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Sidebar:---
The Internet knows no boundaries. Dr. Wang's piece on
"Insomnia" --- while not about
nutrition--- still Dr. Wang's advice comes to us as "ripples" touching such unknown shores as my cousin Mike in Clearwater/St.
Petersburg, FL and then on to his
friend, Daveed in England. Come learn of the amazing
power of such "Ripples" as
these. Read on:---
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What follows here below is a
short series of e-mails between myself and my cousin, Mike Downey, and my
friend, Dr. Hugh Wang advising us all on how to best combat INSOMNIA. And
his advice may well prove to be helpful to all who now read of it, but what is
so amazing to what follows here are the "ripples' that Dr. Wang has sent to unknown
shores, including my cousin, Mike, and his friend in England, Daveed.
Enjoy and reflect upon these "ripples" of which you
now read--- for they have now touched you as well...
...Bruce**********
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike
To: H. Bruce Downey
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Insomnia...and the "ripples" go out...again...thanks to
our York '52 friend, Dr. Hugh Wang
Bruce, I normally don't clutter my
mind with computer e-mails just at bed time, but last night I made an exception
to my rule, and read one, e-mail just as I was readying my mind and body for
bed, at this point I had only 6 hours sleep since being home from the
Hospital on Monday night. I read your e-mail. Gave it some heavy thought, then
thinking of a new friend I have just made, a Jewish man, who lives in the south
of England. He too has had problems of insomnia for years now, also he suffers
with Headaches. So thinking of him, I forwarded your e-mail after deleting all
e-mail address off it. I made him a note, to try reading it and see if it can
help him clear his mind and give him a good nights rest too.
As I hit the send button, I
must have fallen off to sleep in my computer chair, which is quite comfortable I
might add.
I awoke this Morning in
my bed, aprox. 9 hours after sending that e-mail. Some time during the night, my
wife Sandy, found me asleep in my computer chair, walked me to my side of the
bed, where she said I climbed into our new sleep number bed, and off to the land
of Nod I went. My wife doesn't ever touch my computer, and I hers, except to do
computer maintenance is the only time I touch her computer, So she left my
computer on, with your e-mail and the embedded music playing all night long.
From our bed room I can barely, hear it. But none the less, I awoke hearing
a very low sound of the music coming from my computer room.
Feeling refreshed from a
great nights sleep, I checked my e-mail, and from my new found friend
Daveed, was an e-mail. He wrote: Mike, Headache gone, I have never had such
a great nights sleep in years. Thanks for the e-mail and tips of sleep
inducement, Signed,
  Daveed
So now I ask myself, what was it? Did I clear my mind? was
it the soft music? or The ripples of time across the
Atlantic?
Thank
you,
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: H. Bruce Downey
To: Dave Buswell '52 ; JOHN W BARTMANN ; Austin Swartz, 52 ; Dick
Leonard '52 and '56 ; Jane Swanson Keller ; mike scahill ; Howard Malstrom ;
Forrest Rank ; Dick Benjamin '52 ; Ken Jones ; Ken Jones ; Nancy Brown Garippo ;
Carolyne Larson Jordan ; Patrick Lira '52 ; Phyllis Durham '52 ; Punky Stevens
'52 ; Tom Hodge '52 ; Wayne Mahood ; Carroll Knight ; David & Nancy Kors ;
Ted Truske '52 ; Alice Mahler Ashley ; Marge Schwarz '52
Cc: Malcolm Ing, M.D. ; Hugh Wang
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:55 PM
Subject: Insomnia...and the "ripples" go out...again...thanks to our
York '52 friend, Dr. Hugh Wang
After my cousin Mike
Downey's operation on Monday of this week, he told me that he
was having trouble falling asleep. And so I asked our York '52 friend
and my mentor, Dr. Hugh Wang--- a retired MD who now
works 4-days a week as a shopping mall security guard so that he can walk
his 12-18 miles a day and get paid for it--- for some advice to help Mike get
some much needed sleep.
Hugh promptly responded with what
for me was some really surprising advice on how best to combat insomnia.
I share with you all 'ratch hyar 'n nah' what
Dr. Wang has to say on this subject, should any of you ever
encounter similar problems of your own from time to time.
Thanks, Hugh. And your
"ripples" continue to go to shores
unknown.
...Bruce***********
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeannine and Hugh Wang"
To: "H. Bruce Downey"
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: Insomnia
Hi, Bruce & Mike:
Pain, disturbing thoughts, anxiety,
uncomfortable sleeping positions,
a bad mattress, cold feet, and
probably some other causes I can't
recall will keep you
awake.
Here are some of my "tricks" for helping you fall
asleep.
1-No caffeine, chocolate, or sugar (all
stimulants)
2-get comfortable
3-warm milk if you are not
allergic or lactose intolerant or an
herbal non-caffeinated mildly
sedating tea just before bedtime
4-a short soak (no more than 5
minutes) in a hot tub, Jacuzzi, or a
tub with warm
water
5-Your mind cannot stand a blank, so you must fill it w/ busy
work to
crowd out disturbing thoughts.
6-counting anything
will not work because it is too easy and routine
7-Do these mental
chores, do them all if you're still awake, and then
start all
over.
8-Hopefully at some point you will fall asleep. If you
can remember
which one you ended at, start w/ that one the next
night
9-Count backwards from 100, subtracting 7 each
time.
10-Recite the alphabet backwards.
11-Starting w/ Z
visualize the letters doing funny things:
cartwheeling across the
inside of your forehead like you're watching a
screen
Lighting up like a neon sign
blinking
A lighted arrow pointing to it like
a motel sign
Going from lower case to upper
case, from tiny to larger and larger
Falling
into a pool, sparking and shorting out
Use
your imagination
12-Wash your imaginary car in exquisite detail: open
the door, sit,
start, back the car out, turn the engine off, make
sure all the
windows are up, wet the
car,
Measure out soap in the cap of the jug,
pour it into a bucket,
observe it trickling and spreading over the
bottom
Pull out the hose to enough length to
reach the back bumper and
opposite side of the car, wet the car, fill
the bucket
Get the sponge, you get the
drill. Don't forget to wash the
car and dry it. Polish
it
13-Take a mental trip either to somewhere you really enjoyed or
last
read about in a travel mag filling in the details. Hear
the sounds,
smell the smells, argue with the vendors.
14-Go
back to a pleasant childhood scene.
15-Think of a really boring job
you had, and do it (mentally, of
course). Mowing the lawn might
be an example. Don't forget to fill
the gas tank or plug it in
if it's electric.
Mow in different
patterns. Don't forget the finishing touches
like
edging.
16-Your
turn
ZZzzz
zzz
zz
z
----- Original Message -----
From:
H. Bruce Downey
To: Mike
Cc: Dave Buswell '52 ; JOHN W
BARTMANN ; Austin Swartz, 52 ; Dick Leonard '52 and '56 ; Jane Swanson
Keller ; mike scahill ; Howard Malstrom ; Forrest Rank ; Dick Benjamin '52 ;
Ken Jones ; Ken Jones ; Nancy Brown Garippo ; Carolyne Larson Jordan ;
Patrick Lira '52 ; Phyllis Durham '52 ; Punky Stevens '52 ; Tom Hodge '52 ;
Wayne Mahood ; Carroll Knight ; David & Nancy Kors ; Ted Truske '52 ;
Alice Mahler Ashley ; Marge Schwarz '52 ; Malcolm Ing, M.D. ; Hugh Wang
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:29
PM
Subject: Of the "ripples" found at "The
York '52 Weight Room"
Thank you for this Mike--- and such an
interesting world we live in. Hugh
Wang speaks to me of "ripples"--- like when you try skipping
a stone across the water. You just never know what shores these
"ripples" will
touch. In this case, Hugh Wang's "ripples" touched both of us "Downey boys" --- first you, Mike, while you
were in the US Navy and then much later, me, your cousin Bruce---
both being Great, Great Grandsons of
John and Emily Ellen Clarke
Whitehead of
"Raisins and Almonds---A Civil War Story" fame.
Could these
"ripples" possibly be
more than just a coincidence?
Hope you are feeling much better, Mike, after
your recent hospitalization.
...Bruce***********
----- Original Message -----
From:
Mike
To: H. Bruce Downey
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:09
AM
Subject: Re: Answers to your nutritional
questions are always found at "The York '52 Weight Room" --- Just try me
Bruce,
I couldn't for the life of me get
this guys name off my mind, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. While I
was stationed at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. the Good Dr. Hugh Wang, was
involved with a special project at The Naval Supply Center's, Research
Division, where I was assigned to three years of much needed shore duty, after
four years of 9 month long tours of Duty on Gun Ships to the Gun Line, in
the Tonkin Gulf, North Vietnam.
I was not involved with him other
than to pick up, he and other's assigned to him, and deliver
them with my Boat him to Ford Island Naval Air Station. It
was later declassified as to what was being studied, and that was the effects
on our Navy Seal Team Divers and their Diets, for being submerged longer than
normal human limits and underwater times.
Just a little Tid Bit.
Mike
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