Regarding the I.C. -- I think human females should have the same privilege as canine females, that is, easy and legal access to being spayed on demand *g* One should not have to suffer as I did for a couple of years with "female problems" before being permitted to have surgery. Also? That forgetting stuff thing? Statistically, as we age, we don't forget more stuff, we just notice it more because we're told over and over that it's bad to forget things and a sign of I.O.* if we do, so we panic over forgetting the same sorts of things we forgot as kids and didn't care a whit about.

*Impending Old-Timers disease

Huh. My doctor won't even medicate me. Apparently my "problems" are nonexistent, compared to what they might be.

Of course, I do acknowledge that, me being me, a lot of what I'll be blaming on I.C. over the next year ro so will just be...me. Being me.