Any Sexual New Year's Resolutions for 2026? Post them here:

Maybe we'll add yours to our own lists....

 

For me it’ll be focusing on Living (vacations), Loving (deeper relationships), Laughing (entertainment)!

but since you posted this in the Love and SEX section….then, more SEX!

Already having some great times accomplishing 2025 sex goals, and I’m sure more great times will come in 2026!

 

I would like more sex of course, but also maybe travel a little more.

 

to come thru radiation therapy cancer free.. to finally be rid is a foot injury (after 2.5 years) and get green light to walk & workout/swim.. to write my memoirs for extended family and document genealogy for them.. to create more art, resume vegetable gardening, trout fishing, yard work..

to ease my wife of 49 years' burden of caring for everything and everyone..

 

Sending good vibes for all your
Resolutions, Mountain Seed ~~~

 

You’ve inspired us all. Thank you!

 

Yes indeed!!@mountain_seed

 

thank you!

 

thank you!!

 

thank you!!!

 

Yes, indeed - I know about this one all too well; I'm still dealing with stuff left over after radiation and chemo...

 

You're always so strong & positive, KD

 

Thanks - I try my best to be, but chemo and radiation will beat the shit out of you.

 

for me, the hardest part is the uncertainty that those who will 'get things in order' so I can start the 5-9 week daily regimen will - in fact - not drop the ball..

for 1.5 years, every time I've contacted urologist it's been 4 weeks to get an appt.. 3 more weeks before an open 45 min for biopsy and another 3 weeks to discuss results..
10 effing weeks..

I self-advocate and need confirmation the facility opened by three Harvard radiologsts & oncologists are aware that this show needs to start no later than mid-March (generally end of heavy snow season).. it's a 130 mi RT so I'll stay down there 3 nights weekly.. urologist has to get me scheduled a few days early to implant protections/markers.. I just hate being out of the loop..

I'll call tomorrow with concerns and try to get a timeline..

as for you, my friend..
hang in there.. it'll get better..
and thank you!

maybe we'll have scar tales to share like the crew of The ORCA..
after all, on a 1971 flight from Guam to Vietnam via Yakota AFB, Japan, the Boeing 720-B I was on lost two engines after we passed Tinian Island.. pilot joked we were returning "to get a complete aircraft"

I often think of Quint and his story of USS INDIANAPOLIS

 

thank you!

 

I've got two scars: One from where they had to trach me and the other where the feeding tube was placed. I had a 10-mile RT to the cancer center and seven weeks of chemo and radiation, and I had to go every day. The guys I felt sorry for were the guys who were being zapped for prostate cancer... and they weren't allowed to pee. This one guy is doing "the dance" and tells the nurse that he doesn't think he can hold it and she says, "Well, you're gonna have to hold it and I know it sucks..."

And I thought having my head trapped in a mask and locked down on the table was bad...

 

Damn!
I read that BMs were frequent & sudden-onset, but peeing was problematic; though the urge was constant..

so oncologist said Flowmax is Rx'd starting day-1 (which caused my sinuses to swell shut 7 years ago when an Oregon urologist told me to "take these" after a biopsy was ordered after T-therapy caused PSA to jump from 220-542 in just two weeks!).. biopsy showed no cancer; only a kiwi fruit-sized prostate I've had since my twenties (lotsa exercise)

damn stuffed sinuses led to using phenylephrine which led to rebound which is somewhat still a problem..

your endurance of tracheal/esophageal appliances indicates you suffered worse than I can imagine.

aren't those lockdown masks fun?
I'm one of the few who get to say "I had 'macular holes'!!"

I stopped reading and drawing/painting and target practice due to clouds of 'floaters in my eyes that tore holes in maculae when vitreous dried out.. the surgeries require absolute immobility of head as they first drain eye while under sedation the wake you as they put appliances into eye.. actually rather interesting to see/hear metal clanking around up close and personal..

then the gas bubble to hold repaired tissue in place while face down for a few days..

but no more floaters! doctor says I can start shooting again!

but reading/art?
maybe if they kill the cancer and restart T-therapy.. otherwise, not much sustained interest in anything..

 

Blessings for everyone to have good health and happiness this year

 

I'd like to know what 'BMs' are, please.

 

I believe he was referring to “bowel movement”