noneeeed · HackerTrans

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Thanks. Luckily we managed to get her into a really good home for the last few months, which made the end easier on her, but that kind of age and innactivity related decline is a rubbish way to end your life. It's made me rather evangelical about keeping moving.

noneeeed

5 jaar geledendiscuss

This is ultimately what killed my mum. She stopped moving. Once that happens so many things in the body just don't work so well. Combined with her other ailments her body just didn't work properly any more.

She initially went down-hill after she was weaned off the steroids she had been on during treatment for a benign brain tumour. Obviously the tumour and the radiotherapy didn't help things, but her health dropped off a cliff when the steroids stopped, she lost all her strength. I often wonder if she'd still be around now if they had just kept her on them and worked on her mobility.

Keep moving. You don't have to run marathons or go to the gym for it to have a positive effect.

noneeeed

6 jaar geledendiscuss

It sounds a bit like having a cochlear implant fitted late in life. I've heard that you can listen to music you know well and your brain will fill in all the details, but anything new just sounds terribly low def and isn't really enjoyable.

noneeeed

7 jaar geledendiscuss

To me, this issue is one of the biggies. I understand where that feeling comes from, we are constantly told that everything is a competition or a race.

My wife and my sister are both teachers (languages and physics respectively), and they often encounter parents like that, who insist that their kid can do no wrong, or cannot be allowed to fail (or that any failure is someone elses fault), and it breaks the kids. Some of the kids understand what's going on and do well in spite of their parents, but others become convinced that either they don't have to take responsibility for anything, or insist on doing courses they are simply not going to do well in (like if you have solid Ds in Maths and the sciences, don't insist on doing A-level Physics, and no you are not going to medical school).

My wife's school had a family where all the kids were hard-working, conciencious and all-round lovely, but everyone dreaded dealing with the parents. Any time a kid got a bad mark in anything they would be on the phone demanding an explanation. The kids were always fine about it and knew when they had not worked on something. They sounded permentantly embarressed by their parents.

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