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You're almost middle-aged and dumpy, and heading rapidly down-hill.

If you're crazy, it doesn't matter what your name is.

If 22 year olds are cougars, then you'd better stock up on Viagra, grandpa.

I admire a man who follows his dream.

Don't you have FMLA? Bipolar disorder is covered.

Actually, I am. We're even cordial these days. However, we haven't lived within 100 miles of each other since 2001. It's just that we're both too lazy and cheap to get a divorce. @midnight nice to meet you, disco's hubby!😀

Call the shrink, now. In the future, fuck your mother. Acute psychosis is a psychiatric emergency.

Women can be pedophiles, too. Sexist.

"And all our yesterdays have but lighted fools..."

Yeah, yeah, so I'm easy...

I don't know - you ought to maybe speak to his supervisor, especially if it upset you that much. I think that @Athena 92 may be right, and if it's not a HIPAA violation, it's teetering right on the brink of being one.

Hey! I live in West Bumfuck. It's a nice place.

Oh, I'm so sorry - that really sucks. And I know - sometimes the family was worse than the patient. Does his ins cover respite care? Just something to think about when you get to the point where it's him or you.

Put a stool in the shower and have him take a seat under the water. At least he'll get rinsed, and if he uses soap, it'll be a bonus. (seriously, a lot of old people are scared of falling in the shower or tub.)

The rule of thumb is that if one of one's parents has it, one is 25% more likely than the average to get it. If both of one's parents have it, then one is 50% more likely to develop it. If one's identical twin develops it, then one is fucked, since the probability is 80% higher than that of the general population.

Yes, it did. That was back when I was in high school, and, despite the thousands of patients that I've taken care of since then, I've never had anybody else with phantom itching.

When I worked in the nursing home, I had a guy ask me to scratch his foot. The catch? He was a bilateral amputee. So I had to scratch the air right about where his foot would have been. Not as odd as your encounter, but still, I've never seen anything in the literature about phantom itching.

Is there actually a test for it available? Most of what I can find in the literature is experimental. The genetic testing seems so far to be more accurate for determining med regimens once one has been diagnosed rather than providing the actual diagnosis, let alone diagnosing it in someone who's asymptomatic.

How about spotted dick?

I'd rather see pictures of the Jersey Devil.

I thought it was a matter of instinct, not education.

It's kind of hard to take much more than an overnight bag on a Greyhound.