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- From: tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Circum.: When Parents Disagree : -(
- Message-ID: <TIGGER.93Jan23132729@satyr.Sylvan.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:27:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.000010.1844@netcom.com> <C0t8C2.GM2@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Sender: tigger@satyr.UUCP (Grace Sylvan)
- Organization: Sylvan Associates
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- In article <daved.727549221@convex.convex.com> daved@convex.com (David Dorfman) writes:
-
- I assume you will not have your son's wisdom teeth removed if they become
- impacted?
-
- Sorry, but I just couldn't let this go. So, I suppose I should have
- his wisdom teeth buds extracted two days after birth just in case his
- wisdom teeth might become implacted later. And his gall bladder, and
- his tonsils and his appendix. That is the logic you are using. Do you
- know the statistics of mishaps (infections, too much cut off, etc)
- from the procedure vs. the amount of circumcisions medically necessary
- for those uncircumcised at birth?
-
- A friend of mine has worked on a sex information hotline. They get all
- kinds of calls, including from men who have had their penis's cut off
- because of a slip, don't have a head at all on their penis, have scar
- tissue all over their penis, and so on. It looks like a neat simple
- medical procedure, but like with any other procedure, things can go
- wrong. Needless to say this has greatly affected those men's ability
- to function sexually as adults.
-
- My husband was circumcised - and didn't have any complications, but
- our son is intact. If the unlikely statistic falls our way and he
- requires the medical procedure of circumcision, then it will be done,
- with appropriate pain medication.
-
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- Tigger (Grace Sylvan) Mom of Katherine Yelena, 8/8/89,
- tigger@satyr.sylvan.com Corey 1/31/91; we loved him so,
- Robin Gregory born 2/28/92
-
- "It seems to me that our large goal is to find the ways to help our
- children become humane and strong."
-
- - Dr Haim Ginott quoted by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
-