Hi, Ardith...

 AH@>           I know other folks in the 50+ crowd who have had part of the
 AH@> prostate removed.  If that's what your urologist recommends I'm sure at
 AH@> least one of the guys here would be willing to discuss the pros & cons
 AH@> with you.  :-)

  I'd be glad to know that information. When I asked about a prostate biopsy,
he said "you don't need one". So, that's one positive, I guess. I go back in
for the KUB (kidney/ureter/bladder) X-ray, and PSA (prostate specific antigen)
test in September. I'll be 53 this year, and I joke that "I'm too old to cut
the mustard, but I can still stir the mayonnaise. So, please pass the BLT,
onion ring, and Doctor Pepper, and no one gets hurt". 

 AH@>           Ah.  Conserving heat, I suppose... as do the blood vessels &
 AH@> at least one part of the anatomy which is unique to males!  I hadn't
 AH@> heard the situation explained that way until now.  I was under the
 AH@> impression it was more common in females because I've had the same
 AH@> problem since I was pregnant with Nora.  :-))

  In females, that's because the fetus is pressing on the urinary bladder,
if I remember my biology right.

  Another cute one is that a fellow ham radio operator was holding his ten
month old son in his left arm, while he was running a communications net.
His son must've understood the expression "it's better to be pissed off 
than pissed on"...as he decided to show his displeasure with Daddy by
urinating on his arm.  Daddy had to have Momma take the little one. :)

 AH@>           Uh-huh.  One can't be sure nowadays that Dick & Jane & their
 AH@> 2.3 kids all have the same surname.  I made a similar mistake years ago
 AH@> when I addressed the mother of one of my students as "Mrs. X".  She
 AH@> responded huffily that *she* was "Miss Y".  I'm guessing she ditched
 AH@> "Mr. X's" surname when she ditched him, and wasn't concerned about what
 AH@> others might think of her marital status at the time the child was
 AH@> conceived.  Some years before this incident, an older friend of ours
 AH@> called herself "Mrs. Z" & wore a wedding ring in dealing with her son's
 AH@> school although to this day she has never married.  How times have
 AH@> changed!  If Janice preferred to keep her maiden name I don't blame
 AH@> her.  As a teacher I had to redo almost every form I'd filled in since
 AH@> junior high school, together with an explanation for the change on each
 AH@> one, when I married Dallas.  If I'd known beforehand about the
 AH@> paperwork, I might have kept my maiden name... [wry grin].

  She actually took my surname as hers when we married. When she called her
parents afterwards, and told them what had happend, she quipped "I'll bet
you didn't know you had a son that looked like him!!"  And, that's true
about the confusion of whose kids belong to whom!!

 AH@>           I take it you live in the US, where many carbonated beverages
 AH@> seem to have caffeine added.  In this country Sprite, 7-Up, Mountain
 AH@> Dew, etc. do *not* include caffeine.  And Fresca, brought to us by the
 AH@> same company which supplies Coca-Cola, contains neither sugar nor
 AH@> caffeine... it does contain aspartame.  I can't help thinking at times
 AH@> that it must be one of Canada's best-kept secrets, however, judging by
 AH@> the reaction I get when I take it to the cash desk....  :-)

  Yep, I'm in Arkansas, although I'm a native Floridian. The only "caffeine"
I get now, is if I take a couple of Walgreen's Migraine Headache tablets a
day. I haven't eaten a candy bar in almost 3 years...you don't know how hard
it is to walk by a candy aisle, with all the confections calling my name for
me to take them home with me. 

Daryl

... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
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