Hi, James!  This is a belated continuation of a previous reply to you:

JB>  Oh, *so* glad to find the time to garner your thoughts
JB>  again!   rocker" for laughing so hard!>


          Aww, shucks!  You make me laugh too.  I enjoy that... [grin].



AH>  As for the neighbours... I guess you could say "You
AH>  had to be there."  But I doubt you're overly concerned
AH>  about what they think.  :-)

JB>  Oh, if they had no grounds for their suspicion before
JB>  this week, they were blind to the notion.  Despite
JB>  my best efforts, my worst psych evaluation remains
JB>  "Perhaps mildly paranoid."


          My psych evaluation, which I sought years ago when my future
parents- in-law thought I was crazy because my point of view didn't
coincide with theirs
... was that I was sane & I understood myself quite well.  I guess I
understood myself better than they did.  We may both seem a bit neurotic at
times.  So who doesn't?  "Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."  I
can relate to that....  :-))



JB>  And that was after I BEGGED for their full treatment and
JB>  before they sent me home to "convalesce". 


          A warm cup of tea & fuzzy slippers or a good view of the
mountains or a bit of time in the garden can go a long way....  :-)



JB>  For the record - and in the interim from my last post -
JB>  I *did* have to check my anger when discussing my medical
JB>  complications to a person who was expressing nothing but
JB>  compassion towards me. In my defence it took me MANY
JB>  requests for her to stop before I turned immature in
JB>  order to change the topic.


          Sounds to me like the social worker (probably an NF, IMHO) who
visits us from time to time.  While she has oodles of empathy she can't get
it through her head that the bus nearest where we live is not wheelchair
accessible... and in the end she admits she has nothing to offer which
would suit our needs.  :-(



JB>  So, even after twenty-years almost to the date, I *do*
JB>  have to realize how tender my fragility is, but take
JB>  heart others here. I'm learning that I have PLENTY left
JB>  to learn about the muck we are all in.


          And after a similar length of time dealing with related issues I
hear what you're saying!  Many years ago I was told an appealing but
apocryphal tale of how Alexander the Great wept because "there were no
more worlds to conquer". According to a biography Nora & I just
finished, he recognized somewhere around the area of modern-day Afghanistan
that he'd be out of his depth if he went any further east... and that while
one of his tutors (Aristotle) had assured him of the existence of other
worlds he didn't know how to get there.  WRT the sort of subject matter you
& I are interested in there is always more to be learned.  I think it's
great that we have such opportunities to keep our minds active.  :-)



JB>  I don't recall seeing the other name you mentioned, but
JB>  I missed reading a lot of the posts I downloaded.


          Nathan?  Based on what he's said here & in various other
echoes, I'm inclined to think his interest leans more toward adding echoes
to his BBS than toward devoting sustained attention to the content.  Over
to you, Nathan.  ;-)



JB>  and even the Godless Steve, (I have your new nickname,
JB>  Steve. I hope you have thick enough skin?) I suffer from
JB>  an iatrogenic fibroid neuroma. Once we settle back into
JB>  our chairs behind a warm cup of tea and fuzzy slippers, I
JB>  have no problems going through the details, but I trust we
JB>  can have mutual respect for our emotions if things become
JB>  "sensitive"?


          As others have done here.  Sounds good to me....  :-)




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