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Unicorn, your advice was very helpful, but I've made an appointment to see a doctor. Also, thank you for racking your brain to help me out on this! Unfortunately, my primary care doctor is in my home state. . I was able to get a good GI doc's name name before I could find a good ENT, so I went with the former. I'll probably data-dump him with everything I can think of.

Thank you to everyone. The posts were extremely helpful. I'm embarrassed to say this, but when I woke up, the swallowing pain was nearly gone, after having been there for nearly six weeks. I can still feel a lot of tension in that area though. Regardless I made an appointment with a gastroenterologist whom I'll be seeing soon..

Thank you, Unicorn. That is extremely helpful. From the diagrams I see, the area where I feel the pain is in the back of the throat (epiglottis maybe), not as far down as the esophagus. (Of course, now that I'm trying to figure out where it is, the pain disappears.) So from what you wrote, that sounds like a job for an ENT?

Wow, I really screwed that up. I meant that, as William implied, "It's not very smart to post about these things [health issues] here [on a message board] as it makes you [the general you, e.g. me] sound like a hypochondriac." William has shown no signs of being a hypochondriac, so I would never have thought of that. I almost substituted "one"for "you," but I thought "one" sounded pretentious. Thickornotatall, I appreciate your pointing that out. I've PM'd with William for some time, and I would have been really upset if I had offended him. Added: William, if I offended you or anyone else, I'm really sorry. That was the opposite of my intent.

After thinking about it some more, I now realize that there may be something else that's exacerbating the problem. I will go to a doctor as soon as I can get in a name and get in. Yes, t's not very smart to post about these things here as it makes you sound like a hypochondriac. Actually, I would have kept ignoring it if I hadn't Googled. Deej, thank you. You're right about not making it worse. BVB, thank you for the PM. William, I really appreciate hearing from someone who has been there. Whipped, I see what you are saying about too much information. I consider myself pretty good at synthesizing information, but I know too little about anatomy to figure out what's really going on.

Thank you, guys. I'm really hoping that you're right.

I'm going to put myself out there and say this on the board. In mid-May, a few days after an extensive dental cleaning, I started feeling some pain while swallowing food. I thought it would go away, but it has continued since then. I just searched online and found that this is an "ominous" symptom of esophageal cancer. The one risk factor I have is eating very few fruits and vegetables. I don't have any of the others risk factors: drinking alcohol, smoking, obesity, acid reflux. I also have none of the other symptoms: coughing , chest pain, food feeling like it's stuck in my throat. If it's oral HPV, that would be incredibly bad luck given the small number of partners I've had for that. I avoid jumping to worst case conclusions, but it's disturbing to see that trouble swallowing isn't really a symptom of much else. I had an extensive physical in January. I've called a doctor I know to see if he can recommend an ENT. I was going to wait until after my deadline to go to a doctor, but I think I'm going to go as soon as I can get an appointment. I'll also call the dentist and ask what, if anything, the hygienist saw during the cleaning. I'm really scared.

High speed chase in Colorado accompanied by the Benny Hill theme Life imitating art (if you can call GTA that)? Or the other way?

Based on links I've seen here and elsewhere, Tumblr's platform has attracted more adult content bloggers anyway. Tumblr, owned by Yahoo, had tried also tried to restrict adult content but backtracked after its users protested.

QTR has posted that she's a woman. I totally missed that though until she repeated it in a PM to me.

If we're allowed to TBT, Robert Redford and Paul Newman in their 40s and 50s. (I developed a taste for the latter after watching Exodus. Or maybe the reason is that one of my relatives, when he was young, looked like Paul Newman.)

As the song goes, you can't get a man with a gun or with explicit demands. From what I've seen, what convinces many men to commit is the tacit threat that his girlfriend can and would trade up if she's not being treated well. (And women? If they're unwilling to commit, they're usually out of the relationship before the discussion even comes up.) [video=youtube;hGB7yTZEZE4]

The big cities passed it up because they don't use military type equipment or because the equipment they passed up wasn't up to their standards?

Hey, I learned a lot from my first few computers. When I was just a tiny puff, my family got our first computer, an old TI bought several years after the company discontinued it. The OS was BASIC, so it came with a instruction guide for that language. I set to work learning the language and soon coded some simple games and random number generators. But then my brother would unplug the computer and the RAM was immediately erased. Soon after, my dad's company started loaning out a Mac to employees. I learned to type on that machine, using some app we bought. IIRC with 256K RAM. I'd often have to delete sentences from reports when I got the full message.

My priorities would be a totally flat bed and high enough walls to shield the kitten from the eyes of passers by. A makeup mirror would be great.

I did get the chance to fly in a corporate 727 a while ago. :o

You won't be lonely on that Citation for long, darling.

You're generous to hire an escort for him, Joey. How wonderful that he has time to live openly as the man is. I hope he has a great experience with whomever you choose.

How about Tom Ford from last year's "Looking Good for an escort" thread?

I was on a date at a club live music on Saturday. A pair of 6' tall, skinny 25-year-old girls came up on stage to dance alongside the lead singer. I wanted to go up too but thought I might look chubby compared to these girls--especially when they were in black and I was in white! But I figured that I've got a nice build, looked hot in my white dress, and that is the best I'm going to look for the rest of my life. So I went on stage and danced with the lead singer and the 2 girls. If someone snarked, I wouldn't know about it. All I remember is the awesome experience of being on stage in front of a lot of people and dancing my heart out. Many of us will look back in 10 or 20 years and think we looked great. So if you get something out of wearing a Speedo, do it. YOLO.

My fave but it doesn't provide a full body image unless you have a 5 foot iPad. As for speedos, I've seen guys in their mid-50s and beyond who would look amazing in them. I prefer the look of small trunks though.

Australian PM says Australian officials have possibly found objects in Indian Ocean relating to search for flight MH370 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26659583 Here are the satellite images: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjJxqOSCEAA0FDd.jpg:large

So you're saying that the co-pilot screwed up? But that doesn't explain why the plane continued to fly for so long after the communications systems were turned off, and with no apparent opposition from the pilot.

Desire to disguise the fact that it was a murder/suicide in order to allow his family to collect insurance money. Or maybe the pilot liked the idea of a mysterious death which would go down as a footnote in history.

A Vietnamese air force search plane found 2 oil slicks that have come from the missing jetliner. I'm praying for the missing and their families. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/