sometimes i get in such a mental situation that i could care less who knew what about TM
________________________________ From: kevin weilacher <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> To: pat cooley <patticoole...@gmail.com>; Akua <a...@artfarm.com> Cc: "tmic-list@eskimo.com" <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] Neurology Now on TM This is a note that I sent to Akua after she posted her note.... Akua, I have to tell you....that I've been writing to Neurology Now for the last year or more, asking them to do a story on TM.... and a long time ago they mentioned that they had considered it.... and I wrote them back and asked them if they would do a story that covered all aspects of TM...from the bad, with people that have had minimal recovery, such as you, to people that have had better recovery.... So that TM could be shown in all lights, so that it would more understood.... But of course, the magazine had to do a story on someone that had a more recognizable name such as Allen....which in one way is good....but it still doesn't give the "whole story". I was glad to see the article....but kind of bummed that they chose to do the article the way they did... I was also glad to see that they did put the TM Network website in there as one of the information and reference websites since Greg and I have worked so hard at building it up. So, as you said Pat....we all are very different in how TM affects each of us....and I would have liked to have seen an article that showed that....but the magazine only highlighted one person which is not a very good perspective on TM in general... I was very happy to see the coverage of TM....don't get me wrong.....I just wish that it would have been an article that showed the good, bad and ugly... Oh well....at least it's a step in the right direction as far as getting some more awareness out there... Kevin N.E. Ohio (Canton) ________________________________ From: pat cooley <patticoole...@gmail.com> To: Akua <a...@artfarm.com> Cc: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] Neurology Now on TM One thing I have discovered that with TM we all are so different as to how TM affects us. I could cross my legs but I would have to help them get there with my hand. However, it would not be comfortable to keep them that way for more than a minute. Rucker is lucky that he can do so with comfor. Patti - Wisconsin On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Akua <a...@artfarm.com> wrote: Neurology Now ( free sub) has an article on TM in its Oct/Nov 2011 issue focusing on Allen Rucker. >Kevin Sorbo is on the cover. > >I was glad to see the coverage! > >I was surprised at the picture of Rucker. I've told my friends who send me >vids about a "tell" , that I use to assess whether the person is in the same >state as I am: crossed legs. I can't move my legs, I am paralyzed, I tell >them. So when tehy asks why or whether I can do such and such I point out to >them that the guy who just got out the car from his wheel chair crossed his >legs at the ankle, for example. > >My legs splay, flop and gap and my feet don't always stay on the foot rests. >Which makes for danger if i don't notice, as more than once, I've rolled on >with an ankle stuck in a doorway. > >So it was a bit disconcerting to see this guy with his legs crossed, thigh >over thigh, like a walker, posed in his wheelchair. That's a thousand percent >more motion and control than I have. > >-- > >
