differences, philosophically speaking

[Guest guest]

You know, there must be SOME way to predict who will be a good loser

and who will not; who will have lactose intolerance and who will not;

who will need lots of additional supplements and who will not; who

will have stinky, loose, and irregularly-timed BMs and who will not.

I will not, cannot, believe that these are just random occurances.

Nobody knows how your body will react until it happens? Science does

not work like that (for the most part; please no comments about chaos

theory!!). I bet that if some researcher or another interested in

this surgery were to painstakingly document every pre-op and post-op

kind of occurance, we could come up with some good information that

might half-way predict who would be in for what. Especially if that

person studied such aware and well-spoken individuals like the ones

on this list.

What do you think?????????

Do any of you have any of these minor problems/inconvenient side

effects that you IMAGINE might be tied to something that you know

about yourself or a pre-op condition????????????

For instance: " Yes, . I was a little on the low side of the

scale when it came to iron levels pre-operatively. I think that

might be why I have such trouble now and have to take this especially

disgusting iron capsule. Come to think of it, all the other D/Sers I

know with iron problems were just like me pre-op . . . "

For my part, I have made a deal with my body that it is not

allowed " to pull any shit " after surgery: I will lose quickly; I

will drink plenty of milk with " tolerance " ; I will do exceptionally

well with a regular multi-vitamin; my poo won't stink or want to come

out during times not pre-authorized, and it must have a " regular " and

firm consistency. I've told this body of mine that if it gets any

ideas about acting to the contrary, I will punish it by " pulling

some " medieval-hairshirt-beatings-in-the-closet kind of thing. Who

remembers Hawthorne? ;}

Love to all,