As far as Alan ever doing physical work in his life, let me put it this way. He sat on the couch during our marriage.

When he went to work, he carried a big bag full of supboenas. Now THAT migh have thrown his back out. But he rarely complained of back pain.

He did however break two or three seats in the cars he had at the time. The seats were always turned to a funny direction. He did this in all the car seats. Never could understand why, but that's how he drove.

Yesterday Dr. Fred did say (about the pn in his toes), Well, Alan might have some fibromyalgia going on".

And as far as the C-reactive protein thing, and his diet, This man eats only veggies, fiber, whey shakes, salads, nothing with sugar or salt.

So I have no idea what could be taken out of or added to his diet.

And his had a recent MRI last month right before we went to see Dr. Elowitz, the neurosurgeon who put his films on the wall and said "Oh, I see significant spinal stenosis but I cannot operate".

So how come some people CAN operate and others CAN'T.

Maybe it's in a place where they figure they might nick a nerve or something??

Melody