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Post by bluepride on Nov 11, 2013 19:20:57 GMT -5
Maybe it's time we had our own area to bitch and moan and talk about being sick, injured and things like that! Here it is!I'm still feeling not great but a little better than yesterday. But this will take a day or two more before I'm back to my usual self!
This is our official Blue Pride Infirmary Logo!
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Post by hcsodale on Nov 11, 2013 20:12:58 GMT -5
Why Tommy, I've never seen you in horn rimmed glasses and a babushka!
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Post by bluepride on Nov 14, 2013 17:12:40 GMT -5
Just checking in to let everyone know that I still feel like sh*t. It's a head cold which is driving me nutz. The weather isn't helping either. Had to resort to using Ny-Quil a couple of times even though I hate that stuff. But....as long as things stay above the neck I guess I have to be thankful. Also, I've been sneezing a lot! I don't want this cold to spread to my lungs and give me bronchitis. I hope to be ship shape in a day or two....(or three )
ME!
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Post by hcsodale on Nov 14, 2013 21:08:04 GMT -5
In my family, a hot toddy cured many ailments....just saying...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 10:41:44 GMT -5
In my family, they poured about a cup, filled with 150 over proof Jamaican Rum, directly on to your bare chest. They would rub it in and the fumes would clear your nose and break up the cold in your chest. It worked every time.
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Post by TheBear on Nov 16, 2013 13:15:49 GMT -5
Okay... everyone take a deep breath. In my "unique" way, this is a topic for the BluePride infirmary. You're gonna love this...
BTW, I rather LIKE Carroll's remedy. However, this is a different issue. Oh... and, Tommy, considering this thread might clear up your head cold right away!...
Recently, for days and days, there has been a running thread on my ManKind Project website about the controversy of "To Circumcise or Not to Circumcise." I can appreciate that some participants on the forum are writing from places of great fervor, be they religious, hormonal or whatever. One writer suggested that there is a "scream" trauma from infants from which one never recovers. Another cites "evidence" that pressure points on the forearm demonstrate permanent mental disturbance. Finally, as regular BluePride readers know I am wont to do, I sent MY interpretation...Men,
I have been following along with this rather extensive thread and would like to add a thought and another perspective to the stew...
As a senior starting my eighth decade, a retired psychiatric nurse, a thanatologist, and a gay man, I have a different life-stage relationship with my penis. ...or, anyone else's penis (in a medical / psycho-social sense, NOT an inter-personal sense, which is quite a different topic.)
First, I would remind the group that, the considerable and frequent hormone-induced penis response is elicited from a totally different organ... the BRAIN. And, many aspects of physical pleasure and/OR emotional trauma also come from the BRAIN. What feels good "down there" (as it was referred to in my era,) is actually interpreted by neural messages sent to the BRAIN. Bottom line... the real sex organ is... (let's hear it...) the BRAIN.
Also, while the discussion of tactibility and neural messages from the forearm was interesting, I posit that, for most men, the feel and technique of the HAND has more relevance. Plus, even the HAND performs a more pro-active rather than response function in relation to the penis. The forearm simply plays a minor role in being a fulcrum for longer stroke... or even artistic expression for snow-writing.
But I digress...
I submit the To Circumcise or NOT to Circumcise discussion for today has other considerations. Being a psych nurse, cleanliness and disease transmission come to mind. While I find some of the "statistics" presented in this thread are a bit of a stretch, I submit that we put down the Wikipedia explanations and refer instead to Google Scholar ( www.scholar.google.com ). Having just finished my dissertation for my third masters degree, this one in Public Health, I respectfully ASSURE the men in this forum that they will find a far higher level of peer-reviewed factual evidence on Google Scholar. Upon doing research on disease transmission (either way... receiving or spreading) the foreskin does make a statistical difference. However, before anyone gets all huhu, there is a caveat...
Returning to cleanliness, that aspect has more to do with proper parenting and education of how to clean one's body. A dirty body will both transmit AND receive "the nasties" more readily than a clean body, regardless of foreskin presence. Getting or spreading the clap has nothing to do with primal scream.
And, in my professional experience working at Pelican Bay State Prison (with the "worst of the worst" criminals in the state) I have yet to determine that infant circumcision connects to any sort of primal scream of neo-natal traumatic origin being manifested in later life. Respectfully, BIRTH is farrrrr more elicitous of primal annoyance than the not-yet-developed neural pathways from the foreskin to the BRAIN. Cutting off the penis - YES. Trimming the neo-natal penile fingernail... nah. Yes, to an adult who has quite a well-established freeway of pain/pleasure and testosterone-facilitated psychic connection to his penis, circumcision is a BIG DEAL. In my view, even circumcision as a teenager would be legitimate only for medical need (i.e. if the foreskin constricts the glans or causes other medical issues.) BUT, to a neo-nate, not so much.
Just my perspective (along with chronological, experiential and psychiatric/medical training.)
Respectfully, Bear (Standing Bear) ____________________________.
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Post by bluepride on Nov 18, 2013 14:27:06 GMT -5
Wow! Just, WOW! All I'll say as to Bear's posting about that subject is...... that "Scream Trauma" stuff sounds like a lot of hippy-dippy bullcrap to me. Why do some "thinkers" always have to find the most ridiculous things to advocate for? Things are what they are. They probably cry when a tree is chopped down too. Gimme a break!
Anyway......the couple of hot toddies I tried over the last few days didn't do anything for me except give me a nice couple of buzzes! And I would never waste good old Jamaican Rum by splashing it over my chest....unless it was going to be licked off by some....uh.....well....uh....you know where I'm going with this.... .
But I think I've turned a corner after trying some remedies that only made things worse. I got all dried out because of some of the stuff I was taking. Then I got the brainstorm of making some good old fashion Jewish Penicillin.... Homemade Chicken Soup! I swear it helped. I'm still not 100% yet but I'm getting there. My problem was those cold pills that dried me out and made things worse. And.... trying to pretend I was better when I wasn't! I went out shopping yesterday in the rain, drove about 25 miles to some stores I wanted to hit. By the time I got home I thought I was gonna pass out. Definitely not a cool move on my part. I'll never learn.
I'm pretty sure all of this was a result of my exchanging 2 cable boxes the week before last. Every time I go to my cable company's customer service place I get sick. Standing around with 20-30 dirt bags in a place that has no air. On each trip I risk TB, flu, hoof and mouth disease, athlete's foot and diphtheria. I f*cking hate that place. So today I'm laying low and eating my chicken soup.
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Post by TheBear on Nov 18, 2013 16:29:43 GMT -5
Tommy, dear man...
GLAD you are on the road to recovery. And, from a documented medical standpoint, I AGREE that Jewish Penicillin IS INDEED a WONDER CURE. Reading through your post with the spreading on the chest and having it licked off technique (which also has some medical validity,) I thought that was your finding. Alas, your last line put the kibosh on that visual fantasy. Oh well... back to just DRINKing the rum.
OH... and, YEAH, don't linger in small waiting rooms/lobbies. They are DISEASE PITS.
Furball _____________________.
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Post by bluepride on Nov 25, 2013 16:45:05 GMT -5
Well, the cold has cleared up about 99.9999% as of now! But I think I burned the candle at both ends on Saturday night. Today I feel a bit woozy but I'm staying on top of it. I have to because tomorrow morning I'm on the road early to spend the rest of the Thanksgiving week with family. I'll have my Kindle with me so I'll be able to come online here and there. My laptop has been sitting around for months waiting for me to get it repaired.
My Kindle is great though! I have an app that monitors police, fire and EMS in the US, Canada and all around the world. I believe I was monitoring Greg's department last week. A jumper off of a bridge where the guys were trying to figure out the best area to recover the body. Queen Bridge? Sound familiar, Greg? The next night there was a big fire. Sometimes I listen to some PD's in Australia. The dispatchers are so pleasant. They must take happy pills. In NY, the dispatchers have so much attitude. "Stand by, unit......" While they're probably doing their nails!
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Post by bluepride on Jan 11, 2014 16:57:32 GMT -5
Well, with all the cold, snow, running around since before Christmas, as well as a lot of family stuff, I ended up with the same cold that I had in November. Also, others in my family are feeling similar to me. The homemade chicken soup helps. I gave my last batch to my sister so early this morning, I dragged on some clothes and pushed my tired, unshaven, baggy-eyed self to the store and got the makings of another fresh pot of Jewish Penicillin. I had to disguise myself because I couldn't let "my public" see me not at my best. So, while the rain is beating against my windows and once again I'm keeping a low profile, I figured I'd catch up a bit here. Someone had tried to join the site twice (using 2 similar but different user names). In my vetting process I couldn't really come up with any connection to him being "one of us", ie: LEO. And the fact that it looked like he had an E-bay account which was suspended by E-bay just the other day.....well....that spoke volumes to me. So...."REJECT" If he is/was for real and he sees this, he can re-apply as long as there is something verifiable for me to check. I've been kinda good at keeping spammers and most phonies out.
Meanwhile, it's time to take another Advil. My head is pounding!
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Post by TheBear on Jan 12, 2014 8:02:32 GMT -5
Tommy, dear man, please do stop by the BluePride Break Room. I have baked up a batch of Jewish Penicillin cookies for you to help you finally get RID of that cold.
It will not be until July that my new house is built but there will be a new remedy so that you don't get any more colds... Come visit me in Florida (where it is warm all year) and try out the sling, uh, SWING in my sitting room off the master bedroom.
(credit to Dale for that marvelous suggestion!)
Nurse Bear ________________________.
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Post by admin on Feb 8, 2014 16:33:59 GMT -5
I really don't know how to make this announcement. But I have to and I'll just say it. About an hour or so ago I received a phone call from Frank (BURNER). He let me know that he is in the hospital and he told me his doctor told him he has acute leukemia. It appears to be in the very earliest of stages and Frank was upbeat and joking. If he hadn't told me, I would not have guessed that there was anything wrong. He'll be undergoing tests for the next few days and then he'll have a better handle on exactly what is going on with him. He told me he expects to be in the hospital for approximately 25 days. He will apparently be receiving chemotherapy in addition to whatever else the doctors think appropriate.
As of now, he is not looking for phone calls, cards or anything like that. He just wants to get this taken care of and to get back home to his other half, Steve. And I guess I speak for all of us in saying that that is what we want too. I have his phone number in his room and also his cell phone (you know....the one with the rotary dial...) number so I'll be calling him regularly as well as visiting him. He doesn't have a laptop with him but I will be going with a friend, to drive Steve to their other home in upstate New York at some point soon to do some chores, so we'll pick up his laptop and deliver it to him so he can get back to posting and complaining.
He was joking so much about this when he called me and we were laughing, gossiping and bitching as we usually do. I got him to admit that he was wearing one of those hospital gowns with the open back to expose his cottage cheese flat ass to the elements. I'm hoping to get a photo of that so we can all share a laugh. But after we hung up it started to really hit me. Now I'm upset and my head is pounding. And I'll admit, I need a drink. This is not about me though.
Frank is going to get through this with flying colors as he always does. I'd ask for now for our members to leave any well wishes and thoughts here in this posting so he can see them when he's able to get back on line. He knows that I'm announcing this situation and he's fine with it. We can't keep it from you because it wouldn't be right. But he wants everyone to know that he feels fine and he will be fine. I'll be keeping everyone up to date, I promise.
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Post by TheBear on Feb 8, 2014 19:16:23 GMT -5
THANK YOU for letting us know about Frank, Tommy. Yes, "early stage" sounds very encouraging as they DO now have an excellent track record for treatment. Please keep us up to date and look after Steve. Oh... and drop by the BluePride break room. We'll have a special box of smiley face cookies for you to take to Burner.
All the BluePride Men and Women
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Post by cuffnstuff on Feb 9, 2014 2:48:49 GMT -5
Thank you for the information. Best wishes for burner.
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Post by edmontongreg on Feb 9, 2014 9:34:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the update on Burner. Hope he kicks this.
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