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To: greenspirit who wrote (6381)	1/19/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Michael, So, tell us. I'm dying of curiousity. Is your surgeon a man or a woman and is your surgeon a neurosurgeon or an orthopedic surgeon. Inquiring minds want to know. Holly p.s. The above is gramatically correct and sans gender/sex-specific pronouns.

To: greenspirit who wrote (6381)	1/19/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Michael, (a penni parenting persiflage post) That's very nice of you! I'm taking a breather from trying to keep up with Feelings-- There must have been a thousand posts today... like the good ol' days-but I need my fix of home here where I can break out the Dom Perignon and the Puccini, fantasize with Thomas, tell silly stories with Alexa and Janice, throw words at Paul and Alex and duck when they reciprocate, and talk about family and life. It's exhausting trying to stay OUT of debates and away from confrontation. And I just have too much need to be frivolous, I fear, to think about abortion and cancer and child abuse without some downtime. But I'm so glad that everyone is roaming back and forth again. It feels WONDERFUL. I've been meaning to write to Alex about this, and also mention it to you because your children are still very young. You know how important I believe reading to them is- that we did it nightly and long into the school years, far beyond when they were able to read for themselves. We only stopped reading aloud together when CW entered high school. I've noticed something interesting happening this year. The boys are leaving books for us on our bedside tables and these books often express conflicts and issues and feelings and dreams that we think they might be experiencing but are uncomfortable expressing directly to us. They know, though, that we all speak the language of "books", symbols and metaphors--or maybe they aren't even aware of doing it. We find we're being given insights into what's important to them now, and with teens, any information is helpful! I guess I have no idea if there is a connection between our early reading and what we're seeing, but it seems possible. Read, read, read. And talk about what you read. And maybe, as some of the lines of communication break down as seems inevitable with adolescence, this slender link will still allow you to reach out to each other. Do I sound like an AT&T commercial?

To: greenspirit who wrote (6381)	1/19/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 71178

Michael, Your assessment of the variables involved in your question is probably correct. I think you'll get the answers you want on Wednesday. If you don't you should see someone else. But I'll keep it in mind and try to help. Jack

To: greenspirit who wrote (6381)	1/20/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Mike, welcome back! Seven inch scar is good. When it comes to scars, big is good. Well, up to say 14 inches, or 10 anyway. A three inch scar is not really good and two inches isn't a scar. My dear old Dad, who is seventy eight now, and still Bull Of The Woods, just had his first surgery. He was nervous. We're standing there over him with the nurse in the recovery room and he's all smiles. First time I've ever seen my Dad...well, stoned; he was cute, really. And he tells the nurse, "I'm not a virgin any more. I lost my vir-gin-in-ty." "Oh." "Yah. Been operated on. Been in surgeried." Wild guess, unrelated to my Dad ~ Are you anxious about how the nerve is recovering? (Well, I guess that would be answered "of course".) Good to hear about the state of the military hospitals. Been in a few hospitals recently myself, public ones, and was impressed. But was in a V.A. one in about 1974 and it scared the dickens out of me. (Might have been just too impressionable. And hey, somebody was screaming, loud and continuously, in the next room.) And BTW, from "Paul's Limited and Mixed-Up History Files", some people say the greatest reformer of military field hospitals was Florence Nightingale. In the 1700's somewhere. Maybe it was the Crimean War, if it happened in that century. She convinced the British their hospitals were killing more combat troops than the enemy, and was far ahead of her time in the presentation of her arguments, using brilliantly organized and colored statistical graphs to quantify the causes of death as a function of time and conditions. They're very impressive, still. She lobbied exhaustively on the troops behalf. She would have been most definitely "wired". She was really quite a heroine. Addict. Or maybe that was someone else. Sounds to me like you're in good hands. But "questions" about how things heal have always been good for me. But also, some stuff doesn't get better right away; it sort of has to grow. This is free advice. But I really should charge for that quality of history discourse.