Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Hello, My name is Gretta Determann. I have received the pleasure to work with Mark Ravenscraft in his office and having an internship with the Capital Polio Association as Community affairs Coordinator. I attend Florida State University School (Florida High) in Tallahassee as a senior. My further plans are attending Florida State University next year and pursing my degree in either Forensic Science or Law. I enjoy cheer leading, cooking, scrap booking, going to the beach and shopping. I'm the middle child and have two sisters.I'm looking forward to updating and maintaining the blog! To start out I would like to share with you some exerts from two new letters Second Time Around & FLORIDA EAST COAST POST-POLIO SUPPORT GROUP - Vol. 16 #2.


The September 2009 issue of Second Time Around a publication of the Boca Area Post Polio Group gives the readers helpful tips about body temperature regulation in the article Too Hot And Too Cold: Causes and Solutions. The article describes how the body temperature works, heat production, management of temperature sensitivity and much more...."Causes of Cold Sensitivity: Normal genetic variant, Normal aging, Stress, Low body fat, Low basal metabolic rate, Reynaud's phenomenon, Poor circulation due to cardiovascular disease, Anemia, Iron deficiency, and Thiamine deficiency ".... Written by Carol Vandenakker, MD University of California & Davis Heath System, Davis, CA. Other fasinating article in Septembers issue are How to Lose Weight While Eating More Food, Cancer Update from John Hopkins, and more.

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Boca Area Post Polio Group (BAPPG) : http://postpolio.wordpress.com/



FLORIDA EAST COAST POST-POLIO SUPPORT GROUP - Vol. 16 #2
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2009

Full news letter at http://home.iag.net/~bgold/sep-oct-2009.htm

One Psychologists Perspective on the Polio Experience:Emotional Intelligence - Insight or Awareness.By Margy Hull, Ph.D


...."There are several circumstances that many of us who came down with polio in the fifties and before had in common. One of those is that we had long stretches of time with little to do but think. For some of us that long stretch of time was during the initial stage of the illness; for others, it was later during orthopedic surgery as we grew older and various kinds of corrections were made. TV was still limited in geographical extent and in programming, and computers were nonexistent. So if you could’t go out and play and run around, there was little to do except read, listen to the radio, and fool around with friends. This circumstance might be expected to give us the opportunity to do a lot of thinking, except for the fact that there was also often a diametrically opposed circumstance, social pressure to “stuff it.” It was a time when children, at least, were to be seen and not heard, there was little emphasis on explaining things to people – no one had heard of informed consent – and there was also little emphasis on learning how people felt about what was happening to them. There was a conventional wisdom about what led to the greatest and quickest recovery and that involved not complaining, working very hard, and maintaining a positive, optimistic attitude. In short, there was a lot of time to think, but a definite bias toward “accentuating the positive, eliminating the negative, and not messing with Mister In-Between.” It was in this context that we each had to develop our own insight"....

Reprinted from Iowa Polio Survivors, Inc., Jan Feb March 2009 newsletter.














Gretta Determann