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God Blackthorne519! In a day and age where there are no more (MAJOR) wars… that probably deserves a purple heart! Wouldn’t catch me doing that!! And the same goes for all you other guys!

Hmm…I noticed that no one here so far has mentioned needles…err…the very word makes my stomach lurch. Stangely enough, even since I was about 5yrs I’ve never cried or put up a fight, but they scare the living day lights outta me!

Thanks George! Heh.

As for needles, let me tell you something about hemodialysis; they use big honking needles on you to do it.Ã,  Now, before this all happened, I was terrified of needles.Ã,  Getting blood drawn by a 21g needle would make me sick.Ã,  Dialysis, they use a 15g needle on you.




Yeah.Ã,  They're big; and you also have to have a little operation to have a vein in your arm enlarged.Ã,  This is called a fistula.Ã,  Sometimes it's simply your vein and artery tied together to create a larger, engorged vessel, but othertimes it's a teflon-Gore-Tex tube. I have a natural fistula, cause my veins were good enough!Ã,  Anyway, I got real used to needles, and now they can pretty much stick them wherever they want to.

If you click this link, you can see what a hemodialysis machine looks like.Ã,  I was hooked up to this, three times a week, four hours a shot.

A Hemo-Dialysis Machine

Bt

P.S. Terran..... I feel your pain!!!

I've learned that worrying about illness is useless.  Sadly, we are all going to die.  Some will live longer, some will live short lives.  Illness sucks, yeah.  I lost kidney function two years ago, and I did dialysis for a year, before I was lucky enough to get a transplant from my Dad.  But I went on, and I used what time I had.(Speaking of it, the transplant went well, until during another minor surgery a doctor messed up, damaged it, sewed me back up with the damaged kidney, damaging it even more, and causing me severe pain - I almost lost the newly transplanted kidney, and it took a lot of efforts from other doctors to save me, let alone the kidney.  Now, the transplanted kidney only works pretty half-assed, but it's better than doing fucking dialysis.) So, seriously folks quit worry, and fill up your life with quality things.  The point is really to fill up the time you have with what makes you feel good and what makes you happy.  Strive to achieve those goals you set; enjoy what you do. 

Which is why I fill my life with Booze, Hookers and Cigarettes.  I'm gonna go soon, but I'm goin' happy.



Bt

I'm leaving ags now...someday i maybe will join again...bye!!Ã,  :'(

Legge,

  You sure left your mark here.  Keep on practicing your skills.  With time and patience, you could make a fun game.  The want is obviously there.  Just master patience, which is difficult, and you'll succeed. 

That said, get the hell outta here!  Heh.  Just kidding.  Good luck on your future endeavours.

Bt

Holy shit BlackthorneÃ,  :o reading that made me laugh hysterically and feel very sick at the same timeÃ, 

Yeah, that's the way I look upon my medical stories.Ã,  One part revulsion, one part humour!

[HUGE]

Now, I challenge any man to fabricate a more awkward situation than mine which actually did occur. 

I recieved a kidney transplant about 9 months ago.  That's another LONG story, but during the operation, one has a "stent" placed inside their ureter, to hold it open so that after your new kidney is implanted, you can make and freely process urine.

The stent stays in for about 2-3 months sometimes, but it has to be taken.  Now, having all that surgery and spending lots of time in the hospital is embarresing enough.  I think half the staff of the hospital saw my ass hanging out of my gown as I walked the hallways over the next few days.

SO flash forward a few months, when I'm told I need to get the stent out.

Ok, no problem I say, bring it.  I can handle it.

I didn't give much thought to how they would TAKE the stent out, till it hit me.

They would take it out through that tiny hole in the top of my penis.

THEY WOULD STICK A HUGE SCOPE OR SOMETHING, AND GRASP THE STENT, AND RIP IT OUT OF ME THROUGH MY PEE HOLE!

By the time I could wrap my mind around this concept, I was already curled in a fetal position, sucking my thumb and humming the theme song from "The Smurfs".  So the nurse comes in, and says they can either do it in a clinic, where they apply some kind of novocaine gel to my private bits, and "extract" the stent.  Or they could put me in an operating room, sedate me, and extract it. 

"SEDATE MY ASS!" I screamed.

Well, concious sedation still sucks.  So, I'm laying on a table, LEGS in stirrups like I'm giving birth, this femal doctor PEERING between my legs, and I'm drunk like a college fresman, giggling and hooting as she applied a very COLD gel, to numb the area more.  Now, under concious sedation, you can still see, feel and hear things, but it's all detatched and dreamy.  They say that you don't remember anything, but at least for me that's bullshit.  Unfortunatly for me, having trained myself to maintain clarity through drug use, I saw and felt it all, though the medicines took off the painful edge, I felt her grab my penis, and shove this giant scope UP my penis, into my bladder, and probe around for the stent.  She felt it, grabbed it and BAM pulled this HUGE bloody chunk from OUT OF my PENIS.  Shortly thereafter I decided to sleep for a while.   When I woke up, I thought it was a dream.  Till I remembered it was real.

Bt

I'm OLD!!
I'm older today... 21, actually!

Man, if twenty-one is old, I'm ancient!  Happy birthday.

Bt

LostTraveler,

  I get what you're saying, about all the atrocities about America, but you must remember, for all the horrid things, there have been equal amounts of wonderful things.  No country is perfect, we can only hope to try and achieve a decent balance of the black and white.

Bt

All the art is done... The scripting is advancing... slowly...

It happens!!!  I must say, I am agreement with my fellow posters, I can't wait to play this one!!!!  The graphics I've seen so far look so nostalgic, I get excited.

Bt

Dear Blackthorne519:

Sorry if it seemed I tried to diminish whoever: as a matter of fact, unfortunately NOBODY KNOWS EVERYTHING.

Uh, Primus - I was refering to Ryukage in my posts, not anything you said. 
I was merely talking to my fellow country man about being so bold and accidentally insulting other people and their cultures.  Not one's perfect though; it's not just American's who do it.  We just do it VERY bluntly, and frequently!

Sorry if there was confusion....

Bt

Good lord.  A rant from a conservative Christian American........

Dude, you're just making yourself an example of why we, as American's, are ridculed over the globe.  And the childish defense of "They're just jealous." Doesn't cut it.  Being that haughty and ignorant (For someone who portends to knows A LOT about the semantics and linguistics of the English language, to not know that Brazil (Brasil! )is a Portugese speaking country, decided by the line of Demarcation by the pope in the age of exploration, is typical American ignorance.  Sigh.

I know you meant well, in stating that you love your country, and there's nothing wrong with that.  Most people love things because of their flaws as well as their strengths.  But being so bold, it's not suiting.  The wise and the truly great are humble.

Bt

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hamilton is approix. an hour from Toronto, half an hour from Niagra falls. 8)

Hamilton's a nice place.  Been through their many times on my trips to Canada.  I'm from Syracuse NY, which is about 3 and a half hours from there.

Bt

Easter Island has no pine trees.

Er... to any Americans reading this, are most of y'all anti-Canadian in your country?

Gods, not at ALL!Ã,  I love Canada; I live in Syracuse, New York, which is less than an hour and half from the 1000 Islands Bridge.Ã,  I've been to Canda many times, and I love the landscape, people and atmosphere up there.Ã,  It's a beautiful country; I've been to Toronto many times, and I've acted in festivals there as well as sang in a few in my youth.Ã,  I would say most of the people I know like Canada as well, but I DO think some of the government is worried about the potential for Canada to decriminalize Marijuana, because we all know that's the devils weed and if Canada makes it legal, somebody in America *might* smoke pot!!!!!!

Bt

P.S.  Sorry about the double post.  I'm a moron.

Somebody commented about how if a guy looks at one of these little sluts he's immediately a pervert.Ã,  This spawns a question ... "If you don't want the eyes on you ... why the f*ck are you dressing like that?"

I say we start a movement.Ã,  Whenever you see one of these little sluts just go up to them and say, "How much for sex?"Ã,  And then, when they get all indignant/mad/whatever just say, "Hey kid ... If I went out in public dressed like a soldier, people would assume I was in the army!!"Ã,  Meaning, for those who don't get it, that if you dress like a prostitute, people will think you are one.

Mandarb, this is a brilliant idea.  I live in New York, and we get some REAL nice slutty-dressing girls up this way.

Yeah, and I think that is a valid comment; Why dress that way if you DON'T want people to look?

Bt

BOYD:

I have tried with magnets and degaussing the screen but still no luck.

RTFP.

Read the effin' post.

The penis.... it slaps you.

[THINK BEFORE YOU POST]

George,

Ã,  Also, you have to have some webspace to which you upload your pictures.Ã,  I believe there is a thread listing in the critic's loungue, where you can find such sites to which you can upload your work.Ã, 

Also, in the editor box, there is a link above THINK BEFORE YOU POST.Ã,  It says BBCode and smileys reference.Ã,  Click this for help.

OR click here to see the reference page.  Hope this helps!

Bt

You all listen to dirty pop, rock and hard things, and to something I havent mentioned but anyway, nobody loves reggae here I see.

Dude, I used to give reggae a gander, but I can only take so much of it.  It reminds me of all my hippie friends who are just stoned and can tune out the repetitive chords and off-time beats.

Most of my friends were hippies in college.  We were PhishHeads.

The Buggles never did anything else.....

[Americans]

America is great.

13 year old girls dress like whores.

This is so disgustingly true - and this kind of behavior isn't just relegated to one part of the country or one ethnic type of group; it's affecting EVERYONE.... and it's scary.Ã,  Women role models in the country are just abhorrent.Ã,  It makes me sick.

Our most popular music is by low-life thugs glorifying violence & drugs or whore-sluts who lip-sync.

Again, true.Ã,  If I read another article in some music magazine, glorifying some rapper that "used to sell crack" to survive, I'm gonna flip.Ã,  I mean, what the fuck?Ã,  We're gloryfying this kind of lifestyle! I mean, seriously!Ã,  Every dude I read about either used to sell drugs, or do them, and now it's not like they stopped even though they're rich now!Ã,  They don't take their money and make a better life at all!Ã,  It's horrid!

You also forget the whiny, angry white-boy rocks bands who are pissed at the world cause they grew up male-middle class-and white.Ã,  Seriously.Ã,  Get over your gel hairdo and tribal tatoo, and quick screaming and grumbling in a mike.Ã,  There are 8 whole tones in a diatonic scale.Ã,  Learn more than one.

Most of the youth have totally tuned out and only care about partying and having fun and those that haven't are greedy capitilist pigs.

Where's my bong..... I'm out of Labatt Blue.......

The government is hated around the globe.

Our government is hated here.Ã,  I've never seen a bigger den of hypocracy and lies than Washington.Ã,  Not to say there aren't some good guys out there, they're just so few now.

We're fat and over indulged.

Tell me about it.Ã,  I'm overweight, and I don't bitch because I know it's my own fault.Ã,  I hate my fat friends who blame everyone but themselves.Ã,  WITH POWER COMES RESPONSIBILTY.Ã,  Sometimes just because you can afford six cheeseburgers doesn't mean you should eat them.Ã, 

Oh and we're free.

Real free.Ã,  Did you just hear of the Supreme Court ruling that ruled that not identifying yourself to a police officer is a crime.Ã,  Woot!

- Americans (juncmodule and Darth Mandarb): Are all the "slim" on TV and all the others are fat? Is it THAT high the number of "couch potatoes"? Do your teachers show the Brazilian map without the Amazonian Forest stating it's an "International Area" (there were some mails stating this, but I want to know if it was just an hoax or that actually happens).

-Felipe-

Yeah, most of the people on TV are TOO slim.  We have an odd balance of body image in the country.  We're either too fat or too skinny.  We American's have trouble finding middle ground.

Yeah, I mean, COUCH POTATOES (people who sit on couchs, fondling the remote control and watching mindless amounts of TV) are quite common.  It's sadly not a rumour or a myth.  We watch a lot of TV, and lately it's been that horrid reality programming.

No, I was always presented maps of Brasil with the rainforest Amazon areas as a part of it.  There are groups that are concerned with the conservation of the forest, but they're not involved in the school system.  They are private, and funded by venture capitalists who want to make themselves feel better.  Unfortunately, they forget they don't own the rainforest.

Well, one could complain all day about their countries, or praise them all day - but the fact remains is "home is where you make it."  Yeah, America is imperfect, but I love my home, my family and where I am.  It's been good to me, cause I'm still alive. 


Bt

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