Oddly enough, my aunt quit smoking years ago, and my mother started. My aunt, the younger smoker, has FAR more medical problems that my mom, the older smoker though. (My mother has insulin dependent diabetes now, and my much heavier aunt doesn't.) I would love for them to be in a study. So alike in so many ways, and…

My mom is an identical twin. When we were kids, the only way we could tell them apart is to get them to speak. (One was a smoker, one wasn't. It was obvious which was.) My aunt and uncle came for a visit one summer and my father walked in on my aunt while she was taking a bath, and he started shaving. Aunt covered her…

By about 2:20, I was ready to puke.

President Bush told him the laydezz love that stuff!

Oh I felt that to my bones! You distilled that quite well.

You know how a lot of women have hair thinning peri-menopause/menopause/post-menopause? It's the same everywhere.

I'm here to tell you I was not prepared for any changes, so it was a bit disconcerting when they came to pass. That said, I will take my old dusty, cobweb laden, saggy vagina any day over aging men who sometimes have to hold their testicles when they are on the toilet, so their balls don't swim free in body waste soup.

I think rather than "instinct", he runs on "impulse" mode with a soupcon of "don't give a shit".

I am so sincerely lucky to have been raised agnostic/atheist (and I'm an old, when that didn't happen so much), and my spouse, siblings, children, all, have only been in churches for weddings/funerals.

Wow! Your kindness and empathy is inspiring! We need more of you. <3

It would be pretty tough for her to get insight now. She's got that great defense mechanism going; denial. I don't think there is any way she can process what really happened and maintain her ego. I do think it will eventually creep in though.

This is fascinating. You described your growth so well, I could feel it.

Oh man, I have a very recent anecdote about this, but not sure about how to share without TMI. Due to a couple of medical conditions, I have gotten chronic with this (Not the manual part but the constipation part). I wound up in an intermediate ICU for a week in October. It seems that if things don't move well (which…

I know I'm going to keep sending huge $$$ checks to you. You may cut off my internet, you diabolical monster.

I purposely went to an older thread to post to you, but you hurt your stalker to the BONE, dude, lol. (And you have some mighty impressive power here. He's still crying about the "gay Brit" who has clout: http://gawker.com/is-anyone-over… ) Happy New Year, Poots!

He was still alive and had no medical treatment (for that) years later. He would still come in medical with, what would be horrible wounds on the rest of our arms/wrists, but he had so much scar tissue, it was like his skin had become self-sealing. We would just clean him up. No need to suture. I figured he must have…

I used to have a patient in an isolation cell in prison who self-mutilated all the time. He was always puncturing a lung and his arms were nothing but scar tissue. He was to be fed nothing but "Nutri-loaf" (A blend of whatever was served during chow during the day, blended up and baked into loaves, so no utensils…

Boring AND cheesy, but I hate rom-coms.

@Kanji posted this above: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

Loafers.