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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...

How 'bout a square wheel or flat tire for the same thing.

A balloon with a goofy face for an airhead.

How 'bout one with a slanting, waxed hairline and a dark "toothbrush" mustache? Or one with a white pointed hood? Or just a skull-and-crossbones for poison.

And if you remove any brand names from them, you can say you made them yourself. If that feels too dishonest, you can say you like them so much that you might make some more when you get time, and let them make their own assumptions that you sew.

You back for the hug. :hug:The world doesn't recall when Texas had intelligent leaders, but we actually did. I knew Ann Richards, and she left a brilliant legacy. Remember her "Poor George speech" at the convention? I also met Johnson, who signed more civil rights legislation than any other...

I'm looking at the math. The eight-year combination of the Bush/Cheney's destruction required an eight-year stretch of Obama's attempts to fix the damage while being hamstrung by Congress. Another a GOP president elected now for four years would complete 20 years GOP abuses of the middle and...

But writing in anybody but the Democratic nominee is too dangerous. We simply have no choice, given the hazard of having another Republican **shole. This election may mean all or nothing ever for the middle class. Our personal disgust with the whole year must not override the emergency...

Elizabeth Warren would be a great choice, but how vulnerable is her Senate seat to a Republican? We definitely need her in a place to do some good. Same with Bernie. The VP has so little power most of the time, though Joe Biden has been as good as they get.

@Medic72, I think the fact that he left you no note may be further evidence of two things. One is that he was truly not himself on his last day, and there is no way you could have influenced that. Two is that he loved you so much that he couldn't bring himself to say "goodbye".

@Medic72, there is no hurry at all for disposing of things or "letting them go". Especially regarding the ashes. You might consider what I did. Since my wife died in summer, I kept her ashes at home for several months. I wanted to put them in the park where we were married on the summer...