thanks elizabeth for that link!! i've read through a few (still working nights), they were so moving. it's interesting to read accounts of sex through the eyes of someone who may have different limitations.

i think the concept of physical/emotional limitations is a universal feeling, we all feel imperfect in some way so the stories really strike a chord for me.

being a nurse, i will also being looking at my patients differently. for instance we had a young (30's) woman last year who had guillian-barre syndrome. she was as near to death as a human can be, but survived. surely at 33, with a husband and two small children, her sex life is not over. how does this man who has seen his wife so critically ill ever feel comfortable initiating sex??

i hope they are able to relearn what sexual intimacy is.