geo wrote:In my case its readily apparent to me that it does nothing to help with clumsiness
In the past 7 months, I've tripped, slipped, and fallen 5 times...
Life is about fall precautions. I had a Client when she would fall she became really frighten. So was Okinawan. I had been playing for her on the iPad the Okinawan dances, her mother was a dancer for the court. I found some videos on falling, and how to get up. We also worked on how to move forward on the chair when sitting and move the upper body over the pelvis in getting up. In essence in aging it is about being able to bear weight, even if it is just to transfer from chair to bed etc. In Dr McDougall's Cath and I will Sue video, he made a point of sharing a recliner, he spent months in. They have recliners where they lift you up to help you get into a standing position. And if I am correct where he fell was in the bathroom, and I imagine it was on tile. In remolding to stay in place I put in a wood type floor/Pleiades which is can be wet, placed even in the bathroom. If the falling continues at the rate it is happening once a month, I would carpet my whole place, including the bathroom. I have though noticed my Client's that do fall often, are able to get up with only a few cuts and bruises. One is a 97 year old, that gardens with his walker and hangs ropes on structures/trees to help him. My Client's and their families give me inspiration to remind me, we are immortal beings having mortal experiences. I had on Client who was blind. His son set up poles with a rope attached, and he would hold on the robe to guide him from his bedroom to his recliner in the living room. He would pass the bathroom and kitchen. People want to stay in their homes. And it is all about preparation day by day, to die a young old.
The McDougall program didn't prevent me from hitting a curb, where I threw off the alignment of my Honda Fit. At first it thought it was just the tire, and whee. It turned out the impact pushed the frame back. The cost escalated from 900 to close to 3000. It took the insurance company short one day, of two weeks before viewing. I was so angry. Then I remembered a Client whose career had been in insurance and what she went through before passing. My heart immediately softened from the memory of my Client who had chemo for his prostate cancer, where it effected his pelvic floor, he developed water on the brain where they put a shank in his brain. The side effects were horrific. 97% of the tests are false positive. Living the McDougall lifestyle allows us to see the future, where forgiveness happens because with the McDougall Lifestyle we know what fights daily can be fought. We know the majority of people don't have the understanding of McDougall LIfestyle medicine. Every institution casts a large shadow. And we are clued into the medical.
The insurance company sent someone over from Maui to help with their back load, who was very kind, and I was renting a car (at this time it was 600 for two weeks), and the dealership where my car was being repaired said they would get me a loaner. In returning the loner, and going to dealership, my son kept reminding me the car might be a bigger car/even a van and I might not be able to drive it. I just went into my potato satiety, where I just responded i would say "No', if I felt I wouldn't be safe. Dropping me off he said call me before you leave. Well I called him and said, "It is a Honda Civic Sport with 15 miles."
And the moth cancer surgery on the side of my face, happened after the car accent. And it hasn't been as easy as projected. But it's healing progressing. Natural healing takes longer, the pain has been bearable and it is suggested it takes a year for the scar to normalize. My hair covers the wound where the scar won't be as noticeable.
Aloha, patty
. I also cut my hair very short so my grey is not as noticeable.
