Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill, PLEASE don't stop the humor...keep it coming. I really do laugh out loud. I know there have been studies to show the benefit of humor and I think the medical community is taking note as well. Recently my son was in the hospital for surgery and was in the ICU post-operatively. Clowns came into the ICU and stopped at each bedside to do a magic trick or tell a joke, whatever it took to get a smile. It was a great diversion and it made us all a little more relaxed. Missy Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill, PLEASE don't stop the humor...keep it coming. I really do laugh out loud. I know there have been studies to show the benefit of humor and I think the medical community is taking note as well. Recently my son was in the hospital for surgery and was in the ICU post-operatively. Clowns came into the ICU and stopped at each bedside to do a magic trick or tell a joke, whatever it took to get a smile. It was a great diversion and it made us all a little more relaxed. Missy Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill; You should be writing for the papers - or medical journals.... I am so glad we have your talents here - they certainly are not wasted on us, but I think many more could benefit from your talent. Lets meet in the Bay Area - hopefully next week while Duff is here.... ~guin Humor Me, Humor You All: Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize that these posts are very serious. Humor is becoming an increasingly important tool medically in the treatment of physiological ailments as well as psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of the Saturday Review, published his personal experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. The studies have even gone so far as to propose that regular and deep laughter can help in the body's fight to keep cancer at bay. Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the human immune system. Still those of us who believe in the preventative and curative powers of laughter are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter more as an added component and not the root of medical good. All of us in this group have dealt with physical problems and the natural attendant ones that come with living on the edge. Humor may be our only refuge in times of worry and our only defense against depression. I have been doing my silliness since junior high and my immune system has rarely failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have only been depressed one time in my life, and that was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I tell people that I do not suffer from depression--I'm a carrier. So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the full length mirror by the bathroom shower. From California where the difference between farce and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't true and everyone wants to believe that satire is true. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill; You should be writing for the papers - or medical journals.... I am so glad we have your talents here - they certainly are not wasted on us, but I think many more could benefit from your talent. Lets meet in the Bay Area - hopefully next week while Duff is here.... ~guin Humor Me, Humor You All: Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize that these posts are very serious. Humor is becoming an increasingly important tool medically in the treatment of physiological ailments as well as psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of the Saturday Review, published his personal experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. The studies have even gone so far as to propose that regular and deep laughter can help in the body's fight to keep cancer at bay. Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the human immune system. Still those of us who believe in the preventative and curative powers of laughter are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter more as an added component and not the root of medical good. All of us in this group have dealt with physical problems and the natural attendant ones that come with living on the edge. Humor may be our only refuge in times of worry and our only defense against depression. I have been doing my silliness since junior high and my immune system has rarely failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have only been depressed one time in my life, and that was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I tell people that I do not suffer from depression--I'm a carrier. So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the full length mirror by the bathroom shower. From California where the difference between farce and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't true and everyone wants to believe that satire is true. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi Bill, Just wanted to tell you that you helped me too when I needed it. you remember me don"t you. Lynn from Florida Humor Me, Humor You All: Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize that these posts are very serious. Humor is becoming an increasingly important tool medically in the treatment of physiological ailments as well as psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of the Saturday Review, published his personal experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. The studies have even gone so far as to propose that regular and deep laughter can help in the body's fight to keep cancer at bay. Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the human immune system. Still those of us who believe in the preventative and curative powers of laughter are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter more as an added component and not the root of medical good. All of us in this group have dealt with physical problems and the natural attendant ones that come with living on the edge. Humor may be our only refuge in times of worry and our only defense against depression. I have been doing my silliness since junior high and my immune system has rarely failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have only been depressed one time in my life, and that was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I tell people that I do not suffer from depression--I'm a carrier. So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the full length mirror by the bathroom shower. From California where the difference between farce and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't true and everyone wants to believe that satire is true. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi Bill, Just wanted to tell you that you helped me too when I needed it. you remember me don"t you. Lynn from Florida Humor Me, Humor You All: Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize that these posts are very serious. Humor is becoming an increasingly important tool medically in the treatment of physiological ailments as well as psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of the Saturday Review, published his personal experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. The studies have even gone so far as to propose that regular and deep laughter can help in the body's fight to keep cancer at bay. Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the human immune system. Still those of us who believe in the preventative and curative powers of laughter are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter more as an added component and not the root of medical good. All of us in this group have dealt with physical problems and the natural attendant ones that come with living on the edge. Humor may be our only refuge in times of worry and our only defense against depression. I have been doing my silliness since junior high and my immune system has rarely failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have only been depressed one time in my life, and that was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I tell people that I do not suffer from depression--I'm a carrier. So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the full length mirror by the bathroom shower. From California where the difference between farce and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't true and everyone wants to believe that satire is true. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill, I think you've accumulated enough credits to be promoted to junior journeyman comedian. Thanks for the laughs. in St. Louis --- billmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: > All: > > Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my > attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the > kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize > that these posts are very serious. Humor is > becoming an increasingly important tool medically in > the treatment of physiological ailments as well as > psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the > intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of > the Saturday Review, published his personal > experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, > humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical > propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. > The studies have even gone so far as to propose that > regular and deep laughter can help in the body's > fight to keep cancer at bay. > > Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone > from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. > But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major > stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to > be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the > human immune system. Still those of us who believe > in the preventative and curative powers of laughter > are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter > more as an added component and not the root of > medical good. > > All of us in this group have dealt with physical > problems and the natural attendant ones that come > with living on the edge. Humor may be our only > refuge in times of worry and our only defense > against depression. I have been doing my silliness > since junior high and my immune system has rarely > failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very > few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have > only been depressed one time in my life, and that > was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I > tell people that I do not suffer from > depression--I'm a carrier. > > So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric > (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get > sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't > think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) > humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. > Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the > full length mirror by the bathroom shower. > > From California where the difference between farce > and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't > true and everyone wants to believe that satire is > true. > > Bill __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bill, I think you've accumulated enough credits to be promoted to junior journeyman comedian. Thanks for the laughs. in St. Louis --- billmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: > All: > > Thank you for all the off-forum compliments on my > attempts at being funny. I really do appreciate the > kind words, but I think many of us fail to realize > that these posts are very serious. Humor is > becoming an increasingly important tool medically in > the treatment of physiological ailments as well as > psychological ones. Ever since Norman Cousins, the > intellectual (And don't you forget it!) editor of > the Saturday Review, published his personal > experiences with humor as therapy forty years ago, > humor has increasingly been viewed by the medical > propfession in muych the same way as is exercise. > The studies have even gone so far as to propose that > regular and deep laughter can help in the body's > fight to keep cancer at bay. > > Well, I doubt that my drivel will ever cure anyone > from anything, except maybe from reading my e-mails. > But humor is absolutely acknowledged as a major > stress reliever, and stress is considered by many to > be an underlying cause of many breakdowns in the > human immune system. Still those of us who believe > in the preventative and curative powers of laughter > are growing in numbers, something that sees laughter > more as an added component and not the root of > medical good. > > All of us in this group have dealt with physical > problems and the natural attendant ones that come > with living on the edge. Humor may be our only > refuge in times of worry and our only defense > against depression. I have been doing my silliness > since junior high and my immune system has rarely > failed me. I do not get colds or the flu with very > few exceptions over the past fifty years. I have > only been depressed one time in my life, and that > was as a post-operative side effect of my meds. I > tell people that I do not suffer from > depression--I'm a carrier. > > So unless someone wants me to quit the sophomoric > (I'm sick of being a sophomore. I'd like to get > sent back to where I was a fresh man, but I don't > think this body can handle those slaps anymore.) > humor, I'll continue. We all need to laugh more. > Well maybe not that much more. I did take down the > full length mirror by the bathroom shower. > > From California where the difference between farce > and satire is that everyone knows that farce isn't > true and everyone wants to believe that satire is > true. > > Bill __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 ----- Original Message ----- From: " Wilkinson " > I think you've accumulated > enough credits to be promoted > to junior journeyman comedian. : I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's always telling me to " take a hike. " As for being a comedian, there's a " stand-up comedy " joke here that an unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from making. (Martha still giggles at the thought, however.) From California where dairyworkers who make butter are called churneymen. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 ----- Original Message ----- From: " Wilkinson " > I think you've accumulated > enough credits to be promoted > to junior journeyman comedian. : I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's always telling me to " take a hike. " As for being a comedian, there's a " stand-up comedy " joke here that an unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from making. (Martha still giggles at the thought, however.) From California where dairyworkers who make butter are called churneymen. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hello Bill;I just wanted to tell you my friend (and i don't mean it lightly) that when I was on the end of my rope in 2001 may, when i first joined this group, your jokes were the reason i had to smile and that was about the only time i didn't think of suicide (i was on anti depressants which caused the suicidal thoughts according to the shrink). you have enlightened a lot of peoples lives without noticing. I hope you don't mind me stealing a line from star trek to say how i feel, which is" I am and always be your friend, Live long and prosper".Thanks for all the smiles and happiness you have contributed to my life.TURKbillmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: " Wilkinson" > I think you've accumulated > enough credits to be promoted > to junior journeyman comedian. : I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's always telling me to "take a hike." As for being a comedian, there's a "stand-up comedy" joke here that an unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from making. (Martha still giggles at the thought, however.) From California where dairyworkers who make butter are called churneymen. Bill Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Small Business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hello Bill;I just wanted to tell you my friend (and i don't mean it lightly) that when I was on the end of my rope in 2001 may, when i first joined this group, your jokes were the reason i had to smile and that was about the only time i didn't think of suicide (i was on anti depressants which caused the suicidal thoughts according to the shrink). you have enlightened a lot of peoples lives without noticing. I hope you don't mind me stealing a line from star trek to say how i feel, which is" I am and always be your friend, Live long and prosper".Thanks for all the smiles and happiness you have contributed to my life.TURKbillmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: " Wilkinson" > I think you've accumulated > enough credits to be promoted > to junior journeyman comedian. : I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's always telling me to "take a hike." As for being a comedian, there's a "stand-up comedy" joke here that an unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from making. (Martha still giggles at the thought, however.) From California where dairyworkers who make butter are called churneymen. Bill Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Small Business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Bill, I know you were as serious as a heart attack--er, well, something--about the humor as antidote. Thanks. Lynn ------ Mama, homeschooler, writer, activist, spinner & knitter http://www.siprelle.com NOTICE: The National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Bill, I know you were as serious as a heart attack--er, well, something--about the humor as antidote. Thanks. Lynn ------ Mama, homeschooler, writer, activist, spinner & knitter http://www.siprelle.com NOTICE: The National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I still think junior anything is better than sophomore. --- billmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: " Wilkinson " > > > I think you've accumulated > > enough credits to be promoted > > to junior journeyman comedian. > > : > > I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. > > Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's > always telling me to " take a > hike. " > > As for being a comedian, there's a " stand-up comedy " > joke here that an > unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from > making. (Martha still > giggles at the thought, however.) > > From California where dairyworkers who make butter > are called churneymen. > > Bill > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I still think junior anything is better than sophomore. --- billmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: " Wilkinson " > > > I think you've accumulated > > enough credits to be promoted > > to junior journeyman comedian. > > : > > I'm too old to be a junior anything anymore. > > Martha thinks I'm already a journeyman. she's > always telling me to " take a > hike. " > > As for being a comedian, there's a " stand-up comedy " > joke here that an > unprecedented wave of good taste keeps me from > making. (Martha still > giggles at the thought, however.) > > From California where dairyworkers who make butter > are called churneymen. > > Bill > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 WOW Bill, You sure did capture in very little words what we all get from being a member of this zap family....... I doubt that there is a person on this forum who does not see themselves in someone else at least once a day. We are physically stronger because of our zappers, but we ar emotionally stronger becasue of the . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Turk: I am humbl;ed by your nice words. Usually my jokes make people want to kill me, not themselves. Something about winning a Nobel Prioze if they do me in. this group is very special. I doubt that there is a person on this forum who does not see themselves in someone else at least once a day. We are physically stronger because of our zappers, but we ar emotionally stronger becasue of the . I suspect that each of us has at least one hero in the group. For me it is Stacie. When I first met her here, she was an inspiration, someone who was going through more than I believed (and still believe) a human is capable of getting through. Now I find myself reading her posts for the information she passes on. Medical, technical and personal insights are all there. and she's only 23. i have a whiny, feel-sorry-for-himslef family member who should meet her. Maybe then he'll grow up. We need more Stacies in this world. From California where my favorite song is Zap-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Turk: I am humbl;ed by your nice words. Usually my jokes make people want to kill me, not themselves. Something about winning a Nobel Prioze if they do me in. this group is very special. I doubt that there is a person on this forum who does not see themselves in someone else at least once a day. We are physically stronger because of our zappers, but we ar emotionally stronger becasue of the . I suspect that each of us has at least one hero in the group. For me it is Stacie. When I first met her here, she was an inspiration, someone who was going through more than I believed (and still believe) a human is capable of getting through. Now I find myself reading her posts for the information she passes on. Medical, technical and personal insights are all there. and she's only 23. i have a whiny, feel-sorry-for-himslef family member who should meet her. Maybe then he'll grow up. We need more Stacies in this world. From California where my favorite song is Zap-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 bill think you for your kind words !! i belaev everyone needs a freinds and everyone sees soomething someone easle it goign though as somewthing that cant imagine going though or see and yet people deal with thing unthinkible and to some unknowible ! for me bill you and a few other have brighten my life and have shown me that it's possible to life a pretty good life with the defibrilator ! i know that without you joke and just your insight into the icd i would be lost please know i'm greatful for what you have knownign done to help me and minny other and somethings you have done unknowly i know that these devices and there shocking more importantly can be tearifing and it's always in your mind but you knwo i think that since of humor is a great wauy to express your self never lose sight of the light and laughts you bring to other think you bill for your kind words how is your family freind doing ? stacie,23 shockign life for shockign people where shock are a inlighten subject !billmahan <billandmarthamahan@...> wrote: Turk: I am humbl;ed by your nice words. Usually my jokes make people want to kill me, not themselves. Something about winning a Nobel Prioze if they do me in. this group is very special. I doubt that there is a person on this forum who does not see themselves in someone else at least once a day. We are physically stronger because of our zappers, but we ar emotionally stronger becasue of the . I suspect that each of us has at least one hero in the group. For me it is Stacie. When I first met her here, she was an inspiration, someone who was going through more than I believed (and still believe) a human is capable of getting through. Now I find myself reading her posts for the information she passes on. Medical, technical and personal insights are all there. and she's only 23. i have a whiny, feel-sorry-for-himslef family member who should meet her. Maybe then he'll grow up. We need more Stacies in this world. From California where my favorite song is Zap-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 ----- Original Message ----- From: Scrapnfriend > You sure did capture in very little words > what we all get from being a member > of this zap family . . . . . . . : I'm a married man. all married men know that we have to make good use of the few words we're allowed to use in public. From california where the technical term for a husband that's allowed to talk freely is Rich Guy. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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