2012
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January
February
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your President,
Happy New Year to all our members and friends around the world!
The New Year is one of the oldest celebrated holidays in history; celebrated all around the globe. When the clock strikes twelve, everyone gets a kiss and starts singing the most popular New Year song of all. It is an old familiar Scottish tune, “Auld Lang Syne”, meaning Times Gone By. The words ask whether old times and friends will be forgotten, then promises to remember people of the past with fondness.
New Year’s is a time when many of us make resolutions that we have a hard time keeping. They may actually cause us to move more rapidly instead of helping us slow down. We over-schedule our days, rush through meals, drive impatiently,and then wonder why we are so fatigued. Take your time! Each year some of us make losing weight as the top New Years resolution. The American Journal of Prevention Medicine reports people who lose weight regain a third of it within a year. Why? Perhaps we can find the answers during our programs this year. Make attending our programs and reading your Polio Post News a priority.
Before we go further, I’d like to thank John Hawksley for the donation in memory of Jerry Raville, Co-Founder of our support group. And let me also thank each one of you who sent Christmas cards with personal notes to me and to my daughter Shirley. You and our neighbors all made sure Jerry’s spirit and memories were with us during our first Christmas without him. We all missed him but he is very much present.
On November 13th Alinda Stoothoff, from The Centers, prepared us for the holidays with a fun program, “Stress Busters!”. It was a fun way to learn how stress can affect our lives and health and what we can do about it. Sharon and Ron Daszczynski prepared Thanksgiving refreshments enjoyed by all. Our thanks to you both.
What a fantastic end of the year program and luncheon we had; there were 52 in attendance. Be sure and read Sharion Daszczynski ‘s summary of the program presented by our guest speakers, Robert M. Kellogg, CPT, USN, and Andrea L. Behrman, PhD, PT. Thank each one of you who shared cookies with us. I also thank Hila Lane for her special punch.
I will soon be calling some of you to participate in the University of Florida’s Department of Physical Therapy neuro-rehab course as”guest instructors”. The date will be February 22nd; I will need 20 survivors to volunteer.
It brings me great sadness to announce the death of our very dear friend, Richard R. Owen, M.D. Dr. Owen and his wife Amy have been very dear friends for a long time. Amy called me the morning after he died on December 11th. Dr. Owen, a survivor of polio, was founder of the Sister Kenny Post Polio Clinic in Minnesota. He was involved with other doctors who met at Warm Springs, Georgia, for the first research conference on the late effects of poliomyelitis. I met Dr. Owen and Amy during the first symposium held in Orlando, Florida, around 1986 or 1987. We became close friends over the years. We were honored to have him as key speaker fort two of the North Central Florida Post-Polio Group conferences. One of his loves was to talk to children in the schools about polio. I am sure Amy has many happy memories, as we surely do.
I have chosen as our theme for 2012, “Make Healthy Resolutions and Keep Them!”. Last year as a group we made a list of personal goals, but I am not too sure we followed through keeping them. I would like for each one of you to bring a written goal with you to our program on January 15 to be shared in our next Polio Post News. Please note the 15th falls on the third Sunday in January. We changed it because of Christmas falling on a Sunday this year and pushing us to get our Polio Post News to the printer and in the mail on time.
Many of us are experiencing balance problems. Our group’s therapist, Fred Shirley, MS, PT, CEAS, will be our special speaker on Sunday January 15th. Fred will speak on “The Balancing Act”. You don’t want to miss this one. We all need to be in better balance!
February is Heart month. Do you know, our heart beats approximately 100,000 times each day? It is so important to take care of our heart by eating a healthy diet. Our heart is the most important muscle we have. The speaker for our February 12th program will be Daniel Rieders, FACC, FHRS, assisted by his nurse, Claudia Urfirer. The title for Dr. Rieders’ program will be “What Makes You Tick?”. Dr. Rieders is an Electrophysiologist and will explain the different types of heart arythmias and how a heart arythmia condition develops.
Two great programs to begin our journey through 2012!! I am looking forward to seeing what this New Year will bring to us!