kbordson

Is confused... she would never throw someone off, cuz she likes it on top.

Is good at noticing the obvious... must be the goggles

Is standing there dumbstruck while the blood spurts out Monty Python style.... do something man!!!

Is getting frustrated by the PW's.

On call delivering babies from midnight to 8, seeing patients in clinic from 8-10.... then getting on a plane and flying to PERU for a medical mission!!!!! (I hope you can't see me jumping up and down... I have an image of decorum to protect.) Karen

Has ceased to be amazed. (but not amazed to be siezed?)

Has a smile that makes you think that some one needs to defend his honor.... a very nice smile!

Has a nickname of "loser" (although no clue why?) edit: WOOO HOOOO!!!!! I got one right finally!!!!

Is easily impressed..... edit.... damn!!! I'm way too slow for this!

Did not post about the person that posted above her last post ...... (and I was too slow to get it right too....)

I'm not saying that I'll be jumping a 97 whatever without a cypres in 45 mph winds with gusts and swooping my landing. But if I feel that the weather is within my capabilities, and I'm feeling healthy, awake and desiring to jump.... I would jump. If you told me that I would get Hepatitis C from doing a c-section... and it was something that was indicated, I was the only doctor, I used all the precautions that I typically do.... I would cut. If you said that a whale would suddenly materialize and fall out of the sky to land on me if I turned right instead of left and I needed to go right to get to the park.... not being difficult, but I would do what I needed to do in life to make mine meaningful. I just refuse to hide in the basement with padded corners to escape from the inevitable. I have lived a KICK ASS 34 years and hope for just as many.... but I don't want those to be at the cost of truly living. but anyway... just my opinion...... But, enough about me - anyone else wanna either back me up or tell their reasons on why "yes" or "no"? Karen

Then why would you still jump if you new the next jump you did would kill you? it just doens't make sense! Would it be better if everyone in the world just smiled and nodded and agreed with your opinions? That's not life. You don't have to believe other peoples beliefs to acknowledge that their entitled to them. I tell pregnant women not to use cocaine because of the effects to them, their babies, and risks of placental abruption.... some of them still use - not my place to judge the "sense" of it. I don't see it, but it's their life. I make post for women not to jump past the first trimester... some of them don't - their choice and decisions. A Jehovah witness bleeding out... doesn't want the blood. Her choice based on her religion. Just accept that people have different goals, beliefs, and views on life and death. But... you know that you are influencing the results of this study and biasing the responses by your statements..... Who else would be snotty or snide enough to stand up? Karen

You don't have to. It's not that I have a death wish, nor do I want to even "tempt the fates"... I just want to live as fully and completely as possible for as long as I can. Do I want to die at 34? HELL NO! Do I want to live to 80's in a nursing home after a stroke? Just as emphatic, HELL NO! I live as if I'm going to be healthy untiil I'm in my 90's or 100's, but don't fear decisions that might shorten it. I eat well and stay in shape so that I don't develop diabetes like both of my parents and my sisters have. I drive fast, but not reckless. I get the annual exams needed to ensure that I'm as healthy as I can be.... but I'm still leaving for Peru on Thursday on a medical mission, I still will skydive, I still will trust humanity by picking up hitchhikers or helping those with their cars broke down on the highway.... I fully realize that I could die doing any one of those. But life is about knowing the risks and weighing them against the benefits.... I tell patients "you do this treatment, you have this survival rate... you don't do it, you have that survival rate...." It's their choice, not mine. They have to weigh the risks/benefits. Everyone has different beliefs and values.... if we were arguing about those, this would be bumped to SC... so lets just keep it as a poll of thoughts and perceptions... not a judgemental type thread.

I still would probably stand by my answer. I would make the jump. And no, I'm not lying, I'm not trying to be a braggard, I'm not casual about my thoughts. Dying while skydiving... you still don't know - is it a heart attack that would have happened whether you were in the air or not, an arotic rupture that had you not been jumping you could theorize you might have been rushed to the hospital to be "saved" but on a vent now for the duration because of the hypoxia that occured when transporting you, or a double mal that you tried valiantly to fight but wasn't able to clear it. If it's your "time," that's it. I would still fight, just in case. And for the sake of patients, I encourage them to have hope and reach for the future. But death is no respector.... I can plan, dream and imagine, but I WILL die and just not jumping will not make me immortal. Until that time, I will live. In living, I will learn, experience, feel, touch, dream, and do anything possible to fully experience my time here. But.... that's just my thought process... you can ridicule or demean if it's not in line with your beliefs, or you can just accept that each person acknowledges death in different ways. Karen

Interesting point of view - even though we know it's incorrect. Funny how since the advent of modern medicine, we all die later than we used to. Do you think that if GWB fired the secret service - everyone who shot at him would suddenly miss? If everyone stopped using airbags, seatbelts, helmets, AAD's that the road and skydiving death tolls would not climb? If troops were poorly trained or not trained at all the same number would die in combat against a trained enemy? The "when it's your time, it's your time" theory is foolishly comforting. It means we never have to change our lifestyle. In truth, we should be aware of what we eat and how much we exercise - or we risk cardiac arrest. We should have protected sex or stick with one HIV neg monogamous partner, we should practice our reserve drills, be ready for aircraft emergencies and fly disiplined traffic paterns. But sadly, many of us don't because "that's how we're SUPPOSED to die. There are no accidents" The only fate is the fate we make for ourselves. If destiny then hands us a curve ball - well, that's life. Everything else is Darwin. t Good points... and I see the logic of those statements (especially having seen those that would it not be for modern medicine would be gone) but I still believe that the time we have here is set... there is a "time for death"...., the life we live while here is what we make. Maybe thats just how I deal with seeing those pass, both personally and professionally... or maybe thats just more my current belief set on life, death and immortality.... but I still feel that I would probably continue jumping and living the life as full as possible.... because if I didn't die from skydiving, then what? my genes would indicate that it may be complications from diabetes... so a stroke with years in the nursing home/rehab? heart attack and hypertensive crisis? or would it be something like ovarian cancer? or just random? car accident? or falling down steps? I will die.... but I want to live.

It's hard to say for certain, but I would have to say that I would keep jumping. The way I see life, is that we all have a time to learn what it is we are supposed to experience on this journey and the time is going to come when it ends. I honestly feel that we die when we are supposed to... not that it's completely pre-ordained, but that each person has their time on this Earth. The when is set, the how and where is not. So cancer, MI, car accident, skydiving, fire.... even if the number of pages are set, the final chapter is yet to be written. Anyway, that's just my thought on that. Karen

And it was the first time ever that you didn't do anything wrong, so someone called you on it!!

That can be a VERY nice show, especially if I have to bend over to pick up my clothes.... [wicked]

Been way too busy working... but soon I'll be even more about what men want - Gone! out of the way/hair (remember, you don't pay a hooker for the sex - ya pay her to leave)... and I will be in PERU on Thursday night!!!!!!! (so that means the wish to be alone, desire to contemplate on his bellybutton and/or go shooting any time he would want will be met. And he gets a whole 10 days of not having to cuddle, or answer annoying questions like "has today brought peace and sunshine into your life?" See how lucky he is!)

Nephews are SO GREAT!!! I just love my young sir!!!! He's the bestest nephew (and yours -menaing who ever is reading this) is a close second! I just wish I could see him more.

nothing wrong with details, details are good.....we just wanna know what you want, how you want it and where to bring the beer... (see, I can play the good little girl.... ) - unless a different role is necessary.... -thank you!!

A friend of my once got a temporary suspended from that activity by her significant other for unauthorized use of teeth... (and I can't believe that she loves to tell that story... how wrong is that?!) So you might want to be more specific than just "blow job" as what you would want....

Ummm... (didn't work on making any, but I did deliver 5 babies this weekend - including a set of twins!): 1 (excellent wonderful chance to throw myself out of a perfectly good aircraft!!!!!!!!): 0 (but, doesn't mean that I wouldn't accept any tonight.) Karen

LOL, no. You can never ask what women want, you have to guess. No... you can try to guess. But the answer is much more simple than you would believe. I want him to breathe, just a simple inhale and exhale, to relax, to laugh, to have hope, to initiate, to follow, to open up, to experiment, to risk failure, to fantasize about me/about life/about adventure, to expand horizons, to hold me, to love me, to kiss me so that the world disappears (I liked that description), to f*@& me, to act like you mean it, to mean it. Basically... what I would want is for him to be enlivened and know that you get this opportunity to take this chance .... so that in the end, when all is done, we're sitting around the final campfire telling the BEST story. ok... and a pulsating shower nozzle.......

OK... just got back from seeing Hitch with a friend. Honestly, is it so hard to date a girl that a guy would think that they need a "date doctor"? Is it that our expectations are too "high" or that guys just don't understand the "dating etiqutte"? What is the real story there. The men want "dates" but then need coaching to be "real"? Hmm... doesn't sound right. AND, just adds more confusion to the "what guys want" edit to add: ok... maybe shouldn't get advice on men from a comedy (or from any movie from the Lifetime network - from what I've heard on previous threads) further edited to add: I am NOT a princess!