hot flashes? Have you ever had one of those "cool pillows" you get for about 20 bucks-they work pretty well. Oh-and do you have a mister? They are good if they are a very very fine spray. And have you ever seen one of those flexible ice packs? Made of little 1" pillows so that the whole square can then be folded or wrapped around a liter bottle? Well, they feel pretty good fresh out of the freezer. Of course, you can always put a bag of frozen corn or peas in your pillow, but that is kind of wasteful...and there are all of those little kids in China...

now for full moon stories-working in the ER is a real trip on full moon nights-always brought out the "interesting" cases, like the man with a cartridge ink pen in his urethra-or the guy with it stuck in a pop bottle-that one made the mistake of telling his wife he had been mugged, so she showed up at the hospital demanding they call the cops so a full report could be made-everyone was trying so hard to tiptoe around that case...