Subj : Re: Health Update To : Daryl Stout From : Don Lowery Date : Sun Jun 28 2020 08:58:48 DS> DL> Having been alone for decades...this never bothered me. What surprise DS> What was strange is that before I got married, I was happy being DS> single. Then, when I got married over 17 years ago, I was happy. But, DS> after being a widower over 13 years, while I'm busier than I was when I DS> was married, some days, it does get awfully lonely. At this stage of DS> life, so many folks have "too much baggage and drama" to deal with...and DS> I don't want, or need that. In my case...back in the 80's...it was endless marriage this...marriage that. Just bothering with that was enough to drive anyone crazy. Know fully well about the loneliness. Am by myself & have no one to talk to...except for on here. Add on all the garbage from someone else...that Mystic Rat was right...don't marry or sleep with anyone else with more problems than you have. DS> all my friends work, and have families, it's difficult to get a ride DS> to and from the facility, but impossible to get someone to stay with DS> me overnight at the house. Both parents are dead and gone now. Yep! It's almost to the point that you better hope you have a taxi there & back. In terms of parents...been estranged from those Klan scumbags others call family for 30 years & am better for it. Don't even know who's still alive or dead or care. They are not part of my life or even want them to be part of any type of my life. DS> One woman told me that she would rather have quintuplets (5 at once), DS> in hard labor, with no anesthesia or epidural...than 1 kidney stone. DS> That pretty much sums it up. DS> Another woman told me "If we women can pass a kid, you men can pass DS> a kidney stone". I told her "But, unlike the female cervix, the male DS> penis can NOT dialate". 1st time with stones was the only time I've been given morphine. Even 30 years later...never had another shot...since it's the greatest stuff in the world & I would abuse it like crazy. DS> When talking to her Mom nowadays, and I make a real bad pun, etc., DS> I'm told "Go to your room!!" . At least 1 good thing...we have our toys there & can't get them taken away. Even have a half bag of fake corn chips beside me on the desk...so I have food. ;D ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Windows/32) * Origin: ACME BBS-W.Coyote & D.Brown are our best users. (1:340/1000) .