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Dogen's teachings point to the importance of shifting from self-orientation to other-orientation in the practice of dana. The warning is very clear—do not place yourself ahead of others. That's what the demons are whispering. That's what is within us all the time. This practice can be difficult. There are plenty of justifications to take care of your own life and death, and then when things are settled, when you're okay, to turn your attention to others. The demons never entice you to take care of others first. Notice that. Ultimately, realizing yourself and taking care of all beings is one and the same reality. Wisdom and compassion are precisely the same thing, but that's not where we start in practice.
The corrective measure is always to let go of yourself, forget yourself. Ultimately, wisdom is compassion, but what keeps you from realizing true wisdom is putting yourself before others. Giving is an expression that heals this tendency and is the very manifestation of the identity of self and other, of wisdom and compassion. Buddha's accomplishment as a sage, as a spiritual being, is not measured by his solitary sitting. If that's all he did, we wouldn't be here. His accomplishment is manifested in his dana, in his giving, his teaching. It is alive in his sharing of his body—in the soles of his feet, his muscles, his breath, his thoughts, his gestures. All those who heard these teachings immediately and all those that have come later are included within the Buddha's realization. They play an active and key role in who the Buddha is as a sage, as a human being.
It works the same way for us when we question what brought us to this path. Is it satisfying to reflect on how deeply we have sat a sesshin? How profound was the silence? Is that feeling going to last a week? Two weeks? Five years? Or is the important question how deeply we touched and were touched by others? Ultimately, how much did we give? As we evolve in this practice, we become more available to others. We become more able to give. We learn what it means to serve, to really serve. We become less possessive, more generous and willing to extend ourselves. We become less likely to feel that we're being put upon and more likely to let our sense of humor improve as we allow the reality of the other to meet us squarely where we are. Simultaneously, we liberate the self and other.
A monk asked Master Huihai, "By what means can the gateway of our school (the Zen school) be entered? Huihai said, "By the means of dana paramita." The monk said, "According to the Buddha, the bodhisattva path comprises six paramitas. Why have you mentioned only the one? Please explain why this one alone provides a sufficient means for us to enter." Huihai said, "Deluded people fail to understand that all the other five proceed from dana paramita. By its practice, all of the others are fulfilled."
The six paramitas are the precepts, patience, effort, samadhi, wisdom and generosity.
The monk said, "Why is it called dana paramita?" Huihai said, "Dana means relinquishment." The monk asked, "Relinquishment of what?" Huihai said, "Relinquishment of dualism of opposites, which means relinquishment of self and other, of ideas as to the dual nature of good and bad, being and non-being, void and non-void, pure and impure, and so on."
That is the ultimate nature of dana paramita, the complete relinquishment of the self. It is opening yourself completely to others. Your life becomes transparent. The two key components of what is absolutely necessary for us to take refuge in each other are the capacity to let go and the capacity to remain open. This is none other than the dismantling of the self-other paradigm. It is the same as dropping away of body and mind, the complete relinquishment of duality. The only thing that remains is the in-flow, the out-flow. One hand passing something to the other, the other receiving something from the first. There's a song by Bob Marley that says it well: "So much trouble in the world…. Give a little. Take a little." So much trouble in the world is taken care of by that. What becomes apparent is the profound interconnection of giving, where all things—the clouds, these mountains and rivers, this very universe, all life forms—rest in the reality of giving, and the self is nothing other than the infinite network of dana.

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The flier's author was Ladislao Cruz, a Santa Ana grocery-store owner and Justo's only son. Ladislao, who appears to have coined the term "Santa Ana Four," would pen another letter on his father's behalf. In "The Story of Justo Cruz," Ladislao went into further detail about his father's activist past. "Everywhere that my father has worked," Ladislao wrote, "he has joined with others to get decent wages, to get decent conditions on the job, and to get rid of the discrimination and second-class treatment of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Negroes and all minority groups.
"But you say, what did he do to be arrested and jailed?" Ladislao asked rhetorically in his letter. "That's it. I've just finished telling you.
"If a man is 'dangerous' because he thinks that wages should allow the worker and his family to have enough to eat and live in a decent home," Ladislao continued, "then I'll agree—Justo Cruz is a very 'dangerous' man.
"Many who have fought against oppression and are being persecuted by the Immigration Service, have lived here for 30 or more years, and have American-born children and sometimes grandchildren," Ladislao concluded. "Some people didn't know these facts until someone close to them was arrested and persecuted under the McCarran Act. I was one of these. But now, with all of my heart, I urge every person to come to the defense of not only my father, but [also] every foreign born person trying to live a peaceful, useful life in this country."
The LACPFB also produced a pamphlet on behalf of Espinoza. Titled "Why Joel Benjamin Espinoza, Aged 9, American, Wrote a Letter to Mr. Landon," the front page of the foldout featured a picture of the cherubic Joel, wearing a Cub Scout uniform replete with kerchief, jeans, medals and a short haircut. It also excerpted his letter, part of which read, "I a nine years old and I was in your office last Wednesday because I don't want you to deport my father. . . . My brother Danny and I ware Cub Scouts and we need our father to take us on hikes and to Pack meetings."
Inside the pamphlet was a picture of the Espinoza family: five sons; three daughters; Elias' wife, Consuelo; and his mother-in-law. You couldn't find a better portrait of an all-American family. One son sports a letterman's jacket, another a Hawaiian shirt, another a baseball cap. The girls look like bobby-soxers; Consuelo and her mother smile broadly. The bespectacled Elias commands the center of the photo and wears a tie. Underneath, a paragraph read, "The Espinoza Family will be left fatherless and almost penniless if other Americans permit Elias Espinoza Sr. . . . to be deported to Mexico."
While the LACPFB fought the deportations of the Santa Ana Four, Consuelo barnstormed across the country to publicize her husband's case. She even testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, D.C., where she presented committee members with more than 5,000 signatures asking that Elias be released.
But powerful forces worked behind-the-scenes to boot the Santa Ana Four from the United States, namely the Associated Farmers of Orange County. The organization had formed in response to the Citrus War of 1936, when more than 3,000 Latino orange pickers went on strike for the right to create a union and higher wages. The Associated Farmers—composed of the county's citrus growers and packing houses—colluded with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the district attorney's office and local police units to brutally suppress the strike and sought the deportation of strike leaders and even the Mexican consul (see "Gunkist Oranges," June 9, 2006). After the strike, the Associated Farmers placed many Latinos on a blacklist, a move that a 1939 congressional committee deemed illegal.
Shortly after the arrest of the Santa Ana Four, the Associated Farmers put out a bulletin warning growers of "subversive activities" in the county. "Following the arrest of the four Mexican aliens, Justo Cruz, Augustine [sic] Esparza, Andres Gonzales and Elias Espinoza," the bulletin read, the LACPFB was trying to "organize the Mexican community into a left-wing pressure group" and convince them they were the "only organization striving to protect the rights of and looking for the interest of 'oppressed' minority groups."
Ladislao Cruz's letter claimed that the Associated Farmers fingered his father to the authorities. "The Associated Farmers want their oranges picked and packed cheaply—they want to pay starvation wages to their workers," Ladislao wrote. "And anyone who tries to get a decent wage is 'dangerous.'"
Meanwhile, Consuelo Espinoza's campaign led her to the offices of James B. Utt, the Tustin-area congressman better remembered for his 1963 claim that the United Nations was training "a large contingent of barefooted Africans" in Georgia to "take over the United States." According to an LACPFB document, "Mrs. Espinoza quoted Congressman Utt as saying that he would like to do something about the McCarran-Walter Act but that the Associated Farmers wouldn't let him." Another private letter in Elias Espinoza's LACPFB file stated that Utt "intimated that he had received many requests from his constituency asking him to do something for Mr. Espinoza, but he regretted that at this moment he could do very little because the Associated Farmers of Orange County did not approve of Mr. Espinoza. He advised Mrs. Espinoza to see if she couldn't convince the Associated Farmers to change their minds about Mr. Espinoza."
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Dear Dr. Donohue: I have type 2 diabetes and check my blood sugar every morning before breakfast. It's usually in the 125 mg/dl (6.9 mmol/L) to 150 (8.3) range. When I have my blood sugar checked at the lab, they tell me to fast before taking the test. My AIC is in the 6.2 to 6.5 range. My doctors are happy with these numbers. I take metformin and glyburide daily. I am 80 and have been doing this for many years.
My question is that before retiring for the night my sugar reading is 110 (6.1) to 120 (6.7). Why does my sugar rise during the night when I'm asleep? No one gives me a satisfactory answer. Some say, "The body does strange things," and other nonsensical answers. Can you give me a common-sense answer? -- P.V.
Dr. Donohue: It's not easy explaining why blood sugar rises when you have nothing to eat during sleep. I don't mean to offend you, but do you take a late-evening snack? It can take four hours for some food to exit the stomach. The carbohydrates taken from the snack might not raise blood sugar until four hours after you've eaten it.
A better explanation is that your diabetes medicines have been metabolized before you wake up in the morning. Metformin comes in two different preparations, an extended-release form and an immediate-release form. If you take the immediate release, the medicine might be long gone before you waken the next day.
The same goes for glyburide. It lasts from 12 to 24 hours. But if you are a person in whom it lasts on the shorter side of that span, it, too, may have been metabolized long before you wake in the morning.
A before-breakfast blood sugar is best when in the range of 70 (3.9) to 130 (7.2) Your highest reading is 150 (8.3), not all that far from the ideal high. Too-exact control can result in dangerously low readings.
Your hemoglobin A1C is perfect. It indicates blood sugar control for the prior three months. I see why your doctors are happy with your readings. You should be too.


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A pickup truck and a big rig crashed into the South Loop on Thursday.
The accident happened at 3:45 a.m. on the South Loop Feeder Road and Telephone Road.
Police said the driver of a pickup truck ran a red light and crashed into the 18-wheeler. The collision caused both vehicles to crash into the underside of the South Loop, police said.
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The one thing that I'd like to see Apple present next week is 10.6.9, not on stage, but as a quiet update. Wasn't that supposed to be released ages ago? Is it ever going to be released, or has Apple completely abandoned it? There are still many older Macs with people still running Snow Leopard on them, and it could use one final update, adding some more iCloud support, as certain iCloud features are not available in Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard is still very popular and used by many people, including me.
Don't hold your breath, not gonna happen. The percentage of Macs running 10.6 is dwindling by the day, so if they didn't suport iCloud initially for those machines, what on God's green earth makes you think they'd be inclined to do so in the future? Why would they decide to add even more older configurations to support, maintain, troubleshoot, etc? It's an irrational expectation, and there's no logical reason to assume they would be adding any features to 10.6 at this point, which is a 4 yr old OS.


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? Alexis S. Barnett, 29, two mittimus charges, no child restraint warrant
? Renita Marie Ben, 39, grand larceny
? Sharmane Shamar Bruce, 31, disturbance of the family
? Ryan Austin Buse, 19, shoplifting
? David M. Callahan, 36, shoplifting
? Ashley Ann Chambliss, 35, driving while license suspended warrant
? Marlin Maurice Griffin, 34, disturbance of the family, disorderly conduct warrant, disorderly conduct
? Jonathan Lee Harlan, 32, residential burglary
? Arthur Lee Johnson, 57, court order
? Christopher Michael Keeton, 40, no inspection sticker warrant, three mittimus charges, simple assault warrant
? Cody Daniel Pitts, 23, disorderly conduct
? Norman Ray Wilson Jr., 38, mittimus
? Shannon Jerome Hill, 38, mittimus
? Sarah Latham, 38, trespassing warrant, false identification to police, two mittimus charges
? Warren Antonio Randall Sr., 28, mittimus
? Kenyatta Stokes, 37, no driver's license
? Varetta J. Wyatt, 32, reckless driving
? Rodney A. Bolton, 44, no driver's license warrant, DUI - 1st offense
? Katrina Renee Dan, 31, DUI - 2nd offense, improper equipment
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? Beaulah Lewis, 24, no hunting license warrant, shoplifting
? Donald Ray Miller, 50, shoplifting, trespassing
? Antrinette Nicole Smith, 19, shoplifting
? Cierra Marshae Ward, 19, shoplifting
? Jodeci Juan Lee, 20, auto burglary
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? Auto burglary on 1200 block Beverly Hills Road, wallet with contents stolen from unlocked vehicle
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? Auto burglary on 300 block Katie Avenue, purse stolen after breaking window
? Auto burglary on 100 block Mable Street, Jodea Lee and juvenile charged with stealing radio
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What are Sensors and What are their Industry Applications?
What Type of Things Do Sensors Measure?
How Can Nanotechnology Improve the Performance of Sensors?
What Will Nanosensors Do in the Future?
Sensors pervade many aspects of modern living. They are built into many consumer electronic devices, cars, medical devices, security and safety devices, and systems for monitoring pollution and environmental conditions. Many applications demand miniaturisation to reduce power consumption for integration into portable devices. Affordable mass production is also a prerequisite for sensors for consumer products, and for disposable devices such as sensors for medical diagnostics and pollution monitoring. Sensors support applications across the economy - industrial processes, and those in construction, extractive industries, agriculture, health care and so on - and can be incorporated into new or existing products.
Sensors can model various parameters: physical parameters such as temperature, displacement, acceleration, flow and so on; and chemical and biochemical parameters, such as concentrations of gases, ions or molecules, and molecular interactions)
The application of nanotechnology to sensors should allow improvements in functionality. In particular, new biosensor technology combined with micro and nanofabrication technology can deliver a huge range of applications. They should also lead to much decreased size, enabling the integration of 'nanosensors' into many other devices.
We can also expect to see actuators that control movement on the nanoscale. Sensor/actuator combinations will deliver 'smart' and precise functions in products and processes. For example, nanofabrication and inspection tools require sensors and actuator systems that can position objects with nanometre accuracy. In this way, sensors and actuators constitute another enabling technology.
Primary author: Dr John Taylor, OBE, FRS, FEng, Director-General of the Research Councils.
Source: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Report entitled 'New Dimensions for Manufacturing: A UK Strategy for Nanotechnology', published in June 2002.
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OCEAN Grove's apprentice cabinet maker Anica Costa has measured up as the best in the country – taking out a top industry award.
The 24-year-old Fusion Cabinets employee won the National Furnishing Industry Training Awards Apprentice of the Year. "It is daunting going up against all of Australia.You don't know what others have been taught. It's really, really cool, as soon as I heard I was nominated I was nervous but as soon as I was there I had great night. Now I have to be good all the time."
It was based on Anica's third year final project, which was a kitchen. It was judged on finish, difficulty and the apprentice's folio. Anica was presented with the winning certificate at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton. She is a final year student at the Gordon and also creates her own furniture, see Instagram/theardenvale.
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Tufts Engineers Without Borders El Salvador is working with Porvenir, a community of about 120 people in La Libertad, to increase the quantity of available water. Currently, the potable water supply in Porvenir comes from spring boxes, a shallow well, and rainwater harvesting. This system has inadequate dry season flows, requires community members to walk long distances to collect water, and is vulnerable to bacterial contamination. EWB-Tufts, in partnership with a local NGO and the Porvenir Association for Community Development, is proposing improvements to the existing components and developing designs for additional components that will increase the capacity, convenience and safety of the potable water system. EWB Tufts is currently focusing on a spring box known as Domingo's spring box, located at the edge of the river. There is a significant leak from the same spring source coming out of a rock to the left of the existing spring box. The group is currently working on designs to capture this water, since flow rate calculations indicate that it could at least double the community's water supply.
Winter 2009: EWB-Tufts was introduced to the community by the NGO Epilogos Charities to answer a need for improved potable water infrastructure. The initial assessment included a characterization of the existing water sources, a preliminary health survey, and a topographic survey. During weekly meetings at Tufts, members of the El Salvador EWB group presented research to each other about the merits of different proposals for system improvements. It was decided that a professionally-drilled well would be the best option for providing clean water throughout the year.
Summer 2009: EWB-Tufts visited Porvenir again and continued the assessment. We met with civil engineer from a Salvadoran well-drilling company to discuss the feasibility and costs associated with drilling a well. We received advice on the proper organization of a community to develop a water system by ACUA, a Salvadoran water development NGO. EWB-Tufts performed research on the property rights of the residents of Porvenir and learned about "Green Zones" where public water supplies can be placed. Through the example of a nearby community with a failed well that was recently installed by an American organization, we learned of the consequences of inadequate support for local water system operators.
Spring 2010: In March another Tufts team traveled to Porvenir to assess viable options for improving water quality and quantity, to complete health surveys, and to further develop a relationship with and an understanding of the community. During this trip, water from each drinking source (two spring-boxes and a well), as well as from some household storage containers, were tested for contamination. Additionally, the team gathered information of Porvenir's past experience with water distribution and assessed for the technical and geographic viability of future water distribution and filtration options. Some viable options seem to be a piping system from an existing water source to a central location and the creation of a new spring box along the river bank. The team also formed relationships with a large landowner of Porvenir, who is hoping to work with Tufts EWB to increase living standards in the community, and the owner of a local hardware store, who helped us to understand which construction materials were available locally. He also pledged to work with us in the future should we need construction advice. Also, surveys were completed at each household in order to gather information of community members' health, access to healthcare, water use, sanitary habits, and economic status. Additionally, community meetings were held to discuss the priorities of Porvenir and their expectations of a relationship with Tufts. They communicated to the team that they would be grateful for and willing to work on any project that is decided upon, and that they were excited for future work. The travel team left El Salvador with the resources, contacts, and information that would help in determining the path of the project. Since, the entire group has decided upon short-, mid-, and long-term goals for our project, and is excited to continue on.
Fall 2011: The El Salvador group is excited to work with its new and returning members this fall. We're currently preparing for our January 2012 implementation trip. We're planning on constructing a new storage tank to which we can pipe excess water from the existing spring box. This is a great project for our group, as it allows all of our group members to contribute with their particular skills and backgrounds.
Winter 2012: In January, 2012 a Tufts team visited Porvenir to conduct a detailed assessment of the various options. They did extensive flow rate testing on a leak they found near Domingo's spring box, and determined the flow to be approximately 3000 liters per day. They also did land surveying, soil testing, force calculations, and community surveys of water needs in order to have all necessary data to dive into the design phase of the project. The Tufts team held several meetings with community members, including a Women's Workshop and a Kid's Camp. They also reinforced their positive relationship with Mike and Suzy from EPILOGOS, the NGO that EWB-Tufts works with. The team also visited several other communities to get a sense of possible direction the project could go after completing their work in Porvenir.
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Hello, My Mother is age 85,
I take care of my Mother who lives with me, and is age 85. I am recently having to take her to an appointment to see if she is at the first stages of Alzheimers or if it is her Hearing. Pls, keep her in your prayers that it is only the Hearing IF anything. Her name is Nora and she is a trooper. : )
Has anyone been here where I may about to go? That is, New at Alzheimer Pateints. My Mother is a dear sweet christian Lady, whom I love with all my heart. Mother's first appointment will be in March 2007. If I get a chance I will come back and post on how she is doing. Serious inquiries only can email me If you like, maybe I can meet someone in my shoes? That would be helpful. Thanx for your time...
I have never been in your situation...(and lets hope it is just her hearing)! Best of luck with your upcoming appointment. I would hope the Dr. or his staff would have info on support groups....hopefully in your town. I have lost both my parents and I am only 54. Do let us know how she is doing....all the best to both of you.
I am also caring for my mom. She will be 89 very soon and in failing health. She was diagnosed with Dementia about three years ago and has been in gradual decline since that time. She now has Alzheimers and it is heart breaking to watch it happen before your eyes. Mom was always very active and outgoing. She is on medication which greatly helps her mood. She really is quite comical at times. Although it is sad to see her slipping away I feel quite blessed that GOD has allowed me this time to make my peace with the situation.
I know that my mom may be gone forever from me soon so I cherish every moment that I have with her. Be positive and love her even in the hard times. This to shall pass. GOD bless you both.
Hi Mike,
This is all new to me also. Thank you for your support and prayers.
I will post as to how things progress. Appointments start this coming Friday for Mother. In May, she see's the Family Doctor and we go from there with the results.
Gail, Hi
Thank you for your support and prayers.
If it turns out to be Alzheimers, I am glad to know there is Medication for it and I hope this will help My Mother as well. She is already on over 10 Medications though, so I hope this don't hurt anything.
I know I am Blessed to have her As long as I have. My Dad passed away over 7 years ago from Lung Cancer. My step parent passed away ( I never called her step Mom), she passed away this past Thanksgiving day. 2006
Yes, I agree, cheirsh every moment w/ our Mom's as we have time to do so. And I do this also. : ) I guess I just feel bad for the siblings cause they are going to miss out on soooo much. Ya know? As a Christian, I don't want to feel bad for what choices they make and for my not wanting to have anything to do with them cause of this.
Mom also has Glaucoma, and I give her the eye drops every night. She had cateracts removed from both eyes. Point is, NONE of the siblings (4) called or came to see her. They only call/called when they want Money. & TRUST ME, Mom don't have much of that!
Maybe I shouldn't complain? I DO Love Mother! I keep the others in my prayers. I feel sorry for them. i enjoy EVERY moment with Mother. Mom is VERY glad to have chosen ME to be the caretaker of her. She & I talk about this all the time. : ) Doctors say to talk about past things in life of most importance to her and I, so we do.
my mom is 84; it's been at least 4 years since we began having her assessed for the dementia...most refer to it as Alzheimers; there won't be a definite diagnosis until after death; they they find the true evidence to call it that...names don't matter now; it's a challenge to keep her as functioning as possible..try to get referrals to the agencies around you, that can assist with various things that could help you as her symptoms progress...we have Eldersource in this area, which helps in counselling, getting her to see MDs doing research in the field; we can get day help through them; and just up to date information about what is available medication wise; so I can speak to her MDs with suggestions like, "can we try an antidepressant with her now?.,..what about adding Namenda; ...or since we increased her Exelon, she is aggitated often....is that a side effect".....You also can go to support groups if they are in your area...just hearing that you aren't the only person feeling a certain way; or having a problem that others have faced and can help you through....I like support groups...my dad, who is 88, goes to a spouse support group and it helps him....
Don't keep trying to care for her if she wanders, gets combative, or is just too much for you to handle alone..it isn't a sin to look for proper care for her in the community and you can visit her daily....
I hope and will pray that she gets a good assessment and you will come away with some good information and a plan to follow..
god bless.
Hi marmar1959,
I am an adult mental health specialist who has worked for nearly 20 years with folks who have been labeled with various and sundry things like severe autism, schizophrenia, bipolar, and yes, "Alzheimer's/dementias. At age 50, after accumulating this extensive direct care experience, I wrote an (approved) master's thesis on a promising, NON-pharmacologic approach to supporting people who have been given the label of "dementia," including the most common form: "Alzheimer's disease." The thesis found much evidence that supports a cultural or societal impact on our understanding (and thus diagnosis and treatment) of these so-called mental "disorders."
There is no question that all of these disorders are devastating; both to the individual and to his/her family and friends. That is exactly why we need to be very careful about drawing firm conclusions about the state of their minds, EVEN if someone with impressive letters after their name (MD, RN, PhD, etc.) applies a label. I will give you an example of what I am getting at...
In Haiti, people have long believed that witch doctors can cure anything that ails, including mental conditions. Partly BECAUSE the people truly believe in witch doctors, they find that these "doctors" actually CAN effect change in their "patients." Interesting? So I am here to tell you that it is no different in our country...if we believe in the medical "experts," then it shall be so! When an MD or other expert draws a conclusion that the patient has "Alzheimer's" or "dementia" it will begin a cascade of action and reaction on the part of all those surrounding the patient, and the resulting stigma will help produce the very problem that has been "seen" initially by the "expert." The technical term for this phenomenon is "self-fulfilling prophecy." In many cases this has a very damaging result, because the patient then loses much hope of transcending the label, and once again being seen as "normal" or "capable."
It is extremely important to understand that this is a phenomenon that is only recently being uncovered by those who are motivated FIRST and foremost to truly care about the person in question. You might ask yourself, "Are the doctors or specialists truly concerned about my loved one's long-term well-being, or are they engaged in a profession that, when it comes to Alzheimer's or dementia, abounds with questions, bias, and misinformation?" Do these "experts" invest a significant amount of time getting to know my loved one and studying this socially-influenced phenomenon of "dementia"...or...Do they really take the time to KNOW my loved one, and are they really interested in their care; or are they busy trying to maintain a practice (that is heavily influenced by both the moneyed interests of the pharmaceutical companies, and by the constantly looming threat of malpractice claims) with motivations that are secondary to the interests of their patients? Do the medications currently prescribed for dementias really work, or are they a desperate last-ditch effort to reassure families and other who feel something, anything, must be done to help my loved one?
You know, we are a society that is not only ageist (glorifying youth), we also like to find a pill to "cure" whatever ails us as quickly and easily as possible. As a professional community (the psychiatric one) we also have lost sight of the fact that the human brain is a miraculously complex organ that is capable of the most amazing feats of regeneration and self-healing. Contrary to this, once a person is stigmatized by receiving a label of mental "disease" it is nearly impossible for the person to overcome it and return to being seen as able-minded, or competent. That is why the loved ones of such folks need to be fierce advocates who challenge and question the "authorities" in ALL cases where labels are applied, but especially when it comes to mental health issues. I would recommend two books to get you started on the path to becoming such an advocate, if you are really concerned about your loved one's fate. The first called "Aging With Grace" by Dr. David Snowdon; and the second is called "Explorations in Dementia" by Dr. Michael Bender. Both of these authors have taken the time to look with an open mind at the problem of Alzheimer's and related dementias from a social, not a biomedical, perspective. That is crucial... as I say.
Best wishes for you and for your Mother. Please always remember that, above all, she is a whole and complex person...who, unfortunately, may be about to receive a very damaging label. Keep searching for information, and be wary of what the experts say...especially those in THIS country, where "Big Pharma" continues to exert undue influence in the way doctors and many others perceive mental illness and the appropriate way to treat it.
Charles D. Macknee, MA
First I would like to reiterate what someone else told you and that is to cherish every moment that you have with your mom. I lost my mom 5 years ago and dad 3 years before that and I can truly say that when the second parent goes it is a very difficult time in your life.
Mom didn't have Alheimers but dad did (mom was 8years younger then dad) and my siblings and I learned from this wonderful woman how to care for someone with love, respect and DIGNITY (key word being dignity). No matter how difficult dad became she treated him with respect and dignity in both actions and verbal tone.
I know the road ahead will not be easy for you but I pray God gives you the strength to handle each situation with the grace he gave my mom. I will keep you and your mom in my prayers
Thank you for your kind words. This is a situation of, No matter what, I will always be there to take care oef my Mother. I donot like Nursing homes and she has requested not wanting to ever go into one, so she won't. I understand your resoning for some people to have to do this, but this is not an option for me. I will seek advice from support groups and doctors as I have had most of the comments here to suggest to me. I am a firm beleiver that God won't put on us any more than we can handle and I am sorry If I make this sound like I cannot or willnot handle it, but It is all new to me. I can and I will handle it. : )
Thank you for commenting. God Bless.....
Hi Charles,
Thanx for your kindness and information. I will take in everything you have said and I will look to purchase those books you suggested, and read them.
Ohhh most definately, : ) My Mother Does get Respect and Dignity. I agree, making sure they keep this is Very important. We talk to her and disscuss things as a WHOLE family.
Thank you for your comment.
Mother's appointment is this coming Friday, 03/30/07 for the Hearing test. Family Doctor said this will determine If we do other test or not for Alzheimers/Dementia. Back over a year ago, Mother was told as was I that we had to watch her that she was starting with some degree of Dementia while in the Hospital. But they said then, to keep her talking about the past and now, and future. Which we do and have been doing. I look forward to coming back here to give whatever news is instore for her, BUT Am praying God Intercedes with this one.
Hi again "marmar",
Thanks for reading my reply, and for replying back. Those books should both be available either new or used at Amazon.com. I have read a lot on this subject (beside working for years in this field) and these books are two of the best out of the precious few available that offer views outside that of the conventional biomedical community. As I tried to emphasize, we all should consider alternative perspectives, especially when it comes to perceived mental afflictions.
Best regards,
Are you willing to share which medication is helping your mother's moods? My 85-year-old mother-in-law was diagnosed with Dementia over year ago; but lately, she has become more agitated and has even hit her caregivers. She gets angry with my husband and me for no apparent reason as well. It would be wonderful to find a medication that would help her moods. (She had many years of untreated depression prior to her diagnosis.) Her doctor has tried many medications, including--most recently--Haldol. It has helped her to sleep 8 hrs. at night, which she hasn't done in many years; but the day after she began taking it, she became physically abusive with one of the caregivers. So, we've asked the Dr. to discontinue it. He's tried Aricept in the early stages, but it caused her to hallucinate; he's also tried Zyprexa and Trazodone as well. among others. If she has Alzheimer's now (which we suspect), perhaps a mood stabilizer would be the answer to these most recent concerns. Your suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi BBrown,
My Mother isnt diagnosed YET, and therefor isnt on any medications for Alzheimers YET. I will however be very glad toshare what they will if anything, put her on. I am seeking advice and help and I If I can help in return that is wonderful. I think this would make the world go round for people to help instead of hinder one another. : )
So after this coming Friday, I will come and post what they say and let you know more as it developes. I appreciate your concerns. I beleive My Mother is hard of hearing, I am praying this Hearing test doesnt show any signs of Alzheimers. I have to talk really loud and repeat myself a lot when I talk to her. I am no Doctor but this is why I think It is Hearing. The Family Doctor thinks its 1st stage of Alzheimers. I fully intend to ask questions before and after diagnosis. Even with Mother being 85, I realize I have been blessed to have her this long, But I am selfish, I guess, I want her around even longer. God is strengthening me more and more each day and with all here to help, I am grateful. I have to be strong to help Mom.
I would see or ask if it didnt have something to do with another medication she may b on. Maybe some or one of the Medicines counteract the other one? Everyone's Body is different. Do you make sure she takes her Meds? i do for my Mother, though she can take her own, but with the severity of the need, to take her Meds I make sure she does.
Hello marmar1959. I am sorry to hear about your mother. It tough to be a caregiver, and hopefully you will hear good news from the doctor, but if it comes out to be Alzhiemer's or dementia get into a support group and found out if you have any resources in your area. I have information on the disease where I work. If you need any of it you can call us at Alzheimer's Family Services, in Pensacola, Florida. I have a newsletter that I put together every month full of information and a caregiver's handbook. To reach us our number is 850-478-7790. These items are provided at no charge, since we are a non-profit organization, and we focus on the care of our clients. Give us a call, and we will be happy to answer any of your questions. Hope everything will go well, and hope to hear from you soon. Thanks, Jamie
I hope things go well with your mother's doctors appointments. My mother is 84 and I am essentially the only caregiver. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a year ago. She is in the beginning of moderate stage. My brothers do give me alot of support but what I find most helpful is that she goes to an adult day care specifically for alzheimer's/dementia clients twice a week. It helps her and gives me a break. You might check out one in your area.
God bless,
thank you, I will consider the Time outs for me. I will ask the Doctor where these places are and If her Insurance will cover it. The Medicine for her cream on the skin cancer that was found on her nose last week, was 87 dollars. WOW, dont the government know how hard it is for her age groups to get Medications.? I dont think they care. I am happy for you that you have your Brothers to help you and I agree, this Adult Day care MAY be what I need now & then. Thanx, Marsha....
I totally agree with your perspective here and would love to read your paper on this subject. I plan on checking out these books you recommend. We went through 5+ years with my Dad with dementia -- tore our family to near shreds and now my oldest sister who is 14 years older is in early stage and it's already torn the family to shreds, again. If I'd been able to have my way, my father would have never been put on any of those meds. I had my way for a very brief time and saw miraculous improvement with some herbs. I determined back then that someday I'd go back to what I started with him and try to prove those results if ever presented with an opportunity to do so at a time I could afford to do so, too. Now, my hands may be tied again -- we'll see.
My father's name was Charles, too, Charles Wesley S. He was about Ronald Reagan's age and a stauch supporter and hard worker for him, too. He was diagnosed about '93 when he was 85 -- he had had language difficulty a couple of years prior. I was never really convinced that he had Alzheimer's and we never did an autopsy. I never really bought into this whole new disease label thing, either -- I saw way too many simple reasons for his symptoms. Of course, my middle sister said I was in denial -- her husband was an internal medicine doctor and so of course they knew better. I was just looking at it much too simplistically and holistically for them.
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My father had high cholestrol since his 60's (about 1973) that he reversed with lecithin and milk ( I had heard Adele Davis on the Merv Griffin show talking about this supplementation and told him about it -- his doctor told me back in '95 that he was amazed at his results, so since there were no other drugs for high cholestrol back then, he started prescribing it to his other patients with very good results and he still thought it superior to the then new present day drugs). About the same time his doctor found a heart murmur that also seemed to disappear for quite a while.
Somewhere about this same time (about 1975) my parents remodeled their home adding central heat and air, wall paneling, and termite treatment (Chlordane) for their small 1,100 sq' home. During this procedure some of the Chlordane got into the ductwork.
During the years he faithfully took his lecithin, even though he was in his late 60's and 70's he worked tirelessly for many civic organizations, still was earning an income in insurance and public relations, wrote prolifically for several publications and wrote, edited and published the Methodist Men's and Lions club publications in Oklahoma. He was very active in the local and national campaigns for the Republican party in Oklahoma City for over 10 years. He, also, taught himself how to use a computer in his late 70's and renewed his insurance practice. My point being that he was an extremely active individual making many contributions in all areas of his life and the community in which he lived during a stage of life when many of us are winding down. I think he felt better then, than he had in his late 50's and early 60's. Personally, I thank God that I was confined during my first pregnancy and became a t.v. addict and 'met' Adele Davis on the Merv Griffin show and even more so that he actually listened to me and DID it. No telling how many others were helped by his devotion to a little home remedy -- without that he'd probably have died of heart disease..
My Story/ health background:
In 1980, I was poisoned with Dursban which was improperly applied with an oil base in our place of business. During the next 2 years, I suffered many strange symptoms, many of them muscular and neurological in nature, when exposed to many modern day smells, chemicals, etc. I was only 38 and experienced 'goony spells' which involved some apathy and disorientation, especially while visiting the neighborhood grocery, variety, hardware, and furniture stores. People could have easily put me in an Alzheimer's or dementia category if just observing me and my actions. Thank God I knew that it was related to the poisoning and found an appropriate doctor, a local respected cardiologist who had also been poisoned with insecticidal treatment in his home that became a clinical ecologist and founded a clinic in the DFW area where I lived. He had a newly converted psychiatrist on staff who assured me and my husband that I wasn't going crazy. Therefore, my experience with this health crisis changed my perspective on many illnesses as well as forcing me to find many health answers on my own and to take charge of my own health issues, as well as, causing me to always look for causal environmental factors, first.
I had also had a dear devoted nutritional-oriented internal medicine man with a bio-chemical background as my primary care physician who had warned me of the dangers of pharmaceuticals back in 1975. In the last few years I have found a good friend who is a pharmacist and she has explained to me that there are many dementias, many of which are drug related. I observed this with a Parkinson's med with my Mother that my middle sister had insisted on her trying -- my Mom did not have that disease and that was the determination of her chosen neurologist after dismissing the others.
Now, back to My father's dementia battle history:
Since my father took no drugs, other than lecithin with milk supplementation, I looked at other causes first He'd had some bad falls in about 1990 that were never addressed chiropractically speaking, (during my own wellness search I had come to believe in SOME types of spinal manipulation treatments). Then his cognitive issues took a huge decline in the fall of '93, right after an auto incident that caused very significant trauma to his head and neck for which he was x-rayed and then subsequently a few days later received a CTscan examination at his first neurological appointment that my middle sister arranged prior regarding his cognitive difficulties. He still did not receive any manipulations to restore proper positioning of those vertebrae and circulation. Instead he was prescribed Cognex which while on the first dosage level proved at first to slightly improve him but after advancing to the 2nd level dosage all his muscles and balance mechanisms started to deteriorate and he had blackout/collasping spells for no apparent reason. My Mom saw these changes after he'd already lost a lot of weight and muscle mass and did not advance him to the 3rd dosage level -- Thank heavens.
At the time I was VERY heavily involved raising 2 teenaged children with my first in her 2nd year of college (high expenses). It was almost 3 months before I realized the seriousness of the situation and another few months before it clicked in that his neck was so out of line and his legs were a full inch off. It was still a little later before I realized that at some point several years before, that he'd quit taking his lecithin regularly and then not at all for at least 2 or 3 years. When I discovered this he was no longer capable of remembering to take it himself or to even do it himself. I tried to enlist my mother's help but she would not cooperate along this line and she was his only caretaker, then. Her objections were having to wash that icky, sticky spoon out everyday. Go figure!
My oldest sister came back to live with them about a year later so I had a supportive caretaker ally which I needed because I lived 200 miles away. That is when I used kinetic testing that I had learned during my poisoning crisis to search for the herbs that might help him. In just a few weeks, he was back to showering, dressing and even shaving himself every morning and remembering to close the garage door that he went in and out of 20 times a day. We called it a Godsend but my middle sister was appalled at this improvement saying that I was improving his physical well being but that his mind WAS GONE. I told her that the body doesn't heal that way -- it is not selective, it heals the whole body, but she wouldn't hear of it and before long she had him put on some destructive drugs again. Since they lived in her house and since she decided they needed to be moved to an assisted living home in her town, I lost most of the control for the rest of his life.
This experience left me knowing that in some way I was supposed to put what I learned to use someday and I'm thinking that the time is near at hand. We have an extensive family: My father had 5 children, 16 living grandchildren and at least that many great grandchildren and no telling how many great-greats he will have and the last thing I think we should have hanging over us is the doom and gloom of an Alzheimer's end to our lives or looking at each other or ourselves and watching for it and possibly falling into that trap you mention -- a self fulfilling prophecy. If we have the knowledge of a simple, inexpensive solution or even multi-faceted simple solutions then the dread will be at the very least lessened. Knowledge is freedom and power over our own health and lives.
I would love to read your paper. You may feel free to email me directly, if that is possible from this posting list. I am looking for all the knowledge about these cognitive conditions and to update myself on the latest research. (Aricept did not particularly help my father and doesn't seem to be helping my sister, either. )
Sincerely, Elaine Barry
I wrote the last post to you but it was really intended for Charles who replied to you -- if you can contact him would you please send him my post.
I am new to this site and guess I didn't do something right and am still having a problem getting back to reading all the replies to you and your replies, but I think I saw that your Mom is on 10 different meds. If she is on any meds then that's the VERY first question I would ask the doctor -- If her issues whether it be hearing or cognitive has anything to do with these and how many of these meds are really necessary. I know personally that some Parkinson's meds cause cognitive issues and some high blood pressure meds cause mental confusion. It often seems to me that one med will cause some issue so then another is prescribed to address that issue and so forth.
I hope something I may have written in either post will help you -- your mom is so lucky to have you. I know what you mean about your other siblings and not wanting to put her into a nursing home, too. You will be in my prayers and pls pray for me and my sis as we face this together, too. Pls pray that I can find something to help her like I did my father and that we can help others in the process, too. Also, her children really have no other option except to institutionalize her, so we need prayers that we find an exceptional place and very affordable, too -- it's looking very bleak right now.
By the way, I have trouble with my hearing from time to time and I have found ear candling to be of tremendous help if that is her problem. The cones/candles you use for this do make a difference -- the skinnier ones have worked the best for me.
Sincerely and best wishes, Elaine Barry
Hi Elaine, and thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed and interesting account. I think the way this site works, when you reply to a post it not only shows up here, but also gets sent to all those chatting in this section.
I would like to respond to your message at greater length, but since you asked I thought it would be perhaps better to give you my email address so we can know better who the audiences are :-) My email is:
I will wait to hear from you before continuing, and if I don't hear back from you within the next day or two I may respond here anyway...I assume that would be ok. Thanks again!
Elaine, thank you for your post, It helps remind me and others that we are not alone. And to let you all know, My name is Marsha, and If you want to contact me email, is, email@example.com. I love to make a circle of friends. I donot drive and stay home unless hubby takes me anywhere. We dont get much of a chance to go places either. Don't get me wrong, MY MOTHER is worth it!!
I also will ask as someone mentioned above about the Medicines Mom takes IF that MAY have something to do with the Dementia/Alzheimers.
2 more days I will return here to let you all know what has been said from Fridays Dr, appointment w/ the Hearing test. GB....


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Kathryn Scott-Robinson speaks to the congregation at Faith Clinic Ministries Church of God in Christ Wednesday night, July 16, 2014, at a vigil for her daughter, Diamond Scott, killed in an auto accident on Monday. To the right of Scott-Robinson is Zachary Hicks, pastor of the church. / Katrease Stafford/Detroit Free Press
Diamond Scott, 23, of Detroit was killed in a car crash on July 14, 2014. / Photo courtesy of Adrienne Mills
Diamond Scott was selfless, a giver who never hesitated to come to the aid of others.
Scott, 23, was unique in every way possible, according to her mother, Kathryn Scott-Robinson.
Scott's church, Faith Clinic Ministries Church of God in Christ, held a vigil in her memory tonight. Nearly 100 family members, friends and neighbors gathered to mourn a life cut short too soon. Congregation members many wearing shirts emblazoned with Scott's picture cried as they lit candles and prayed for strength.
"She loved everyone," Scott-Robinson said, sobbing. "Everyone she came in contact with, she loved. She was a giver. I'm going to miss her. I know her spirit lives on in mine.
Scott, a senior at Wayne State University, was killed early Monday when her car was broadsided by a silver Ford Taurus, driven by a man who police suspect ran a red light. The other driver, whose name has not been released, was injured.
Scott was set to donate a kidney to a fellow church member, 20-year-old Ronald White.
Scott, the youngest in her family, has three older brothers and was seen by many as the caregiver.
Zachary Hicks, pastor of the church, said Scott had a full life ahead of her and had just accepted a job in human services in Baton Rouge, La.
Monday morning, she was on her way to pick up her mother, who had returned from a trip to Chicago.
"She was a good girl," Scott-Robinson said. "She wanted to give him a kidney. It all started with her wanting to give me one."
Scott-Robinson, who is on kidney dialysis, said her daughter also attempted to see if she would be a kidney match for her. When the test results showed she wouldn't be a good match, her daughter still wanted to find a way to help someone else.
"She came to church and said the Lord spoke to her about Ron needing a kidney," she said. "About a week and a half ago, the tests said they were a perfect match. She was ready to do what God had given her. That's just one of the things that sums up who she was. She didn't boast about anything, to her it was just something she was supposed to do. That was my diamond in the rough."
Scott-Robinson said she always considered her daughter to be a miracleeven before she was born.
"I wasn't even supposed to be able to have her," she said. "I had one doctor tell me I wasn't going to make it with carrying her.... Just because you're breathing this minute, don't take it for granted. Thank God every chance you get. Love your family and keep them close. I kept my baby close."
A memorial fund will be set up in Scott's name through PNC Bank, intended to pay burial costs as well as help young people who wish to further their education. Funeral arrangements are pending, Hicks said.
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By the mid-1980s, "attachment labs" had sprung up around the United States—at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of California, Davis and Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota, among others. There, social and developmental research psychologists not only observed mothers and babies, but began to study the long-term effects of secure and insecure attachment on adolescents and adults. As children who'd undergone the Strange Situation experiment grew up, they were studied to determine the continuity of early attachment patterns in their development. The University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, led by Alan Sroufe, has been running a longitudinal study of parents and children since 1976, focusing on the role of attachment and other issues on individual development (see p. 38).
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It was one thing to provide a theoretical explanation of people's unhappy attachment experiences; it was another to develop therapeutic approaches by which clients could get beyond the limits of those early experiences. Bowlby himself, never an early-attachment determinist (he believed that it was never too late to change), thought that a therapist could provide what the parents hadn't—a safe, dependable, empathetic, and attuned presence that would enable the client to do some of the "growing up" he/she couldn't afford to do in the unsafe early environment. Attachment theory seemed to suggest that what mattered most in this clinical relationship was the therapist's capacity for emotional attunement—the ability to hear, see, sense, interpret, and respond to the client's verbal and nonverbal cues in a way that communicated to the client that he/she was genuinely seen, felt, and understood. Attachment research had emphasized the psychobiological core of attunement between mother and child—the continual, subtle, body-based, interactive exchange of looks, vocalizations, body language, eye contact, and speech. Attunement—or "contingent communication," as Daniel Siegel coined it—was really a highly complex, supremely delicate, interpersonal dance between two biological/psychological systems. If this contingent communication was a characteristic of healthy attachments between parent and child, or between husband and wife, or friend and friend, then wasn't it also critical to good therapy?
Of course, the idea that therapists should establish a close, empathic bond with clients—provide "unconditional positive regard" and a "corrective emotional experience" for clients—was old hat, at least for psychodynamic therapists. But at a time when brief, technical, pragmatic therapies were all the rage, attachment research seemed to offer genuine scientific validation for a deeper, emotion-focused approach that took infancy and early childhood seriously. The rich, evocative descriptions of attachment theory, the basic allure of it (what could be more appealing, more psychologically nourishing, than mother-love?), the very fact that such a pretty package was gaining scientific heft made it almost irresistible to many therapists. While attachment theory in itself didn't provide an accompanying toolbox of tactics and techniques, it did offer a new therapeutic attitude, justifying deep, soul-felt work, which would offer the client a genuinely new beginning.
Even so, it's still possible that attachment theory wouldn't have "caught on" if a virtual revolution in brain science hadn't happened at the same time. Bowlby always believed that attachment was biologically necessary in itself for survival. Looking at attachment through the lens of neuroscience from the late '80s to the present, researchers found that the mother–child bond, in effect, began to knit together the neural filaments of the newly emerging baby-brain—literally altering both the structure and activity of neural connections. In 1994, UCLA psychology researcher and therapist Allan Schore explained in his multidisciplinary book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, how the back-and-forth interaction between parent and infant regulates the swirling sea of intense, turbulent emotions registering in the baby's brain. In the process, the attuned parent is actually helping the baby begin to develop the neurological capacity to regulate his/her own emotions.
Schore's synthesis comprised a psychoneurobiological theory of human emotional development from infancy. The book wasn't about psychotherapy, per se, but he did discuss certain serious clinical issues that originated in poor early attachment—personality disorders, for instance. He quoted UCLA psychiatry professor and psychoanalyst James Grotstein, writing in 1986, that "All psychopathology constitutes primary or secondary disorders of bonding or attachment and manifests itself as disorders of self- and/or interactional regulation." Putting it crudely, the insecurely attached infant never got the maternal neural imprinting that would help her learn to regulate her own nervous system, thus making her susceptible to uncontrollable storms of inconvenient and unpleasant feelings throughout much of her life. Unless, that is, she got the chance at neurobiological-psychological repair from an attuned therapist, ready to meet her emotionally where she was—via nonverbal, affect-mediating, right-brain-to-right-brain communication—to help her undertake a kind of affective makeover.
Schore's book and two that followed (Affect Dysregulation and the Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self) received rave reviews from the psychiatric and psychoanalytic establishment, as well as the attachment and neuroscience research communities. But these technical, abstract, scholarly works aren't for the casual reader at the beach, or for those without at least some fairly intense grounding in neuroscience. What was needed was somebody who could make this complex, deep, basso profundo material sing in a lighter voice, appealing to a broader clinical constituency.
Of the core group of therapists influenced by attachment theory in the late 1980s and early '90s, that person turned out to be Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to its collective bosom. Siegel's own discovery of attachment theory reads like a conversion story. As a newly hatched resident psychiatrist at UCLA in the mid-'80s, he was disillusioned by the professional infatuation with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and medications—the growing tendency of his colleagues to see patients for half an hour, assign them a ready-to-wear diagnosis, prescribe medications, and send them off until it was time for their next meds check. In 1988, when he was a fellow in child psychiatry and pediatrics, he heard Mary Main give a talk about her work with the AAI and how it demonstrated adults' capacity for "coherent narrative," which was related to how they made sense of their attachment histories. For Siegel, the rest, as they say, was history. He was particularly struck by the fact that if adults could, through therapy or other reparative life experience, learn to create a reflective, coherent, and emotionally rich story about their own childhoods—no matter how neglectful, abusive, or inadequate—they could "earn" the emotional security they'd missed and still be able to form a good relationship with their own children. "I loved the way attachment research showed that fate (having less-than-perfect parents) isn't necessarily destiny," says Siegel. "If you can make sense of your life story, you can change it."


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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- WWE superstar John Cena granted his 300th wish to a 7-year-old Pennsylvania boy with a spinal condition, continuing his streak as the most popular celebrity granter in Make-A-Wish Foundation history.
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Jonny Littman wanted to meet his hero, and the WWE accommodated that wish Monday night before an episode of "Raw" live from New York's Long Island. But Jonny got a bonus to his wish.
On Wednesday morning, Jonny was being interviewed on "Good Morning America" when Sam Champion asked him about his green T-shirt. After Jonny told him it was John Cena, Champion asked if anyone knew the WWE Superstar.
The pro wrestler and actor walked out to Jonny's surprise and presented him with another gift. This time it was tickets for him and his family to attend the 1,000th episode of the WWE show.
To put Cena's 300 granted wishes in perspective, Michael Jordan has granted around 200 and Kobe Bryant is in the 100-wish range.
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"I truly give hats off to Make-A-Wish for keeping statistics," Cena said Monday before the show. "They had a nice little celebration for me at 200, and I humbly said we should do it at 1,000.
"We're just getting started," he said enthusiastically. But Cena was clearly touched by the latest one.
"I'm just flattered completely that I could be the wish," he said.
Jonny, from Hop Bottom, Pa., has severe congenital malformation and spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. He spoke to his hero for a few minutes and took some pictures with him.
He even put on his WWE Championship belt. His mother, Ruth, says his surgeons wore it during his last surgery.
After signing T-shirts and WWE merchandise and presenting him with a videogame system, the superstar graciously walked out of the room. Cena prepared for his featured match, and Jonny and his family waited to go into the Nassau Coliseum for a live televised weekly show, "Raw."
After he left the room, Jonny chanted: "Cena. John Cena. Cena."
Cena is following a WWE tradition of granting wishes. The organization grants about 140 wishes per year between requests to meet WWE Superstars or attend its live shows. The tradition started in the early 1980s with Hulk Hogan being the most requested.
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And while these wishes make children with life-threatening medical conditions feel good for the moment, organizers say they also have a lasting effect.
Make-A-Wish CEO David Williams cites cases in which seriously ill children clung to life for weeks and sometimes months in anticipation of the wish. Surveys by his organization found that many doctors and nurses felt the wish had a physical benefit to the patient, and most families said a wish strengthened the entire family at a fragile time.
"They said it was a very much needed boost," Williams said.
The organization has 30,000 volunteers who help carry out the wishes. Corporations, airlines, hotels, and other donors assure that most wish requests are met.
Still, Williams said, "Every year in the U.S., 27,000 are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and the organization serves about 14,000. For every family that we're helping, there's a child that we are not."
As for Cena, "I know this is the entertainment business and there will come a time when I'm not requested, but I'll still be donating my time and money, I love what they do."
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