But I see no point in me defending my opinion or you defending yours any further.
For once, I have a use for this emoticon.
Sensei Grows Old, Part 2: The Colonoscopy!
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Baylor
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Once again, we were only stating our opinions. Many people interpret what each section means and what is appropriate differently. Nothing was discussed about locking this topic, moving it to the speakeasy, or deleting it. We only said that we found it inappropriate. I can think of a hundred different ways to discuss a health condition other than this, but this is how you chose to do it. Therefore, it was your opinion that it's appropriate to discuss it in this manner. We have nothing in the rules that prohibits this, so I can't say one way or another that this is wrong. I can only state my opinion. I can't speak for Gonzai, but I am sorry that my opinion was offensive.
But I see no point in me defending my opinion or you defending yours any further.
For once, I have a use for this emoticon.
But I see no point in me defending my opinion or you defending yours any further.
For once, I have a use for this emoticon.
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Baakay
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Oh man, Sensei...
Step away for a couple of days and miss the results. I'm perfectly delighted that things are basically ok, but...
NO PECAN PIE???!!!
This is... unconscionable!! There is no life without PIE!
And the sudden awakening in another room is hilarious. That's EXACTLY what Nate was like last year under the same circumstances. That stuff just totally wipes your short term memory!
On a more serious note, I lost both my beloved grandfather and my mother to colon cancer, and my grandmother had the same condition you have, Sensei. I probably do as well; just haven't gotten the official diagnosis. I'm not a moderator, nor to I play one on TV. But I for one am happy both to read and to see the outcome. Anyone who didn't like the idea shouldn't have even opened the thread, in my humble opinion ... it's not like you didn't warn us several times in advance
*HUGS!!*
Step away for a couple of days and miss the results. I'm perfectly delighted that things are basically ok, but...
NO PECAN PIE???!!!
This is... unconscionable!! There is no life without PIE!
And the sudden awakening in another room is hilarious. That's EXACTLY what Nate was like last year under the same circumstances. That stuff just totally wipes your short term memory!
On a more serious note, I lost both my beloved grandfather and my mother to colon cancer, and my grandmother had the same condition you have, Sensei. I probably do as well; just haven't gotten the official diagnosis. I'm not a moderator, nor to I play one on TV. But I for one am happy both to read and to see the outcome. Anyone who didn't like the idea shouldn't have even opened the thread, in my humble opinion ... it's not like you didn't warn us several times in advance
*HUGS!!*
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
James A. Michener, The Drifters
James A. Michener, The Drifters
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blueheaven
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You should make Christmas cards out of those pics. The title could be "O Hole-y Night" or "Merry Shitsmas." How about "Seasons Reamings?" Nope, haven't had the full scope yet. Just the finger, and that was bad enough. Did you taste metal at any point during the procedure?
Time is but an illusion. Lunch time...doubly so.
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sensei
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Thanks, Snakeskii, Baakay, kymaera, blueheaven for good thoughts.
I'm feeling a little more sanguine, having done some web-swinging around medical sites and found that the consensus is that, since no one really knows what makes diverticulosis go -itis, dietary restrictions aren't really called for, except for upping the fiber content of my diet (and stocking up on Gas-X) Some MDs evidently went overboard, telling patients that they couldn't eat raw tomatoes (it's the seeds, see) or even cucumbers or zucchini (ditto). Some patients showed up at the Sloan-Kettering hospital severely restricted in diet because of what the chief of the wellness program there termed "medical folklore."
So it looks like corn on the cob and pecan pie are back, though, to be safe, I need to chew those kernals and nuts into mush instead of inhaling them like I used to. Probably the Big Mac with the sesame seed bun is still out, though, more because of the 1010 milligrams of sodiym (or 1.010 gram, to be exact) than for the pesty killer seeds. (Still better than the Asian Salad with Crispy Chicken, which has 1030 mg. of sodium; add the Newman's Own Sesame Ginger Lowfat Salad Dressing and you add 680 mg to that and get 2/3 of the maximum recommended daily intake of sodium from all sources right there!)
For the Mod issue, I'll just add that I'm sorry if some people felt I was too personal for a "People Pages" posting. It does seem odd to find moderators creating a public controversy like this, when one didn't seem to exist before. I'd thought, vaguely, that the job of moderators was ... well ... to moderate discussions, defusing tensions and making as many people feel welcome as possible.
When it's necessary to rein in a perennially troublesome member like myself, there are many discreet ways to do this, including PMs and emails. It seems a public correction, especially when no one else had objected publicly or privately, is an unnecessarily "immoderate" way of dealing with such matters. But as I'm boring Baylor, I'll zip it and go on to more productive threads.
Anyhow the matter is moot, as I'm not slated for another test of this sort for five years, and since, given the transient nature of virtual communities, by then I'll certainly be posting somewhere else. Meantime stay tuned for what promises to be a thoroughly uncontroversial "Sensei Grows Old III: The Sleep Test."
(Though in fact this promises to point to some juicy results, as my wife tells me I regularly hold my breath for long periods in my sleep.)
I'm feeling a little more sanguine, having done some web-swinging around medical sites and found that the consensus is that, since no one really knows what makes diverticulosis go -itis, dietary restrictions aren't really called for, except for upping the fiber content of my diet (and stocking up on Gas-X) Some MDs evidently went overboard, telling patients that they couldn't eat raw tomatoes (it's the seeds, see) or even cucumbers or zucchini (ditto). Some patients showed up at the Sloan-Kettering hospital severely restricted in diet because of what the chief of the wellness program there termed "medical folklore."
So it looks like corn on the cob and pecan pie are back, though, to be safe, I need to chew those kernals and nuts into mush instead of inhaling them like I used to. Probably the Big Mac with the sesame seed bun is still out, though, more because of the 1010 milligrams of sodiym (or 1.010 gram, to be exact) than for the pesty killer seeds. (Still better than the Asian Salad with Crispy Chicken, which has 1030 mg. of sodium; add the Newman's Own Sesame Ginger Lowfat Salad Dressing and you add 680 mg to that and get 2/3 of the maximum recommended daily intake of sodium from all sources right there!)
For the Mod issue, I'll just add that I'm sorry if some people felt I was too personal for a "People Pages" posting. It does seem odd to find moderators creating a public controversy like this, when one didn't seem to exist before. I'd thought, vaguely, that the job of moderators was ... well ... to moderate discussions, defusing tensions and making as many people feel welcome as possible.
When it's necessary to rein in a perennially troublesome member like myself, there are many discreet ways to do this, including PMs and emails. It seems a public correction, especially when no one else had objected publicly or privately, is an unnecessarily "immoderate" way of dealing with such matters. But as I'm boring Baylor, I'll zip it and go on to more productive threads.
Anyhow the matter is moot, as I'm not slated for another test of this sort for five years, and since, given the transient nature of virtual communities, by then I'll certainly be posting somewhere else. Meantime stay tuned for what promises to be a thoroughly uncontroversial "Sensei Grows Old III: The Sleep Test."
(Though in fact this promises to point to some juicy results, as my wife tells me I regularly hold my breath for long periods in my sleep.)