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    Wow Russell, some ordeal! Hope you get mended soon - I'd avoid hammocks for a while...
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    Welcome back Russell.

    My, that's one hell of a lot of surgery you have been through. As others have said take it easy now and leave the sex in a hammock activity to Bev.
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    Thanks everyone for the well wishes. And I hate to sound old, but sex is the absolute last thing on my mind these days, I don’t even want to watch others having sex in a hammock! Well, maybe just for a moment, out of curiosity you understand. But only a moment! Then it’s back to my split pea soup!

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    No need to apologise Russell,

    There are some that like to talk about sex ('aural' sex?), whereas there are those who just get on with it, without fuss, discussion or comment.

    Are you unable to operate the preamp without the remote control, or is it a matter of convenience, saving you having to get up and down?
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    Hi Russell, welcome back, I hope you have a speedy and full recovery. That sounds like quite a procedure.

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    That sounds very severe, and here I was feeling sorry for myself after heart failure last August, followed by a prostate cancer diagnosis, diabetes, and kidney problems, all revealed in one consultation.

    Got rid of the diabetes, heart stopped and re-started and arythymia sorted, on estrogens and developing tits, and back to bodybuilding. Tough getting old eh?

    But I think I brought all of my troubles on myself with depression.
    I remember thinking in April last year, and I largely share Marco's values, 'there is nothing for me here' - the world can be cruel to a pleasant, decent, but unconformist and heretical person.

    Fortunately my fitness and work have restored my enlarged heart to relatively normal, as is also its ejection factor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    That sounds very severe, and here I was feeling sorry for myself after heart failure last August, followed by a prostate cancer diagnosis, diabetes, and kidney problems, all revealed in one consultation.

    Got rid of the diabetes, heart stopped and re-started and arythymia sorted, on estrogens and developing tits, and back to bodybuilding. Tough getting old eh?

    But I think I brought all of my troubles on myself with depression.
    I remember thinking in April last year, and I largely share Marco's values, 'there is nothing for me here' - the world can be cruel to a pleasant, decent, but unconformist and heretical person.

    Fortunately my fitness and work have restored my enlarged heart to relatively normal, as is also its ejection factor.
    How did you 'get rid of the diabetes' Dennis? Was it through a change in diet?

    I can at times suffer from mild depression or melancholia, but I have never contemplated suicide and never will. You just leave a mess for others to sort out, which is just selfish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alphaGT View Post
    It’s nice to be back! In my conspicuous absence I’ve been recovering from surgery! It was far more serious than I was lead to believe before hand. I went in for some hernia repair, and came out with some 148 staples in my belly. Top to bottom, side to side, from my rib cage to as far south as possible!

    It seems that I had put the repair off so long, that my stomach muscles had atrophied away. So! Now I have mesh holding my entire guts in, and the mesh is strapped to my back muscles! The strangest thing, once I got home, it seemed that I was taller? All my tables seemed shorter, etc. then the other day I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, and in my reflection it was cutting the top of my head off! Damnit! I actually am taller?? How the hell? It seems that by strapping this mesh to my back muscles has pulled my spine into alignment? Or so the doctor speculates.

    As I lie in the hospital, many doctors came by to see me, at least 15 of them said they were in the operating room during surgery! It must have been standing room only! One doctor said they juggled my guts over their heads before putting them back in. I’d have thought he was kidding, but then again it really does feel like it! I think he was serious.

    So I am just over 3 weeks since surgery, and I really question whether I needed this surgery or not? I could have gone the rest of my life wearing a truss, or I could have pushed my guts around in a small wheelbarrow? One thing is certain, it’s the last time. No matter what may come loose in the future, it will stay that way, this has been more than overwhelming, and do you know they have prescribed me nothing for pain! Due to the fake Opioid Epidemic that the government in the US is on about, I received no pain medication over what I was taking before I went in. Is that insane? Did I miss something? So I declare, never again! What’s done is done, but in hind sight I wonder if this will ever be worth it? At this point I still have swelling, and am enjoying a soft GI diet.

    And the worst part of all my be, the remote control for my preamp stopped working two days before surgery. So I’ve been watching the boob tube instead of enjoying my stereo, hopefully this week I’ll be able to get up and down and flip records again! It’s good to see that the conversation has remained in the gutter in my absence. The trick to sex in a hammock I believe are rough seas! You need a little motion of the ocean to help things along.

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    Re. the hammock hanky panky - I think the problem would be largely one of access, what with the "curtains" being pretty much drawn. Unless the receptacle is of Wizard's sleeve proportions
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    Steve, you have a PM. Please reply. ASAP - ta!

    Russell, really sorry to hear of your recent ordeal and hope you're now in an altogether better place, my friend

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Welcome back Russell, glad you are on the mend. One question - what does a soft GI diet comprise and how does it differ to what they feed to Marines?

    Re. the hammock hanky panky - I think the problem would be largely one of access, what with the "curtains" being pretty much drawn. Unless the receptacle is of Wizard's sleeve proportions
    GI in Gastrointestinal i think; usually low fibre
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