Slothism - by TPO

Slothism

By TPO

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Gets a New Name                     by David Tuller, "WELL" blogs, NY Times 2/10/2015  ____________________                   The Institute of Medicine on Tuesday proposed a new name and new diagnostic criteria for the condition that many still call chronic fatigue syndrome. ... An institute panel recommended that the illness be renamed “systemic exertion intolerance disease,” a term that reflects what patients, clinicians and researchers all agree is a core symptom: a sustained depletion of energy after minimal activity, called postexertional malaise.

*** My take on it:  Why don't they just call it what it is: SLOTHISM.

... and it is not a disease ... it is a predisposition!

Slothism is a perfectly normal state to be in when you are old!!!

       Sloth: medium-sized mammal belonging the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae … 
       Scientific name: Folivora

       Daily sleep:        15 – 18 hours

*** If you ask me, hanging on to a tree limb all day long is exhausting   
       work !!!

Armadillo by Morning - by TPO, David Petete, and D. Douglas Irby

 

TPO: 

Woke up yesterday morning thinking of the 8 years I had wasted in Texas ... then images of armadillos crept into my head ... followed by the song "Amarillo by Morning" ... only the song morphed to "Armadillo by Morning"!!!
Strangely enough, somebody named Petete must have had that same experience a while back ... and put it in a song album.

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 David Petete:- 
[click the link below to listen to the song, then go back one page ( < ) to come back here.]
Armadillo by Morning

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"Armadillo by Morning"
by  D. Douglas Irby *
(with apologies to George Strait)  ////////////

Armadillo by morning.
Road is hot as hell.
Everything that I got
is right inside my shell.
When the sun is high
in the Texas sky,
I'll be walking down the interstate.
Armadillo by morning.
Armadillo, seeking a mate.

I made a burrow in Houston.
Ate some grubs in Santa Fe.
Mated with a lunchbox
somewhere along the way.
I see a Lone Star can
in my cold dead hands
before the day is said and done.
Armadillo by morning.
Armadillo overrun.

Armadillo by morning,
eyesight's poor as hell.
Everything that I got
is right inside my shell.
I ain't got much time, 

'cause the road ain't kind.
But, the highway's always calling me.
Armadillo by evening.
Roadkill is what I'll be.
Armadillo by evening.
Roadkill is what I'll be.

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* -  © D. Douglas Irby