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Where do you get this stuff?  This one was absolutely *hilarious*! Thanks for the laugh~ ~Kimberlee – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman’s face was > severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn’t graft > any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband > offered to donate some of his own skin. However, the only skin on his > body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his > buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one > where > the skin came from, and requested the doctor also honour their secret. > After all, this was a very delicate matter. After the surgery was > completed, everyone was astounded at the woman’s new beauty. She > looked > more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives > just went on and on about her youthful beauty! One day, she was alone > with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice. > She said, "Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for > me. > There is no way I could repay you." "My darling," he replied, "think > nothing, of it. I get all the thanks I need every time I see your > mother > kiss you on the cheek."

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A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman’s face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband offered to donate some of his own skin. However, the only skin on his body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one where the skin came from, and requested the doctor also honour their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter. After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the woman’s new beauty. She looked more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives just went on and on about her youthful beauty! One day, she was alone with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice. She said, "Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. There is no way I could repay you." "My darling," he replied, "think nothing, of it. I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek." – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >When Depression Turns Deadly: >Can Antidepressants Transform Despair into Suicide? >ANNE McILROY >THE GLOBE AND MAIL >Saturday, April 21, 2001 >www.globeandmail.com >When Matt Miller’s family moved to a bigger house in a new >neighbourhood in Kansas City, Mo., the athletic 13-year-old with thick >blond hair found that he couldn’t penetrate the cliques at his new >school. He was a nobody, an outsider. >"He was angry at us, he was angry at the school, his grades suffered. >He wasn’t himself," said his father, Mark Miller. >The boy’s teachers recommended that he see a psychiatrist, who >prescribed Zoloft, an antidepressant in the same chemical family as >Prozac. The doctor said it would help Matt’s mood, make him feel >better about himself. The boy started taking the pills and seemed to >be in good spirits for a few days. >But then he began showing signs of intense nervousness and agitation. >He couldn’t sit still, his father remembers. He kept kicking people >under the table. His eyes were sunken and he couldn’t sleep, yet he >had a restless energy. >After six days on the drug, on July 28, 1997, Matt hanged himself in >his bedroom closet. >"Suicide always takes you by surprise, but no one could have imagined >that Matt would have done that," Miller said in an interview. "There >was no previous attempt, no serious threat of it, no note, no >premeditation. "It was a very impulsive act I am convinced was brought >about by the stimulant nature of the drug." >Miller has launched a lawsuit against Pfizer Inc., which makes Zoloft. >He is one of about 200 people who have sued — so far unsuccessfully >– the makers of Prozac and similar products. The plaintiffs contend >that the drugs, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, >caused their loved ones to kill themselves and, in some cases, hurt or >kill others as well. One of the few cases to go to trial so far was >that of William Forsyth, a 63-year-old wealthy Hawaii businessman who >stabbed to death his wife of 37 years and then killed himself in 1993. >At the time, he had been taking Prozac for 11 days for panic attacks. >In 1999, a jury in the civil lawsuit cleared Prozac of liability in >the deaths. Forsyth’s adult children began another suit last year >accusing Eli Lilly and Co., the maker of the drug, of covering up >damaging details about the antidepressant. >Chief among the scientific experts who have given people, including >Miller and Forsyth’s children, reason to believe that a link may exist >between antidepressants and suicide is Dr. David Healy, whom Miller >has engaged as an expert witness in his suit. >Healy is a well-known British psychiatrist who argues that Prozac and >similar drugs may trigger suicide in some patients, and that there >should be warning labels on the products. >To Miller, Healy is a hero, a crusading scientist with the guts and >credibility to challenge the powerful, multinational drug companies in >an era in which many researchers and institutions depend on them for >funding. But discussing the down side of Prozac does not appear to >have been a good career move. Healy’s blunt expression of his views >may have cost him a job at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, >a teaching hospital associated with the University of Toronto. The >centre had been recruiting him for months, but last year rescinded his >written job offer after he gave a speech warning that Prozac may >trigger suicide in some patients. >Eli Lilly Canada Inc. is a major corporate donor to the centre, but >university and hospital officials say their decision had nothing to do >with wanting to please the drug company or to avoid damaging future >fundraising efforts. They say their reasons are confidential. >Healy says the only explanation he was offered was that his lecture >"solidified" the view that he was not a good fit. >For Eli Lilly’s part, it points out that a U.S. Food and Drug >Administration >panel of experts voted six to three against requiring Prozac to carry >a >suicide-risk warning label. In September of 1991, the FDA concluded >that >there was no credible evidence of a causal link between the use of >antidepressant drugs, including Prozac, and suicides or violent >behaviour. >And a paper published in March of 1991 by Jerrold Rosenbaum of >Massachusetts >General Hospital found that patients on Prozac were not prone to >suicide any >more than patients on other medication. >Eli Lilly said, in a written response to questions from The Globe and >Mail: >"There is, to the contrary, published scientific evidence showing that >Prozac and medicines like it actually protect against such behaviour

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