I need to give up on consciously processing the commands and learn them by moving in the pattern enough times that the non-verbal part of my mind picks it up.

I hear ya. My skating coach just this week told me to "stop thinking" and just do mohawk turns. He says my body now knows how to do them and my brain is just getting in the way and I have to ignore it.

Sophia, I think it may just be what your library purchases, though I don't know what you read. My library has lots, but it's often already checked out!

Lee, I believe that staying home would have been the smart option. . . if only I had realized before I left everything that I forgot.

Staying home is often the smart thing to do; it's rarely the possible or practical thing to do.

Yep, so I'm laid up another day. I thought things were getting better last night, but I suspect I just tried to do to much and aggravated things further. I'm actually having more trouble walking today. I swear I'd go to the doctor if I could get across the room in less than 5 minutes.

My sister is giving my mother advice from someone who beat cancer through diet, and my every alarm is going off, and I'm not sure what to say or do that won't anger people.

Steve Jobs tried to beat cancer through diet.

My sister is giving my mother advice from someone who beat cancer through diet, and my every alarm is going off, and I'm not sure what to say or do that won't anger people.

If your mother seems to be taking the advice seriously -- and she very well might not -- could you appeal to her based on simple scientific evidence (or lack of same)? I might be making an assumption about her based on what little I know of her -- and I don't mean to do that -- but I would think she'd be hip to actual hard data from evidence-based studies, and/or the fact that no evidence-based studies have ever proven that a patient can cure cancer through diet.

Apparently a friend of my sister's beat cancer through diet. Avoided chemo and radiation. If anyone suggests my mother *stop* conventional medical practices and rely on diet, I will crawl through the internet and scratch their face off. I don't mind if she changes her diet while she's getting treated, but I also don't want anyone to stress her out and make her feel like she's failing or being irresponsible because she hasn't made her body alkaline "enough". I'm not rational on that point.

I keep getting calls to talk to my mother to cheer her up, but I don't think anyone in the family other than me gets depression, and how illness can affect it, and how I can't fix that with a phone call. My mother has every reason to be depressed, and telling her to turn that frown upside down won't make it go away. I will always want to cheer her up, but it can be bigger than that. I hope they get that.

Ugh ita. The most neutral thing I can think to say was that it can't hurt as a complement to conventional medicine. (Unless it's a tres wacky diet.)

Chicagoistas! My friend and her DH are going to Chicago for the first time on Easter Weekend. They're looking for good places (neighborhoods or hotels) to see, stay, eat, drink. Or good sites that will tell them all those things. Interests are: beer, food, crafty things, history, sports, Simpsons. Suggestions?