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  1. With my variety of mobilty issues and extensive pre-workout mobility routine, it just doesn't make sense to work out with a partner. Also for the lifting part I now do a workout where I do the same thing every day, just doing two sets rather than 3-5. Most people like to work out differently. I may or may not find workout partners for the steamroom portion...
  2. Also google "cervical nerve flossing" for some pretty easy-to-do exercises of the "can't hurt, might help" variety. Sciatic nerve flossing did wonders for my lower extremity issues, but it took a couple of weeks before I noticed any difference.
  3. This is the pillow I used when I first developed neck issues: https://express.google.com/u/0/product/13535708803343286334_5529323595539327751_5511023?utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=tu_cu&utm_content=eid-lsjeuxoeqt%2Ceid-wuakzuqbuq&gtim=CP3-qt-ylv2t_AEQ2aiT2JrPsa9pGNCHmhQiA1VTRCjg09vnBTDvrtAC&utm_campaign=5511023&gclid=CjwKCAjw5pPnBRBJEiwAULZKvpH_qDIUxacg8NzRJLasqMTa9gCAq-jGG2ElCy_-BosEHxGtHSHHchoC1RYQAvD_BwE
  4. If you look at the MRI of my L4/L5 vertebra, the space in my spinal canal drops to a diameter less than 10% of the vertebrae above it. Nerve on bone. And that's what it looked like 18 years ago. I'm just saying you can have a scary-looking picture and be surprised at what you can do. And if I live long enough, I am certain I will need the surgery(bones get thicker as you get older and can't let that 10% go to 0% or I'm paralyzed.
  5. Something to think about - have the earlier medical issues led to changes in how you move? Like are you walking differently, tending to lean more to one side, etc? A lot of times these little compensations add up over time and then suddenly your body just says, no more. But fixing the movement patterns might address the pain as well as surgery. (and the surgery you are already having might lead you to stop doing whatever was causing the new pain).
  6. FYI: If you look at the MRIs of pain-free people, MANY of them will have herniated disks, bulging disks, "disc degeneration." Sometimes what's in the MRI is what's causing your pain, sometimes it isn;t. Good luck.
  7. I think it's normal to feel this way when something like this happens, but at the end of the day you can only be responsible for your own mental health, and realistically, it's not like you could have "fixed" his issues.
  8. I couldn't routinely do it with people I wasn't on some level attracted to, but OTOH I could imagine scenarios where I wouldn't care and if offered money I would probably take it just to have had the experience. I say if the money is good and it's something you don't MIND doing with the person, give it a shot.
  9. Go to a physical therapist and do your best to avoid making the surgery decision that suddenly. Get multiple surgical opinions. I had something similar with my lower back 18 years ago at age 30. Left leg was numb/weak and my back was constantly at a level of pain where I told the doctor that if you tell me this is just how it's going to be, I would be looking for ways to end my life. For nearly two months I couldn't walk longer than half a block without having to stop, and I was getting at best two hours of sleep a night due to the inability to find a pain-free position. I found all the pain meds did was reduce my anxiety about the pain, as opposed to the pain itself, which it just barely took the edge off. (What I told people was, it still hurts a lot, I just care less about it). I was ready to schedule surgery, then suddenly out of the blue I had a mostly pain-free day. I decided if the pain could go away that quickly, then maybe the surgery wasn't the answer. A second doctor said I didn't have to do it immediately, but I would be lucky to make it to 40 without surgery. I'm 48 now and still haven't had it, and I can run again(though decidedly not as fast as when younger).
  10. I don't get why you'd think you shouldn't check it out, especially since you had reason to be concerned about her decision-making ability. It's not a violation. I mean, ideally one of you would have been doing it periodically while she was alive. There wasn't really anything left to check in my mother's case, as her not-that substantial funds were exhausted by her care expenses at the end. As I had been subsidizing her, I provided my siblings with an accounting of what I had spent and I just got a correspondingly larger share of the home equity when we split it.
  11. sniper

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    Well there's also the fact that since in this country insurance follows the job, they run the risk of paying an extra couple thousand dollars they don't collect any premium to offset if the person picks up his 90 day supply then quits his job the next day. They do this with just about all similarly expensive drugs. They let you get 90 day supplies when the drug is cheap enough that the savings on transaction costs offsets the risk of paying a claim they weren't actually on the hook for.
  12. That's why a handheld shower should be standard...
  13. Nobody can read minds, the question is when he is with you does he seem engaged or just going through the motions? I found him to be engaged and I am nothing special to look at, and I've been with others who really made it clear they would rather be doing other things. He was gregarious and seemed happy to be there when I saw him. IF he's really totally straight, he's a decent enough actor I don't care.
  14. If the studio has a strict testing regimen, I could see that some would be willing to have sex on camera with a model but not for just anyone off the street.
  15. Things happen in ANY steamroom, it's just that now it only can really happen at off-times rather than peak, because it's no longer true that 90% of the guys in a steamroom at any given time are looking to play, it's more like 25-50%, which means the more people there, the more likely there is someone who will complain or react poorly.
  16. The race that is in the majority,mathematically speaking is always going to have the lowest rates of interracial marriage, because you can only marry one person at a time, and you each contribute to your own race's stats.. Think about it - imagine a population of 80 white people and 20 black people. At MOST, 25% of the white people can marry outside of their race, and if they do that, that means 100% of the black people are marrying outside of their race.
  17. A lot of Asian cultures aren't terribly egalitarian wrt the sexes,while American culture at least is moving more in that direction. So there's some room for American men and Asian women to be in a relationship where both feel like they are getting a "better deal" than dating their own race. Each has to do less for the other person than they would for one of their own race. (EG Asian woman is going from a 90-10 expected split of "work" to 70-30 and that feels like a win, white guy is going from 50/50 to 30/70 and that's a win for him. Numbers completely made up and just for illustration purposes).
  18. I don't see them going for it as the most likely outcome of such a scenario is more work for them for less revenue for them. I'm not saying you don't have a point that you are providing content and they are making money off it. But that's their model. If users had to pay each time to see albums, they'd likely just...look at fewer albums. And there are likely a large number of users who join JUST to look at the pictures, so contacting people who viewed you, even multiple times, is probably a waste of your time.
  19. It could also be a case of saying it to make themselves look better even if they are not open to all races. The fact is, the gay sites tend to focus more on hooking up so the people on them are less concerned with looking like a nice person.
  20. Was it possibly the end of a shift?
  21. Did you really fail in your career or was your career ended by your illness? You didn't get to do something you wanted to do. That's really not that uncommon. I think it's probably a good exercise to try to look forward to the things you can still do and think about it that way. Certainly easier said than done, but bailing on it seems like it's reinforcing your negative thought patterns. I don't mean to diminish your problems here, I'm just trying to think out what practically you can do. Your disease isn't going to go away, nor is it going to strike you down soon it seems, so you need to figure out how to make the most of what you are working with. As for the dead-end question - my sister is in a nursing home with a degenerative disease. She has a husband and kids. They see her like a couple of times a YEAR. Don't assume having your own immediate descendants would have been better. There are things worse than having no kids. Like having bad ones.
  22. Is it his second? I thought someone had mentioned his father had the same name and had a record.
  23. I find it surprising that none of the usual porn blogs seem to have covered this at all. They're usually all over stuff like this.
  24. It's a place with an expectation of privacy plus most gyms have explicit policies banning cameras in the locker room. In any case the person would have a civil cause of action in any state(i.e. you might not be subject to arrest but you could get sued).
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