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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lemme Caution, post: 2906578, member: 90575&quot;]As it is so memorable stated in the novel &quot;Dune&quot; by Frank Herbert, &quot;Fear is the mind killer.&quot; Fear is a paralytic, and a useless and possibly even dangerous one at, ranking up there with and possibly even exceeding worry and self-pity. Three days after my heart attack I passed a kidney stone, and that taught me the true meaning of relativity; if the coronary was painful, this was approaching beyond-tolerable...two percocets, a morphine injection and a long morphine drip later I was able pass the stone. Then again, temporarily losing my then-two-year-old son for almost an hour in a crowd of thousands at a massive Boston expo in the 70&#039;s and being absolutely sure I would never see him again was incomparably more devastatingly more painful than the kidney stone event. Come to think of it, I don&#039;t know if this is a workable &quot;philosophy&quot; as to its employment as any kind of rational consolation, but in my humble experience there does indeed always seem to be yet another higher level on the disaster meter, so why not just relax and accept things as they come. As my dear brilliant wife always reminds me when I grouse about getting old, &quot;Consider the alternative.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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