April Meeting at JSUMC

Our speaker introduced herself as E. Tonya Greenwood, a Project Outreach Coordinator with Community Outreach, a part of Meridian Corporate. What they do is go into the community and do health education.

Everybody can laugh, she explained, because laughter is inherent, but not everybody has a sense of humor, because it’s acquired.

Tonya gave us some exercises. For one, we just laughed for ten seconds - twice. Laughter is good exercise, she said; it releases endorphins, which make you feel better.

For another, we read an alphabet aloud. It’s reproduced below. It didn’t seem funny when we first read it, but read it over, find yourself in it, and laugh at yourself.

A joke is not always appropriate; you need to know where the other person is. You don’t laugh at anyone or anything. You can laugh at yourself or with people. Or you can just laugh. Laughter is catching.

Told by a nun: two potatoes sit on a curb; which is the prostitute? The one that says “I da ho’.”

When you have a challenge - don’t call it a problem - you get through, or around, or over it, don’t stay in it, and laughter is the best thing to get you out of it.

A’s for arthritis, B’s the bad back,
C’s the chest pains, Perhaps car-d-ac?
D is for dental decay and decline,
E is for eyesight, can’t read that top line!
F is for fissures and fluid retention,
G is for gas which we’d rather not mention.
H high blood pressure - We’d rather it low;
I for incisions with scars you can show
J is for joints, out of socket, won’t mend,
K is for knees that crack when they bend.
L’s for libido, what happened to sex?
M is for memory; we forget what comes next.
N is neuralgia, in nerves way down low;
O is for osteo, bones that don’t grow!
P for prescriptions. We have quite a few,
Just give us a pill and we’ll be good as new!
Q is for queasy, is it fatal or flu?
R is for reflux, one meal turns to two.
S is for sleepless nights, counting our fears,
T is for Tinnitus; bells in our ears!
U is for urinary; troubles with flow;
V for vertigo, that’s “dizzy,” you know.
W is for worry, NOW what’s going ‘round?
X is for X-ray, and what might be found.
Y for another year we are left here behind,
Z is for zest WE still have - in our minds.
We’ve survived all the symptoms, our body’s deployed, and
We’re keeping twenty-six doctors fully employed.