>Sure, I wouldn't make fun of someone else's malady unless they were already doing it. He figured he might as well laugh about it, and we were all crazy about him anyway. Hated it when he and his family moved to Atlanta.

Yeah, I've always been good about that kind of stuff. It seems to put people more at ease if they see that I can joke about it. Between the flashes of pure, intense pain, that is. I even scare myself a little bit every morning looking in the mirror though. Well, at least more than normal anyway. <g>