[QUOTE=kladner;446171]Cleaning out the day before was the onerous part. A bonus for coming to was that I got to see a parrot-beak-like device munching on a polyp. There was no discomfort in any of it.[/QUOTE]The best-laid plans never survive first contact with the enema.

[QUOTE=xilman;446168]Rather second-rate port, to be precise, even though the weather isn't stormy here.[/QUOTE]

Nice. :smile:

[QUOTE=xilman;446167]Getting there. Now 24 hours post-op and in much less discomfort.[/QUOTE]

Very good to hear!!! 8-)

For those who might experience this kind of thing in the future, meditation can be a powerful personal tool.

After I herniated a disc during an "Away Hash" about ten years ago, my osteopath suggested I let her try acupuncture (while under her care, I almost couldn't walk).

I agreed, but I had to go into a "happy place" in my mind while this was being done to me. As previously documented I *hate* needles, and pass out at the site of blood.

While many don't think Osteopathy nor acupuncture works, I found it did _for me_.

Also, I am somewhat fearful of how often [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o"]Opioids are prescribed[/URL].

[QUOTE=xilman;446176]The best-laid plans never survive first contact with the enema.[/QUOTE]
In my case, it was large numbers of tablets spread over the entire day. Much water was consumed, and discharged. They told me that I was totally clean. I guess one could call this arranging an enema from the front end.

[QUOTE=kladner;446187]In my case, it was large numbers of tablets spread over the entire day. Much water was consumed, and discharged. They told me that I was totally clean. I guess one could call this arranging an enema from the front end.[/QUOTE]It was for me too, but one should never let the opportunity for a good pun go to waste.

A good pun is its own reword.

[QUOTE=xilman;446210]It was for me too, but one should never let the opportunity for a good pun go to waste.

A good pun is its own reword.[/QUOTE]
:tu:

[QUOTE=xilman;446166] you have an exceedingly rare birth defect. Either case is relatively unusual, though rather more common in elderly men than the rest of the population.[/QUOTE]~1/2 of the population suffer from this "rare birth defect".
:barbie:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;446250]~1/2 of the population suffer from this "rare birth defect".
:barbie:[/QUOTE]

dyscalculia versus the environmental acalculia using wikipedia.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;446250]~1/2 of the population suffer from this "rare birth defect".
:barbie:[/QUOTE]We've been here before.

Once more, this time from [URL="http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/9/713.1.full"]The Female Prostate[/URL]

[quote]Contrary to the statement by Borchert et al. (1) that “Women have no prostate … ,” women do have a prostate, the presence of which has clinical significance for the female and for our understanding of the expression of prostate- specific antigen (PSA) in women and its possible implications.

In 1672 the anatomist Regnier de Graaf described and illustrated a set of glands and ducts surrounding the female urethra that he called the female prostate. Subsequently, in 1880, Alexander Skene redirected attention to this structure, particularly to two paraurethral ducts (Skene's ducts) therein, and emphasized their importance in infection of the female genitalia.

Skene's paraurethral glands and ducts are homologous to the male prostate (2). Recent studies supporting this homology, as reviewed by Zaviačič et al. (3,4), are postmortem and detailed histological examinations of the urethras of 130 women, followed by biochemical and immunohistochemical studies that demonstrated expression of PSA and prostate-specific acid phosphatase (PSAP) in Skene's paraurethral glands and ducts. These studies unequivocally substantiate the existence of the female prostate.

The female homologue of the male prostate is of clinical significance not only as a focus for acute and chronic infection, but also as the origin of other pathologic entities, including adenocarcinoma (3,4), a cancer which shows, as does its male counterpart, localized expression of PSA and PSAP (3,4).

Thus, there is convincing evidence that prostatic tissue exists in the female, and that the term “female prostate” is both fully justified and preferable to the terminology Skene's glands and ducts. The latter incorrectly implies that some other structure of an extraprostatic nature, rather than the prostate itself, is involved. If the female prostate exhibits the immunopermissiveness observed in the male prostate (5), it may also serve as a site for viral latency and origin of infection in women with human immunodeficiency virus.[/quote]

[QUOTE=xilman;446253]We've been here before.

Once more, this time from [URL="http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/9/713.1.full"]The Female Prostate[/URL][/QUOTE]
Aren't the reproductive organs pretty much derived from female-style precursors? Could this mean that the male arrangement was a later development?

While I was buying a metro ticket at Universitat station in Barcelona this evening, some miscreant engaged me in conversation then reached round and stole the phone from my jacket pocket. I've remote-erased the phone, which was fingerprint-locked anyway, and suspect the miscreant's fence lives on Carrer de Cordova near the C-31 road by the docks.