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...that are seasonal, expensive or too solitary--each one a handy excuse for not sticking with your workout program. If you can afford it or if your gym or health club offers it, try to work with a personal trainer at least some of the time--someone who can rein you in when you're doing something wrong, applaud when you're doing something right and, perhaps most important, make you feel guilty if you don't show up at all. Trainers are also good at knowing which muscle groups you need to strengthen for a sport...
...Willie Terpstra badly needs help herself. Last year, mystified by the sudden slurring of her speech, the lively 64-year-old from Rotorua, New Zealand, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and told she had two or three years left. With her speech deteriorating, she flew with her husband Rein to Holland, from where they migrated two decades ago, desperately seeking treatment. "But they told us the same thing - there's really nothing," says Rein. Then he and Willie heard of Dr. Huang...
...nothing or killing them," says Brian Dickie, research director at the British MND Association, which, like its Australian counterpart, urges sufferers to be cautious. "People are going over there and having God knows what put into them, and then being packed off home with no follow-up." Willie and Rein have received hundreds of messages from well-wishers but had no contact with Huang's team since their return, except for an mri scan sent to them with an e-mail in Mandarin...
...impressive improvements. While Willie Terpstra hasn't regained her speech, her headaches and cramps are gone, and she comfortably drinks fruit juice while communicating with visitors on her electronic typewriter. "He said, 'I know it works, but I don't know how or why or for how long,'" says Rein of Huang. "But at least it will give Willie a better quality of life for some time." For people robbed of movement, says Gary Allsop, a director of Spinal Cure Australia who's been in a wheelchair since an accident 16 years ago, even small gains can be miracles...
...know exactly what you're doing, quite apart from the ethical issues" - but believes the doctor should continue his work: "Every adult should make their own choice. And even if there's limited success, it will teach us something." At their home in Rotorua, filled with pets and photos, Rein says he'd hoped for more from the surgery, but is grateful for any more time he and Willie have together. "I had nothing else," Willie types. "And if I didn't do it, I would always wonder, what...