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Wishing you all the best in determining why you're having pain during swallowing. I'd avoid the medical self-diagnosis, because resources online often point to the most serious of conditions, that aren't applicable to people. Hopefully just some gastric reflux, seasonal allergy related issue, or perhaps a dental issue. It's great that you're being so proactive about finding out what's going on, though! Some people delay seeking treatment for fear of what it "might" be and end up suffering unnecessarily when the real cause turns out to be something very treatable.
 
Just remember, that esophageal cancer statistically comprises less than 1% of all new cancer cases year year; it's very very rare! Much more likely you've got something more innocuous and VERY treatable. Please take care!

Everyone has their own ideas and perceptions about what a BFE is and what it involves. For many people the experiences of past relationships are what we use to define the interactions that we seek out in such an encounter.
 
How do you as a companion prepare for this type of request? Do you specifically ask? Do you instinctively know? Are they more difficult for you? More enjoyable? More taxing?
 
Clients: What defines this type of experience for you?

...talked to or asked out by regular guys because everyone is to afraid to talk to them.

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..

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+1 on the stop googling. I once convinced myself I had leprosy.

Wishing you all the best in determining why you're having pain during swallowing. I'd avoid the medical self-diagnosis, because resources online often point to the most serious of conditions, that aren't applicable to people. Hopefully just some gastric reflux, seasonal allergy related issue, or perhaps a dental issue. It's great that you're being so proactive about finding out what's going on, though! Some people delay seeking treatment for fear of what it "might" be and end up suffering unnecessarily when the real cause turns out to be something very treatable.
 
Just remember, that esophageal cancer statistically comprises less than 1% of all new cancer cases year year; it's very very rare! Much more likely you've got something more innocuous and VERY treatable. Please take care!

if.you.are.taking.steroid.medications.inhalers.other.medications.thrush.may.be.an.issue.someone.mentioned.heartburn.GERD.frequently.will.present.as.painful.swallowing./////I.agree.with.those.who.suggest.seeing.a.professional.your.PCP.may.be.enough.or.at.least.she.may.point.you.in.the.right.direction.

I think it's just going to take time for the 787 to find its groove. Much like the auto manufacturers are experiencing with the recent backlash from airbags, Boeing has felt the heat over third party battery issues they didn't have direct control over.
 
All problems aside, she remains a technological sophisticated aircraft with amazing design for a commercial craft.
 
I remember when Cirrus first introduced the SR20 and Diamond the DA-20; the GA community was pretty leery of the composites designs the manufacturers chose for them. Since then, I've flown both, and found them to be enjoyable for different reasons.
 
The SR-22 has become my favorite aircrafts to fly and my first "low wing" transition aircraft beyond some hours in an older Mooney. I like it much better than the C172 G1000 I got my instrument rating on.
 
Oh what I wouldn't give to log some flight time in a 787 simulator!! :cool:

Like California...I better start rationing before the well goes dry....

...talked to or asked out by regular guys because everyone is to afraid to talk to them.

That is a lot of work when you are high all the time. Where did you find the energy? When I am high, I can barely move.

LOL, you are so gonna get spanked when he reads this....but wait, perhaps that's the point.

LOL, you are so gonna get spanked when he reads this....but wait, perhaps that's the point.

Operant conditioning is your friend.
 
And a good orgasm is a powerful reinforcer.
 
Find a guy who looks more or less like whatever type you wish to become attracted to and who gives good sex.
 
Human neural circuitry remains fairly plastic even into ages much older than your own.You might be surprised how fast your taste in men broadens.
 
Anyway it worked for me.

Gilbert you are totally alone and amazingly isolated in this preference. No one on this site likes younger muscular men. We loathe such men. We unclog our noses at them. In fact, the entire escort industry is predicated on men of a certain means, hiring men who are not young, muscular, handsome, talented, with engaging personality and a quick wit. How else can one explain Steven Kesslar?

As partisan as things always have been -- and in some ways the rhetoric, if nothing else, was worse in the 19th century, when personal invective was considered par for the course, than it is now-- there was a time in my lifetime when there was more bipartisanship, especially on foreign policy, and less polarization. From what I understand, this might have been a leftover from WWII, when the country was mostly united. Nothing unites us as easily as a common enemy.
 
The Civil Rights Act and other domestic legislation of the 60s could not have passed without Republican votes wrangled by Everett Dirksen behind the scenes. (In other words the Republicans still remembered their Civil War era roots and weren't white supremacists' party of choice back then.) Richard Nixon, may he rest in peace -- bright but neurotic guy who demanded his underlings put protecting him above their offices, which was his undoing -- was a lefty on domestic policy by comparison to Republicans these days. Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan served in an important policy position under Nixon. The EPA and the Legal Services Corporation were founded during the Nixon Administration. He may have made changes along the margins that favored business more than had been the case under LBJ, and his propensity for dirty tricks and seeing enemies around every corner led the FBI and CIA to even greater violations of civil liberties than before, but his administration and that of Gerald Ford largely continued LBJ's domestic policies.
 
This unity remained even under Ronald Reagan, whose administration I still mostly despise but for whom I don't have the hatred I used to have. (George W. Bush's administration and reading excerpts from Reagan's diaries cured me.) Reagan and Speaker Tip O'Neill had a cordial working relationship even though they differed over policy, and O'Neill let his Democrats vote on bills instead of blocking them unless a majority of his party members supported them, as the House Republicans now do.
 
It seems as though things went south starting with the Clinton administration, mostly because the Republicans decided that bipartisanship and putting the interests of the people as a whole first, as opposed to the people who could get them nominated, was no longer in their interests.
 
I don't have any solutions to offer other than to suggest that we get the government we deserve. People complain about negative ads, but they work. They complain about sensationalism in media, but it gets clicks and attention. As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

If only we had more people in both the House and Senate that were truth tellers and willing to send sacred cows to slaughter; I find her pragmatism refreshing.
 
If anything it gives me hope that eventually our partisan elder-statesmen (and women) will stop choking each other long enough to notice America's meteoric disintegration soon enough to change course and prevent an extinction level event.
 
Idealistic of me perhaps, but I truly long for an age of willing compromise and progress. As it stands the vitriol the opposing Party has for any sitting President coupled with a fear that he or she might possibly be viewed in the slightest positive light, prevents compromise on any issue. We've arrived at a time where the needs of the Party supersede those of the Nation; a dangerous place.
 
Perhaps this is why I love that old campy Sci Fi movie "Mars Attacks"; when the Martians wipe out all of Congress and most of the Senate; finally we overcome a lack of term limitations!
 
"I'd like the American people to know that they've still got 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them and that ain't bad!" ~~ Jack Nicholson.

When I was in my early 30's I was asked by a college freshman to attend a football game in the President's box (another story as to why). As I sat there enjoying the game I took note of the cheesecake that was embossed with gold foil signature initials of the President; the lavish gourmet repaste was delicious but it quickly became painfully obvious where tuition money was going.
 
I understand that at times Universities must spend money on such functions to secure large donations and endowments, but having paid for my own education I simply couldn't help but ponder how many semester hours that entire event would have funded, or degrees for that matter.
 
In reading about the breathtaking salaries for Reagents in California is has become pretty clear that some of these 450k+ salaries aren't sustainable.
 
I wonder how many students it took to finance that cheesecake and how many are still paying for it years later.

If only we had more people in both the House and Senate that were truth tellers and willing to send sacred cows to slaughter; I find her pragmatism refreshing.
 
If anything it gives me hope that eventually our partisan elder-statesmen (and women) will stop choking each other long enough to notice America's meteoric disintegration soon enough to change course and prevent an extinction level event.
 
Idealistic of me perhaps, but I truly long for an age of willing compromise and progress. As it stands the vitriol the opposing Party has for any sitting President coupled with a fear that he or she might possibly be viewed in the slightest positive light, prevents compromise on any issue. We've arrived at a time where the needs of the Party supersede those of the Nation; a dangerous place.
 
Perhaps this is why I love that old campy Sci Fi movie "Mars Attacks"; when the Martians wipe out all of Congress and most of the Senate; finally we overcome a lack of term limitations!
 
"I'd like the American people to know that they've still got 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them and that ain't bad!" ~~ Jack Nicholson.

Maybe, maybe not.
 
My original reason for being for Hillary in 2008 was that I thought Barack should run once he learned how to get bills passed. I actually think that given his lack of administrative experience, he has done a really good job. If he had learned what LBJ learned before being elected, I think he could have done better. Or maybe his problem is he is too nice a guy, and LBJ was better at getting laws passed because he was a total prick. Life is strange, and politics is not always a sport in which nice guys win.
 
I am glad Elizabeth Warren is not running. Regardless of who wins in 2016, I hope she plays a huge role in the Senate. Like Paul Wellstone, the danger is she will only be viewed as a ranter and raver. Wellstone figured that out, and we'll never known what he might have done had he lived. With luck, we'll learn what Elizabeth Warren is capable of. I actually hope I will get to vote for her for President some day, when she is an older and wiser whore. Oh, forgive me. I mean leader.

I've said this before: I think Elizabeth Warren is superbright and her ideas, especially about the financial crisis and economic issues, are on the money. Her background is in law and economic analysis. She works from facts and studies, not assumptions, and she's willing to slay sacred cows.
 
But ... she has never in her life run anything or been an administrator. She is a truthteller, not (as far as I can tell) a natural at legislative negotiation and compromise. She's not enough of a whore, to use Steven Kesslar's term.
 
She is far more useful as a Senatorial gadfly and conscience than she would be running for preside, and her virtues are too intellectual and left-wing for her to win. Much the same can be said of Bernie Sanders.
 
She'd also make a fine Supreme Court justice.

I absolutely LOVE her. She's completely unafraid to take both sides of the aisle to task. Her scathing speech about the necessity to bust Citibank apart and the subtle yet painful links of its alumni to bipartisan campaign contributions and "fox guarding henhouse" mentality at the Federal Reserve were blisteringly passionate. If she ever runs for President she has my vote.

One other comment on the role of big business.
 
As a liberal Democrat, I don't view the US Chamber of Commerce as my natural ally. But I like the fact that in the 2014 midterms, they had the effect of taking Tea Partyish wingnuts out of the political process. Whether this means we really get a more moderate and bipartisan Conress that gets things done remains to be seen. Maybe it just got us a Republican Congress that will give us more gridlock. But I think the Chamber and I are mostly of one voice: we need to work toward bipartisan and pragmatic solutions.
 
I think the same thing applies to the growing chorus of businesses that are saying there are serious skills gaps for good paying jobs. As I've said on other posts, this is a great problem to have, compared to the idea during the Great Recession that all the good jobs are gone, or at least gone to China. All my political experience suggests that the Chamber will feel that big business is, in effect, being victimized, and that the problem is that all the taxes they already pay are being misspent by the government, and they should be spent differently so that the government somehow produces more skilled workers using the tax dollars they already have. To me, this is an opportunity for compromise, because it means they are going to be willing to come to the table and figure out something that will help create a better educated and better skilled work force. They clearly are starting to speak about the need for it.
 
Final point: Pew surveys have documented that the Millenials are both the most liberal generation alive today, and the most pro-corporate generation. This makes perfect sense to me. All my nieces and nephews that are financially successful work for multi-national corporations: hospitality, drugs, accounting. They get the picture that their fate is tied to the fate of global capitalism. To me the political emphasis is obvious, and I wish the Millenials would wake up and drive it: we need the best education system that feeds workers into the global capitalistist work force but still tries to balance that goal with traditional liberal arts, and we need to figure out 1000 creative ways to demand that, as part of the deal, businesses at every level help these young people keep learning and developing skills after they graduate and get jobs. Starbucks is one interesting model of how business can do that. Easy to say, hard to do, but I think survey says it is what the young people most effected want.

Speaking of having a debate about our investment priorities:
 
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/11/elizabeth-warren-outlines-debt-free-college-plan-calls-more-funding-higher-ed
 
When it comes to this issue, Elizabeth Warren is my gal! I love her.
 
What do you folks think of these ideas?
 
To quote her, on a political level, this is what it boils down to to me:
 
Making college more affordable, she said, would require a boost in federal spending but also greater accountability for how colleges and states use that money -- a “one-two punch” that she said should have bipartisan appeal.
 
“We can do it if Republicans admit that we will never have affordable college without investing more resources in education,” she said. “And if Democrats admit that we will never have affordable college without demanding real accountability in exchange for those investments.”