Category Archives: Disease

Jul 26 0 comments
Disease, Quentin Crisp

>Health Consists of Having

>Day 7 of Disease Week at the Napkin Dad Daily presented
from San Diego California this week. I am here helping
to take care of my father, who went through surgery
to repair a broken hip. I am photographing the napkins
instead of scanning them, but that shouldn’t make a
crucial difference.

I tend to think this is more true with psychological
areas of health than elsewhere. What do you think?

quote by Quentin Crisp


Jul 25 0 comments
Disease, health

>Health Nuts

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I am in California helping to take care of my 91 year old father, who fell and broke his hip on Thursday. So, since I wasn’t able to get a drawing out this morning, here is a vintage one from the original napkin drawings I sent with my daughters’ lunches.

It is also disease week here at the daily so this napkin, though old, is completely in keeping with it!

Wish my dad luck on his surgery.

Thanks,
Marty Coleman

When I first started going to the gym (when I was 45 after I got a divorced) I wanted to get in shape. Pretty typical, I know. I also started thinking about why was everyone else there getting in shape. Who were all these ‘health nuts’ and what were they going to do with their great health?

I realized that to be in shape just to live a long life isn’t enough. Long lives in good shape can still be crappy if you are acting as a crappy person. Being fit and trim and a jerk isn’t of any value to the world. The reason I want to be fit and healthy is to allow myself the opportunity to become someone of value inside and then to share that good thing with the world. If I can’t improve my love and thoughtfulness and intelligence and support, then why bother improving the body? The body is the vehicle by which you achieve your goals. You can’t do it without your body and it is good if your body is in good shape. But for what? Love your body so you can love your neighbor and whoever else you come across.


Jul 23 1 comments
Disease, Faina Ranevskaya, health, pain, running

>Health is When Every Day

>Day 5 of fabulous Disease Week here at the Napkin Dad Daily.
Can a disease week even be fabulous?

At first I thought this applied to us old folk who wake up creaky in some
new part of our bods every morning. But then I thought about my life
as an active, fitness oriented person.

This started pretty late in life for me. I was 45 before I joined a gym.
About 50 when I started running and didn’t start doing it in any organized
fashion until last year. What I learned was that being fit and healthy is a
pain. I mean that literally. I had a new pain every day when I started at the
gym. I have aches in my calves one week, then in my foot the next, then in
my back, when I am training for a run. But I have come to learn that is
proof that I am healthy. I am working my body. It may not like it. It may
rebel and get mad at me. But it will appreciate it in the long run and thank me.

What about you, are you healthy enough to say it hurts in a new place every day?

quote by Faina Ranevskaya, 1896-1984, Russian Actress


Jul 22 0 comments
Bill Maher, Disease, gambling, obesity, sin

>Everything That Used To Be

>Day 4 of Disease Week at the Napkin Dad Daily.

Have you subscribed to the Daily yet? It will make your
brain bigger and your day better…every DAY!

I think this is true and I think it is good. I know we can
go overboard with designating behavior choices as a
disease. I know that the idea behind labeling something
sin is to connect it back directly to a moral choice a
person makes. I know that overdrinking, gambling, overeating
and more are a result of a choice we make. So, why isn’t
it ok to just call a sin a sin and be done with it.

The reason is that we are interested in stopping the behavior.
To stop a behavior it is best to understand it as completely
as possible. To understand it might mean we come to realize
there is more going on than just a simple choice. We learn
about brain function, about genes, about family histories,
about psychological and emotional trauma. We learn a lot.

In the end there must be a choice made. But knowing the cure
for your disease involves a choice on your part doesn’t mean
it isn’t a disease. It means you have ultimate control over your
disease. How great is that compared to someone with cancer
or MS or a million other diseases you can’t control.

Take advantage of your ability to control. Make your choice,
every day.

quote by Bill Maher, American comedian and commentator


Jul 21 0 comments
Disease, William Osler

>It Is Much More Important

>Day 3 of ‘Disease Week’ on the Napkin Dad Daily. Think
of a doctor, nurse, or patient you know and forward these
to them. The ideas are good for you, like Bran Flakes, but
in color and on a napkin and inedible.

Are you training for when you have a disease? Are you practicing being
positive, realistic, disciplined, persevering? Are you building your sense
of humor in the face of bad times? Are you teachable about what you
are going through, what direction you can take to improve your chances?

Just as with any new challenge that comes upon us, if we practice who
we want to be, it will be much easier to be that when the moment comes
when we need to act in the best possible way. Being prepared for a job,
a marriage, a tragedy or a disease, whether yours or someone elses, isn’t
impossible. We can’t be completely prepared, but we can prepare as best
we can.

What are you prepared for?

quote by William Osler, Canadian Physician, 1849-1919


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