Me, Fard, well I never! I am still reeling from the bad news I read today about my wrinkle cream. I mean, really folks, when you get older your skin does funny things. If you are a skinny little thing (like I used to be) you wrinkle up like a bowl of prunes. I noticed that the fuller figured gals didn't seem to have that pruny look so I tried to gain weight. I ate everything in sight for several months and IT WORKED. My pruny face had plumped up, all that fat had smoothed out those wrinkles but now my face was,well what it was, was FAT. There was no getting around it, I had not only plumped up my face but somewhere along the way my thighs had joined the club right along with my derriere. One night I got to thinking about what I could do about my wrinkles (If I ever had occasion to be skinny again, mind you)and I had a flash of genius. If Preporation H would shrink hemorrhoids, why wouldn't they shrink wrinkles? Knowing that sooner or later i'd be back on a diet and I would be losing all the fat my wrinkles had sucked up over the past few months, I started stocking up on P-H. I had just finished buying enough P-H to shrink a Hemorrhoid the size of a football field, when I read just today, a warning about Using P-H on your face. Now i'm stuck with more P-H than you'll ever see in your life time and I don't even have Hemorrhoids. I wonder if it would qualify as a stocking stuffer? ;0)

Some years ago when I was about 50 I had blood on tissue, not a lot but daily. I stopped drinking sodas & it stopped. Yrs later I thought the Pepsi smelled so good,at a party, so I poured about an inch in a glass & drank it. Same aching, cement bags around my waist feeling & blood on tissue. So I discovered once damaged it does not heal or whatever. So then I found out my Bro. had every test in the book & dr. could not find out what was wrong. I called him & asked him what was going on. He said blood in urine. I told him, cut out sodas, I mean all of them, no chocolate Hanson's, Coke, Pepsi, orange, 7-Up etc. It all has same effect- causes you to bleed. The acid is sodas is also what damages bones. So bro & I have been free from blood in urine for several yrs now. So if you get checked out & they can't find anything like bro's Dr. did, could be what you are drinking! We did an experiment in college taking rusty nails & putting them in Coke, cleaned them up really nice. You can imagine what it does to your guts! It is hard to give up tho but if you get scared enough you can do it. Plus that pain is not fun.

I suffered from hemmroids for many years. I had the laser treatment and it made them a million times worse. I also had the surgery. The pain I had afterwards for 10 days was excruciating. Going to the washroom was really a treat. Soon after the surgery the hemmroids returned. I was crying to my doctor, I thought they couldn't come back. He told me to cut out ALL popcorn, nuts, seeds and corn. I used to eat a lot of popcorn. I didn't think it would matter but I tried it anyway. After that the hemmroids were gone! The only time they return is if I eat a handful of nuts. The best treatment is a good diet and long soaks in the tub. I'm sorry to scare you about the surgury but that was my experience. Donna

I am retired in Florida - I've never met any of these funny elderly folks - I need to socialize more! LOL