Being deep in debt with poor credit has only one solution –– raise revenues and cut spending. Around my household some sacrifices would have to be made. Steak would be replaced with hamburger. The Range Rover in the driveway would be traded for a used Subaru. Most importantly, I would get a second job. I would never think of spending my way out of a fiscal crisis.
Continue Reading Add comment February 20th, 2008
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, COLORADO (Post Time News)–In the midst of massive construction, the Town of Snowmass Village is trying to remind tourists and travelers that there’s still a pretty fab mountain to be skied while the constuction continues.
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“Yes Dr. Ashish. Deal! I’ll move my right hamstring, I promise!” I made this statement with complete confidence…and in front of Dale, with both of our eyes focused on my lower right leg as I lay on my side isolating my upper body and hip flexors; I moved my right hamstring on command! My leg and foot moved backwards from the knee down. The movement was slight (an inch or two is all) but it was there. I then sat up with glee and said, “Let me try my toes.”
Continue Reading Add comment August 22nd, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–It’s like Bat Day at the stadium
The first 500 participant in the Snowmass Wellness Experience August 17-19, 2007, will take home a bagfull of goodies and good things.
Welcome bags include samples valued at $75 from companies like Fruitabu, Arrowhead Mills, Back To Nature, Nordic Naturals, Terra Chips, and Yogi Tea.
Continue Reading Add comment August 16th, 2007
I continue to feel strong and the lower half of my body is firing up with life. Every exercise I execute with Chavi each morning feels stronger. I have more control with my leg movements and I am learning to isolate different muscles. I can raise my knees up in a bent position from lying straight on the bed and amazingly, my ability to crawl backwards is consistent and powered by new muscles that have been asleep for fifteen years. With the slight use of my hip flexors, since my injury I have always been able to balance on my hands and knees and crawl forwards, but never backwards. I am astounded by my strength and new abilities. Although I am not kic king yet in the literal sense, I get a kick out of examining my limbs as they reclaim life. My hamstring on the left leg works when I least expect it, and occasionally in front of an audience. Call it performance anxiety, but I figure that muscle has been hibernating for such a long time, it will take a little while…and some more ‘waiting’ to bring it back to life in the normal sense.
Continue Reading Add comment August 12th, 2007
I am ecstatic to report that I am the proud owner of a very strong hamstring in the left leg. Yes, my lower left leg can now move backwards from the knee down to the foot on its own! This is a first!!!!! In fact, I feel my gluteus maximus beginning to kick in, along with other abdominal and leg muscles that haven’t felt alive for fifteen years. I have a weird sensation that I can deeply tense my calf muscles. The awareness in my lower limbs is strangely phenomenal—as if a little electrical current has been turned on filtering pins-and-needle tingles all the way to my toes. This is all apparent after my most recent two embryonic stem cell procedures. My body is waking up and I am both the audience watching synonymous with the actors playing out the motions. I applaud with glee at the slightest flicker of movement, and I sweat with exertion to fire-up a body part that has been paralyzed for what seems like an eternity.
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2007
Although I am not sure how to tactfully convey my ground breaking news to the world, I shall resort to the simple facts…I had my first bowel movement on my own in fifteen years last night. Yippee! I have also emptied my bladder completely on my own four times since yesterday with only a small residual of fluid left (which is normal). Now, Gab is a true friend. It was so funny I must share at least some of the facts.
Continue Reading Add comment July 29th, 2007
Today I had another stem cell procedure, which was less invasive than the previous. Dressed with my hair in a pony tail, my jeans unzipped, and a bottle green hospital gown open down the back I lay on my side in the fetal position in Dr. Ashish’s operating theater. A male assistant dressed in surgical blue stood over me like a guardian angel, holding my body in position on the two foot wide narrow table. Dr. Ashish injected two doses of stem cells into the muscles on either side of my injury site on my back…and that was it. Yes, it was over before I could count to a hundred. I was taken to my little room to rest for an hour or so with a fan humming loudly overhead, a good book, and the curry.
Continue Reading Add comment July 20th, 2007
I’m peeing! Yes, what a way to begin my communiqué, but this is a small miracle within itself. After 15 years of zero bladder control I am beginning to restore function. What most take for granted everyday (a simple tinkle into the loo) has been a silent dream of mine for years. Since my spinal tap with a massive dose of stem cells injected last Friday, I am happy to report that I have tinkled on my own sixteen times. I void approximately 50% on my own and then use my electronic stimulator to fully empty. I am hoping that with time I will be able to empty completely on my own accord. < /SPAN>I attribute the stem cells to this small but significant accomplishment. My toes on my left foot continue to wiggle ever so slightly – sometimes barely at all. A Russian neurosurgeon visiting Dr. Shroff confirmed that this is also a small miracle. After he viewed my digital MRIs and cat-scans he agreed that my new toe wiggle is something I should not be able to do at all given the massive extent of my injury. He also confirmed that the toe wiggle is not due to a muscle spasm and that I am actually doing it on my own. This was reassuring.
Continue Reading Add comment July 11th, 2007
Since 1984 Snowmass Village and Jazz Aspen Snowmas (JAS) have teamed up to present Snowmass’ free Thursday night concert series. These generous venues have attracted millions to Fanny Hill where locals, visitors, and freeloaders have the opportunity to take a trip back in time with legendary rock, soul, R&B and latin music artists.
“We are very excited about Marcia Ball she is a very wonderful jazz musician,” said Snowmass Village Public Relations Directory, Allison Johnson. “People Just love her, which is why she is coming back for the second time.”
This Thursday July 12, will feature Marcia Ball, an American blues singer and pianist. Recognized as an influential pianist, her unique style was inspired by y zydeco, swamp blues, and boogie woogie. Ball, who was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 1990, plays roadhouse rock, jump-blues, second line syncopation, R&B, deep soul, and ballads. Not only known for her marvelous piano playing skills but her gifted singing and songwriting that blend together to create and real and unique energy.
Starting June 28 and running through August 23, the evening starts on the hill at 6:00p.m., right next to the Snowmass Mall.
“We oversee the concert series,” said Mountain Groove Productions, Josh Behrman. “[Mountain Groove Productions] is contracted by the town of Snowmass Village to help with the Thursday night concerts specifically. JAS has been responsible for scouting talent, but we supervise all aspects.”
Behrman, who said has only been working with JAS on the free Thursday concerts for two years, indicated that a lot of work goes into the organization of these free concerts, but when it is all said and done everyone is happy.
Jill Merriam has announced bands and artists at the Thursday night concert series previously this summer and plans to do it again before the summer is over.
“It’s a fun free event that benefits the community, and a lot of cool people come out,” said Merriam. “All alcohol purchased goes to local charities, not to mention all the bands and musicians are great.”
Add comment July 10th, 2007