Question for you, since you are in the medical field and all. You may not know the answer, and that's cool. If we have any medical professionals lurking, please feel free to kick in with an answer. Of course, I realize that none of this will substitute for a consultation with my primary care physician and all the standard disclaimer stuff. How soon after an appendectomy is it ok to have sex?

Oh, uh, and any of you who have had an appendectomy and asked the doc this question, feel free to chime in.

No idea.

I just got off the phone with my good friend, Jack Kevorkian. He stated that you should always wait until the anethesia wears off. This prevents unwanted rape charges. Good luck!

I had a boyfriend who had an appendectomy. I think the doctor said 10 wks. before sex was okay. Which didn't stop us from trying after 6. BUT-- at least wait til the stitches are removed (unless you got the dissolvable ones). And let her do all the work. Any stress on those muscles/anything that causes pain or tension there/is a no-no. Basically 69 w/me on top was what we resorted to most of the time. It took a good 4 mos. before he was up for sraight-up sex. And the Percodans were fun.

How long after my liver transplant before I can resume drinking?

"Let her do all the work. Any stress on those muscles/anything that causes pain or tension there/is a no-no." That more or less sums it up. Sex itself isn't so much a problem, just the related abdominal stresses. But even oral attention in the first month or more may be a problem, as for me at least, the abdominals play a large role at the moment of truth. I've pulled my stomach muscles during a couple of really great episodes and it hurt like hell, kinda killing the moment.

As soon as you can lift your arm up to your mouth,you have already wasted valuable drinking time.Remember what Social Distortion had to say about your liver exploding,you have 15 more years,use them wise.

Wow.

The more I think about this, I don't think I was clear enough on the stress thing. Go monastic for a couple months. Even self-indulgence is dangerous. An orgasm involves all kinds of involuntary muscle contractions. I can certainly sympathize with wanting to get it on ASAP, but you unzip your abdominal wall, it doesn't tickle.

Salt peter&and picture of Ms. Reno?

janet reno isn't that ugly. anyway, the attorney general doesn't have to be a babe. it sucks that women politicians get picked on for their looks so much. only the very grossest of the men politicians do.

Oh,come on Cyst,she,s butt ugly,I,ve seen better heads on beer,and she is the grossest of the woman politicians,she,s about the only woman in politics that anyone ever says anything about.I,m all down for the fact that she,s a woman,who has worked her way up the political ladder,but she,s a bow-wow.Markus,do you think you could get it up for her?Not that I even think she would want a man.She seems pretty butch to me.

Madalene Albright, she's a hottie......I have to agree with Cyst, how many hot politicians do you see, and when was the last time a male politician was scrutinized for his looks

I can rip on Ted Kennedy big time,but if it was John Jr.thats another thing all together.And I hate to burst your bubble,but I know many stupid women who will defend Bill Clinton just cause they think he,s hot,and my bestfriend Bruce has dreams about him,thats one thing we can,t talk about if we want to be friends.He,s coming here to Phoenix today,still trying to pass himself off as human.You overestimate the I.Q. of the general public.

Bill is one out of many many many politicians and he happens the hold the highest office, mere coincidence.

I don,t ever hear anyone rip on Sandra Day O'Conner,there are many many women in politics Reno just happens to hold the highest office,coincidence?

she holds one of the highest offices in the judicial branch, a branch of the govt. which is not in the spot light as much as the president. and when was the last Sandra Day O Conner was in the news. We rarely hear about anyone in the judical branch, muchless the supreme court...

I don,t think we are talking about the same thing,at least nobody is calling Sandra ugly.Reno is fucking ugly,and since Markus hasn,t responded,let me just ask you,could you get it up for her?Thats all I,m asking,could you?Be honest.

Don't worry. The way politics have been going recently, I predict that, in the next few years, you will see all the politicians replaced by cloned replicas of Cindy Crawford and Carmen Electra. Would that make you happy?

Fuck no!!!

Ronald Reagan was a Jim Henson project

I guess when you want to refer to a well-known ugly woman, you have to choose one of the few women who hold high political office. because pretty much all other women celebrities are actresses and models.

I don't think Janet Reno is ugly.

I don't think she's ugly, either. But fucking Strom Thurmond creeps me out big, big, big time.

Oh, BTW: I visited the person who had had the appendectomy. Seems he's been spanking it since like his 3rd day out of the hospital, maybe his 2nd, and the Doc greenlighted him to have sex as soon as his body told him it was ok. Which wasn't by the time I left, but I imagine everything will be groovy eventually. And, y'know, when you're really into someone...torturing yourself by repeatedly and creatively not having sex is...well, awesome.

Um....gotta go with Jeannette on the Reno issue (who, by the way, is in the executive branch). And as for the question, well, I can't (and don't want to) imagine facing such a dilemma. Though the word in official DC is that she's an asexual lesbian. Ugliest politician award will perpetually go to Jesse Helms, until he finally dies or is revealed to be an extraterrestial lifeform.

attorney general=executive branch????? ok

DOJ = Executive Branch, the whole damned thing

Is it just me, or are these boards losing posts?

Termites man,termites.

Better call Orkin.:-)

Does anyone but me, until now, come to these boards from sorabji.com? I only ask this because, I think, our fearless leader seems to have removed the boards from the directory on the home page. I tried all the links but couldn't get here. Then I remembered I had a direct link to the boards. Home at last.

Mark, Regarding your new telephone exchange project. When I was in the day hospital for my depression last year I noticed something on one of my Lunch time walks. I noticed a very old Oak tree that had been carved on back in the late 50's. And, part of the carving included a telephone number in the old exchange style. I doubt anyone but me has noticed that carving in many a year.

i, too, noticed the "new messages" link had been removed from sorabji.com. not only that. one time, i tried to get here by google searching key words. that used to work, but this time i could find nothing. i think this site has been cut off from the rest of the world. hang on to that link.

i don't remember when or why i removed that "wander around" thing off the top page, but it's back now. i also don't know why the site is so flippin' slow since after getting knocked offline during the storm, but i'm getting ready to move this site to a new box anyway so maybe it won't matter. actually, now that i think of it, i was getting some unwanted attention, so i killed all links from the top page for a while. i blocked search engines from this section a long time ago to keep spammers from finding it. this message board software is easily spammable. i'd love to see that tree carving.

I have the message boards bookmarked, so I have to admit I haven't seen the home page in forever. I'll go check it out.

someone (not me) cleared up the post-Sandy network sinuses allowing the sorabji server to work fast again. i'd still love to see that tree carving.

Since you were nice enough to fix this little problem. I'll try to get a picture in the not to distant future. I'll send it to you by email.