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To: E who wrote (21819)	4/15/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

>Then Lather read it and didn't think much of it, so i forgot it immediately.< Doesn't mean I'm anywhere near right! I have my own raft of prejudices. "Unimpressed" does not mean "advisedly so", so don't let me have that kind of authority. Biology is still pretty much a frontier science, so I should have the caution to not dismiss any theory out of hand. Except that gem about the fossil record being a frame-up by the Devil. Gonna have to use that somewhere somehow. (lol)

To: E who wrote (21819)	4/15/1999 8:01:00 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 71178

Hi E, Checking into local hotels for a night has been part of Dan's and my mental health routine since the babies were born. We're able to relax better knowing we're close to home if there's an emergency. THere's a whole ritual attached to the event-- we go to the used book store first for books to read, and the hotel MUST have a hot tub. One of the questions we ask is always -"But is your hot tub HOT?" We read in the hot tub, we sit around the pool and read. We take a bottle of wine and have a drink, we eat when we want, stay up late, and then he sleeps late (I never can, but I read). Then we have a nice breakfast, go back to the hot tub and read, and go home. What an exciting couple we are. You are so right about the nastiness of blaming illnesses on people; it's like the extreme Christian position that if you "ask Jesus into your heart" and he doesn't show, it's you're fault because you must not have prayed hard enough or something. It certainly isn't God's fault for failure to provide adequate evidence. I clearly remember the Health class we were required to take in college Freshmen year when the instructor informed us that cramps were all in our head, immediately making 35 eighteen year olds feel like neurotic wimps. My mother-in-law thinks people who have problems with menopause are head cases, too. She never had a hot flash, much less a complete personality change, while I just went through a year of Sibyllike behavior that took place in a dysfunctional oven. Of course that figures, because I'm a neurotic wimp who had cramps, too. Kids of shrinks are even worse than the shrinks themselves. THere is a simplistic theory that troubled people are lured into the psych field in a half-veiled attempt to understand themselves. I was a psych major and I admit we were a weird bunch-wimpy neurotics..

To: E who wrote (21819)	4/15/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You raise some interesting questions, E. For years, everyone knew that stomach ulcers were caused by stress, and when some bright fellow discovered that they were actually caused by helicobacter pilori, nobody wanted to believe it because it spoiled a perfectly good theory. This was only a couple of years ago, too. On the other hand, for years, I have known when I was stressing myself out too badly, because I would start to get a sore throat, and if I ignored it and kept bulling away (whether I had a choice or not), laryngitis or strep throat. I don't know if you have ever been involved in athletics, I used to lift weights, and I learned the hard way about over-training. If one doesn't let the muscles rest between workouts, and the time depends largely on one's own conditioning, the over-training effect sets in, with a low-grade fever, all over achiness, almost like having the flu. The body needs to rest to cure itself. It does seem awfully coincidental that I would come down with this disease at a time when 1)my formerly beloved partner dumped me, stole a case, and publicly trashed me; 2)my investments went to hell; 3)my husband started going over to a lady-friend's house on the weekends; and 4) I took a long vacation in my new truck, which involved driving me and the kids thousands of miles on my lonesome, sometimes for very long hours late at night. It also seems awfully coincidental that every time I get rid of a major stresser in my life, I feel much better. I agree, there is a tendency to "blame the victim." At the same time, it is empowering to think that I can control my own illness, by cleaning up my act, as it were.