I miss Dan.

I really don’t know how to respond to this thread. It was never my intention to cause anything like this. I didn’t return to the site for awhile because I felt it would make others uncomfortable. I didn’t want anyone to give up IHD because of me and especially anyone who had been around longer and needed it more than I. I really have never purposely hurt anyone’s feelings and felt that, since I seem to do that, it would be best for me to be absent.

Having said that, I am feeling good beyond words for many of the comments that you have made here and I even appreciate those two or three comments that were less than complimentary. So many of you I just absolutely love to death. I’m told that you can never know anyone from online, but I feel like I know you. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for the nice things you said. Now, I really want to meet you.

Unfortunately when I write, I express my self in the same way I talk. Usually, I don’t mean to be rude. Subjects referenced here usually fall into three categories for me.

1. There are those that I am passionate about (like people criticizing depression and criticizing people who don’t choose to donate kidneys). Fortunately the people with whom I had those discussions were people I highly respected for other things. Therefore I didn’t feel it awkward to disagree on just one subject.

2. There are categories where I’m not too concerned but would like a debate of some sort for either fun or enlightenment. I don’t feel you can debate issues for which you have already made up your mind. My comments on those issues (politics, God) are rarely sarcastic but more often they are just plain silly. I believe in god, but if I told you what I believe no one, especially atheist or Christians, would want to hear it. I believe that Obama is neither the savior of the world nor is he the antichrist. Actually, I believe he is a really good politician. Form vs. content is always interesting too.

3. Sex, however, is simply FUNNY. If there is a god the creator, then he created sex just so man would not take himself too seriously. I mean its funny in every way. Think about it! I know nothing about it other than that. Is sex different after you start dialysis? Not in my case. It has been exactly the same, especially in quantity and quality, since I passed sixty years of age. There’s a line from the operetta Porgy and Bess that goes “Methusla lived 900 years….but who calls that living when no gal will give in to no man what’s 900 years." That’s funny too.

In conclusion, I meant no disrespect for any of my comments. For those people I have offended, either knowingly or unknowingly, I offer my apology. I will return to this site primarily because of you guys who’ve written such nice things here, but I’ll be very, very careful about posting. You say I’m funny. I don’t tell jokes. I think you like when I comment on the obvious. I won’t be as funny now… well, maybe in the chat room. And Twirl is right about e-mails, etc.