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I haven't had any funny healthcare moments, although there are a couple of providers I really enjoy seeing, and I always feel like they enjoy seeing me as well.

I'm suspicious about Trump's venous insufficiency (CVI). You can "get" CVI as a result of varicose veins - more common in women, but not unheard of in men, especially obese, sedentary men like Trump. Another way to get it is post-thrombotic syndrome as I mentioned above, but aside from post-thrombotic syndrome, the most common way to get CVI is from congestive heart failure (CHF). I think Trump is a prime candidate for CHF. I think they could withhold that information from the nation and still convince themselves that they are being fully transparent.

The DVT causes the venous insufficiency - they call it post-thrombotic syndrome.

I have it. As the result of a clotting disorder I have had many incidents of DVT and 2 of Pulmonary Embolus. The leaflet valves, which send blood back toward the heart from the lower extremities have been compromised so the blood tends to pool in my legs and feet. I'm manic about the self care for this - I wear compression socks from the moment I get out of bed till the moment I crawl into bed. The foot of my bed is elevated on blocks, I elevate my feet during the day, I stay active by going to the gym several times a week and going for a long walk every day. Because I'm so proactive, my feet don't look too bad, a little swollen, but my skin is in good condition and isn't discolored. I stay close to my vascular surgeon.

I cuddled with an escort once. I really enjoyed it - it was a unique situation, but I would cuddle again with him in a heartbeat. When I was a competitive bodybuilder, my husband would travel with me and help me shave. There was one show he didn't want to go to because it was in late 2021, the tail end of the worst of the pandemic, and he didn't want to risk air travel. I contacted a guy I had been looking at on RM, told him what I wanted, told him also that play was probably not a possibility because I would be exhausted from my contest prep. He showed up, we chatted and got acquainted, he got out his gear and went to work. It took at least two hours because he was meticulous. Having a man remove nearly every hair on your body turns out to be a pretty intimate exercise. As he shaved, we talked about this and that, and we ended up in one gyration after another. He shaved my hole, he shaved my dick and my balls, he would have shaved the hair on my head and my eyebrows if I had let him. Then he gave me a massage and wrapped his big arms around me awhile. I was falling asleep and said it was time to wrap it up. He said he felt like he hadn't done his job. I told him no, you went above and beyond and I couldn't be happier. I told him I would text him to let him know how I did. It turned out that I won both the classes that I entered and I told him I couldn't have done it without him, which was literally true.

When I lived in Germany in the 70s, that was very much the norm - you had to ring a doorbell, they would open a little door so they could see whether you were police or not, and then let you in. OTOH, there was an enormous gay bar in Berlin called the Big Eden. Then, there was a bar in Saarbruecken, called Chez Madame. You rang the doorbell and this gracious lady, Madame, dressed in a floor length hostess gown, welcomed you in. I was told by insiders that Madame was actually German but pretended to be French, which makes sense because it was so close to the French border. She would only speak French though. Though customers were a mix of French and Germans.

I have known guys, who were older men when I was a younger man, who waxed nostalgic for the days when we were outlaws --- public toilets, parks, dark bars that could only be accessed from an obscure back door off of an alley, etc.

Isn't that "assplay?" People that are into fisting differentiate ass play and fisting.

Is it Cafe Demel that has been in operation for hundreds of years?

I've seen him once. He's definitely a repeat - really enjoyed him. I can imagine him a regular.

I was glad to see him go. He and I Iocked horns constantly - it seemed like he always looking for a fight, although I was never one to say no when he picked a fight.

Just wow! He looks great clothed and out of this world without clothes.

I knew an age management doc who decided to add it to the services he offered. He went off and did a course or workshop of a few days, bought the equipment and hung out his shingle. He might have fit in the category of "dime-a-dozen scammers." If I wanted cold liposuction, I don't think I would have gone to him.

Kidneys: drink plenty of water, and avoid high protein intake. Dunno about the liver.

Sounds wonderful. I long for a log cabin on a private lake with an airstrip in the middle of nowhere.

There are scammers everywhere out there - pig butchers, phony bills for stuff you never ordered, texts demanding payment for traffic tickets you never got, people who misrepresent themselves in one way or another. It's very disillusioning - makes me want to move to a quiet place in the country and go completely off the grid.

Thanks very much. Now that Truvada is generic in the US, there's no reason to bother with the offshore route. I took it long enough ago that I think my copay for 90 days was $300 or so.

My evolution has proceeded such that I'm no longer comfortable with the label "gay." Nothing has changed WRT my sexual behavior - I'm still exclusively a man who has sex with other men only, but "gay" just doesn't fit anymore. If the subject comes up, I just say that I'm into men, which feels a lot more acccurate.

Maybe so. I don't remember what my co-pay for Truvada was. When I found that I could get a generic for Truvada offshore for a small fraction of the US cost of Truvada, I started doing that.

Yes, I had the same conversation with my provider. I have early stage III CKD, but as long as I mind my P's and Q's, my GFR stays above 60. My Prep nurse got rather pushy about switching to Descovy. I'm with Kaiser, so my only expense would be a co-pay. The upshot of the conversation was that I realized I was tired of messing with PREP, so I stopped the Truvada and didn't start Descovy.

I am amazed at the number of hunky, gorgeous men in nursing.

Older than average are fine by me.

I think Michael Vincenzo got some kind of office job - office manager, accounting, something like that. He told me, but I don't remember exactly what.

With the whole story, makes perfect sense.

You didn't even try it? Seems a shame.