants, there is what is called "remission" Actually it is removal of the cause. But in today's thinking, anti-depressants are for all reasons, which make many people vulnerable to many others also on a stimulant. Do you have any idea how many use stimulants, it is so accepted. Thanks for the update, I was hoping for a no surgery answer, but that is part and parcel of this very weird, stupid illness that has no answer to its simpleness and yet complexity. I cannot blame people that say marijuana helps their pain. It probably does. Now the politicians want to make having 1/4 lb. marijuana legal so that the courts are not tied up with this heavily used offense. Next thing is everyone will be on the bandwagon and go for a 1/4 pound legal amount of marijuana. It will be every man on marijuana, next thing we know. Gail Michael "Doug Laidlaw" <doug(a)dougshost.invalid> wrote in message news:redtm5-f1f.ln1(a)dougshost.douglaidlaw.net... > news.chi.sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If I am not being too forward, am curious to know if you know Rachel >> Naomi >> Remen MD personally or just from the internet. >> On her website, it was stated that she has had Crohns disease for 48 >> years. >> That is a long time, and I hope she can improve her condition. There >> are so many treatments available, and I am certain she must have sought >> out the >> best. Is she doing any better as time goes on. I wish her only the >> best and would be ever so happy to hear of anything positive. I >> realize, as you said, she manages her life best as she can with all her >> responsibilities and work schedules. >> Sincerely, >> Thank You >> Gail Michael >> > No, I don't know her personally. I have her book, "Kitchen Table Wisdom." > In that she states that she was incapacitated from her teens or earlier, > and was denied all the activities of a teenage girl. Eventually, she had > an operation to have most of her bowel taken out. Infection got in, so > they could not stitch her up. They simply covered up the surgical hole > and > let it heal itself. That was apparently standard procedure in cases of > infection. The book is not indexed, so I can't find the chapter. > Consider > yourself lucky! > > She is now head psychiatrist at a cancer hospital in the U.S. I am in > Australia and have never been to the U.S. The book was written in 1996, > and reprinted in 2003. > > The cover notes say that to an Australian reader, the book is like Albert > Facey's "A Fortunate Life" That is the unlettered autobiography of a man > born in 1894 in Victoria, one of six children. His father died on the > Western Australian goldfields when he was under eight (he started work as > a > farm hand at that age,) and his mother left the children in the care of a > grandmother shortly afterwards. He lived through the Great Depression and > World War One, fought in the hell of Gallipoli, where he was severely > injured, and died in February 1982. > > He writes: 'I called it "A Fortunate Life" because I truly believe that is > what I had'. Would that there were more with his outlook! > > Doug Laidlaw.
From: Nom dePlume on 9 Aug 2008 11:01 "news.chi.sbcglobal.net" <kureforcrohns(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:sq6nk.16189$cW3.13940(a)nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com... > Thank you so much, Mr. Laidlaw. But a fortunate life with having to > live with a bag inside could be made an exhilirating life with no bag and > no crohns. To me, it is heartbreaking to live with crohns without the > advantage of at least knowing the cause. > It does not negate the illness always, but understanding has its > advantages. Of course circumstances change, i.e. divorce, death of person > causing the illness, etc. etc. can negate the illness naturally. Once > the mind is free of the person on stimulants, there is what is called > "remission" Actually it is removal of the cause. But in today's > thinking, anti-depressants are for all reasons, which make many people > vulnerable to many others also on a stimulant. Do you have any idea how > many use stimulants, it is so accepted. Thanks for the update, I was > hoping for a no surgery answer, but that is part and parcel of this very > weird, stupid illness that has no answer to its simpleness and yet > complexity. I cannot blame people that say marijuana helps their pain. > It probably does. Now the politicians want to make having 1/4 lb. > marijuana legal so that the courts are not tied up with this heavily used > offense. Next thing is everyone will be on the bandwagon and go for a > 1/4 pound legal amount of marijuana. It will be every man on marijuana, > next thing we know. > Gail Michael Leaving aside for the moment the fact that we disagree on the subject of medication, may I ask you one question? Why do you use "stimulant" and "antidepressant" interchangeably? These are two different categories of medication, with very different effects on the brain. They are definitely not equivalent, in mechanism, or effect. -- Nom dePlume, Ph.D. Why, yes, in fact, I am a rocket scientist. Find my book, Medicines for Mental health, and free drug information, at www.MentalMeds.org =====
From: news.chi.sbcglobal.net on 9 Aug 2008 14:44 No time to write at the moment, but anti-depressants and stimulants have one thing in common. They both can transmit harm by the mind to a person known to them. Only difference is one is legal and others are illegal, but that does not change their mode of operation in transmitting harm. I know you will disagree, but if not for that feature, I would not care if the whole country were saturated with marijuana, cocaine, etc. . The unfairness of the situation is that innocent people are harmed, rarely the user of the stimulant. Gail Michael "Nom dePlume" <meds(a)mentalmeds.org> wrote in message news:g7kbfq0bjk(a)news3.newsguy.com... > "news.chi.sbcglobal.net" <kureforcrohns(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:sq6nk.16189$cW3.13940(a)nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com... >> Thank you so much, Mr. Laidlaw. But a fortunate life with having to >> live with a bag inside could be made an exhilirating life with no bag and >> no crohns. To me, it is heartbreaking to live with crohns without the >> advantage of at least knowing the cause. >> It does not negate the illness always, but understanding has its >> advantages. Of course circumstances change, i.e. divorce, death of person >> causing the illness, etc. etc. can negate the illness naturally. Once >> the mind is free of the person on stimulants, there is what is called >> "remission" Actually it is removal of the cause. But in today's >> thinking, anti-depressants are for all reasons, which make many people >> vulnerable to many others also on a stimulant. Do you have any idea >> how many use stimulants, it is so accepted. Thanks for the update, I >> was hoping for a no surgery answer, but that is part and parcel of this >> very weird, stupid illness that has no answer to its simpleness and yet >> complexity. I cannot blame people that say marijuana helps their pain. >> It probably does. Now the politicians want to make having 1/4 lb. >> marijuana legal so that the courts are not tied up with this heavily used >> offense. Next thing is everyone will be on the bandwagon and go for a >> 1/4 pound legal amount of marijuana. It will be every man on >> marijuana, next thing we know. >> Gail Michael > > Leaving aside for the moment the fact that we disagree on the subject of > medication, may I ask you one question? Why do you use "stimulant" and > "antidepressant" interchangeably? These are two different categories of > medication, with very different effects on the brain. They are definitely > not equivalent, in mechanism, or effect. > > -- > Nom dePlume, Ph.D. > Why, yes, in fact, I am a rocket scientist. > > Find my book, Medicines for Mental health, and free drug information, at > www.MentalMeds.org > > ===== >
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