Take it and tell them it's none of their business if they ask. When I had my cancer operation I took a bunch of ziplock bags full of vitamins for every day. I laid them on the bed stand so I could get to them. Doctors asked me what they were and I said my vitamins. Their response--'well, they won't hurt you'. The nurses asked and I told them. Their response--'good for you, I take them too".
Now of course, CS is different from vitamins. BUT--it's YOUR body, YOU are paying the bill and if YOU want to take CS, they have no right to stop you. It's good that the stretches helped. Did it get you out of pain yet? If it did, then you don't need the surgery IF you continue to do the stretches. Because if the stretches get you out of pain, that means that the reason for the surgery isn't valid. In the book--remember where he said he went over to talk to the lady at the kids basketball game? She looked as if she was in so much pain so he went over to talk to her and said "arthritis" and she said yes. He gave her a quick little stretch to do and said "now how do you feel" and she said--painless. He said "do you know what that means?"--expecting her not to know. But she surprised him and said--'it means I don't have arthritis, like the doctors told me'. He said "that's correct--you are using the wrong muscles to do the job". So--if these stretches work for you, then this means the surgery is not necessary. If they haven't totally gotten you out of pain it could be that 1) you haven't done them long enough yet or 2) you are not doing them correctly. Do you have someone to compare your poses with the poses in the book? If so, if they look the same, then perhaps you should write to the clinic at www.egoscue.com for, I think it use to be $150 you can send them photos of you standing and tell them your problem, and they'll give you specific stretches that will take care of it. But they will tell you whether or not the stretches will help once you tell them your problem and they see your photos. Good luck. Samala, Renee -------Original Message------- I am scheduled for knee replacement surgery in a couple of weeks. I would like to bring in some EIS. Dee used an empty drinking bottle with her name on the lid. How do you get the bottle past the nurses? I also would like to bring in some B-12. I tried the Pain Free knee exercises and they did reduce the pain. I told my DR about the exercises and he said great you need to do them even after surgery. I bought my tree colorant (paint) from an East Coast outfit, so I don't think the yellow pine needles are only common on the West Coast. I saw Christmas trees shipped from North Carolina that were sprayed with the colorant. I talked to a worker at a huge Montana tree farm who said they do not spray their pines until just before harvest. He used a tractor that sprayed colorant on ten rows at a time. One year I sprayed spruce trees with a blue colorant sample, enough for about 50 trees. A commercial buyer followed me and tagged every tree I just sprayed. Every spruce looked like a blue spruce. Brickey
