Recent content by stillstanding2

Another thought related to my note above, and to Anthony’s reference to evolution is that autonomic responses such as muscle contractions, whether painful or pleasant, require tension. When your nurse catheterized you, she invaded an area packed with pleasure nerves, through you were probably...

I believe it can be a purely unwanted physiological reaction. I took care of my wife until her death from cancer. For more than a year of chemo, radiation, inability to walk, constant readjustments of medications, stress and depression, she had no interest in sex. When hospitalized for the final...

I remember my first night after checking myself into the hospital. I felt desperately alone, ashamed, trapped and under suicide watch by my own choice. But what got me through it was knowing that I had finally done something right for my loving wife and toddler daughter. I knew my wife knew I...

If he has been without real therapy and yet suicidal, it is about time he decided to get good medical help. He may need a lot of catching up as well as proper meds, but he has taken a very crucial step in facing his problem(s). I hope he has good insurance and can let the docs do all they...

Sorry, didn't mean to rip anybody off.

OK. Didn't mean for anyone to take my joke seriously and put themselves at risk. But damn, let's keep this thread light. We need it amid all the other fear. :wideeyed: THESE ARE JUST JOKES, FOLKS!!! :laugh:

It is a sad commentary that a thread like this, which I think is terrific for good humor amid all the other serious issues in other threads, has to bog down in "correctness." This election year and all its babble is as insane as any one of us! And this was a cheerful, neutral corner to come...

Sorry, I thought we were all joking! How'd racism get into this? Don't we have enough of that shit on FB?

And when someone tries to ensnare you in boring gossip, show them a scribbled note saying "I'm wearing a wire, and I can't turn it off."

Brilliant! Entrap their vanity so they don't care what you say! Even after you escape, they'll think that seeing you was enthralling.

And some more: :hug::hug::hug::hug:

Fadeaway, I clicked that I like this, but that just means I've read it. No one deserves to feel that ache. I haven't read this whole thread, but you sound so much like my daughter, whose marriage is so sad. She doesn't tell me much, knowing that I can be very outraged about her pain. But...

Fabulous that you did your lawn by yourself. Be proud of being proud. I like your "little" technique too. It's an interesting mental trick that works. I think I've done something similar as an "ice breaker" with myself. Maybe I'll describe it sometime, but it has helped bridge some...

ERROR ALERT PLEASE DISREGARD MY LAST POST. I had meant it as a comment on something Gizmo said, so it was not relevant to the thread. I tried to delete the whole thing, but somehow the last fragment escaped the delete. Sorry for any confusion.

can support others in grief who have yet to pass through the stages that I have, and I sense that is a passion for you also. I've watched this entire thread, and it seems to me you deserve huge respect for what you have been through, and now you are offering your wisdom to Medic through loving...