Yes, very interesting. I think that we all have this expectation of an endlessly plummeting line on our graphs, to one degree or another, and so far inevitable. I really believe that that expectation plays a huge part in how we view our bodies and what happens to them. After all, if in studies patients do better with pills that they are told cost $2.50 a pill than the patients who are given the same pills and told they cost ten cents a pill - this is a true study- our ideation about our conditions has got to have an enormous effect.

Yesterday an old friend of mine whom I see rarely told me that it seemed to him as if I were surfing my condition. I thought that was a really more accurate description, and I wanted to present it to you all because I think it's probably true for many....and if we looked at it that way, that alone might generate a different sense of the direction of our health.