Hi, Daryl!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH>  I think your doctors know *you* know enough to go to   
   AH>  the ER if you have blood in your urine or can't produce   
   AH>  anything after drinking 3 liters of Gatorade.  :-)   
      
   DS>  My late wife was diabetic, and she drank water like a   
   DS>  fish. In fact, at one doctors appointment, after she   
   DS>  left a urine sample, the nurses told her "you have   
   DS>  really good looking urine" (clear). With the diuretic   
   DS>  I'm taking, due to holding a bit of fluid in my legs,   
   DS>  and the drinking of almost a gallon of Gatorade a day,   
   DS>  mine is the same way. I'm to go see my urologist on   
   DS>  November 8, and I'll find out if I need prostate surgery.   
   DS>  At least it isn't cancer.   
      
      
             I know other folks in the 50+ crowd who have had part of the   
   prostate removed.  If that's what your urologist recommends I'm sure at least   
   one of the guys here would be willing to discuss the pros & cons with you.  :-)   
      
      
      
   DS>  But, this having to run to the restroom every few minutes is   
   DS>  annoying...especially in winter, when cold temperatures tend   
   DS>  to make the urinary bladder shrink...especially in males.   
      
      
             Ah.  Conserving heat, I suppose... as do the blood vessels & at   
   least one part of the anatomy which is unique to males!  I hadn't heard the   
   situation explained that way until now.  I was under the impression it was   
   more common in females because I've had the same problem since I was pregnant   
   with Nora.  :-))   
      
      
      
   DS>  On a funnier note,   
      
      
             It gets funnier?  You already had me chuckling above....  :-)))   
      
      
      
   DS>  when she had gone in for a colonoscopy, and I went in to   
   DS>  help her, the medical staff addressed me as "Mr. Harvey"   
   DS>  (her maiden name)...   
      
      
             Uh-huh.  One can't be sure nowadays that Dick & Jane & their 2.3   
   kids all have the same surname.  I made a similar mistake years ago when I   
   addressed the mother of one of my students as "Mrs. X".  She responded huffily   
   that *she* was "Miss Y".  I'm guessing she ditched "Mr. X's" surname when she   
   ditched him, and wasn't concerned about what others might think of her marital   
   status at the time the child was conceived.  Some years before this incident,   
   an older friend of ours called herself "Mrs. Z" & wore a wedding ring in   
   dealing with her son's school although to this day she has never married.  How   
   times have changed!  If Janice preferred to keep her maiden name I don't blame   
   her.  As a teacher I had to redo almost every form I'd filled in since junior   
   high school, together with an explanation for the change on each one, when I   
   married Dallas.  If I'd known beforehand about the paperwork, I might have   
   kept my maiden name... [wry grin].   
      
      
      
   DS>  I get the Gatorade when I go grocery shopping. When I eat   
   DS>  out, I try to get either Sprite, Sierra Mist, or 7-Up (clear   
   DS>  liquid). But, I'm trying to get away from the caffeine, more   
   DS>  than the carbonated beverages.   
      
      
             I take it you live in the US, where many carbonated beverages seem   
   to have caffeine added.  In this country Sprite, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, etc. do   
   *not* include caffeine.  And Fresca, brought to us by the same company which   
   supplies Coca-Cola, contains neither sugar nor caffeine... it does contain   
   aspartame.  I can't help thinking at times that it must be one of Canada's   
   best-kept secrets, however, judging by the reaction I get when I take it to   
   the cash desk....  :-)   
      
      
      
   DS>  ... Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?   
      
      
             Do they?  Okay... let me guess!  There are certain set procedures   
   for giving injections regardless of the reason for giving them, meaning you &   
   I can rest assured that nobody will have mixed up the needles or tried to save   
   a buck at our expense.  OTOH I'm also reminded of a guy who was told he   
   couldn't use a power chair to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath.  I   
   understand why others may hesitate to force domestic animals or hired help...   
   including bus drivers... to work on such occasions.  Four or five thousand   
   years ago the idea of allowing a day off once a week was progressive & having   
   everybody observe the same day was convenient... but how folks get from there   
   to the idea that one mustn't require electrons to work on Saturday or Sunday   
   is AFAIC a matter of preferred learning style.  Our friend thought so too, and   
   eventually found another synagogue.  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)