>Although I am far from qualified to answer your
> question (wherefore art though, Wolfspirit?)I'd
> guess that you don't feel food "dropping" into
> your stomach because the nerves in your
> stomach aren't the kind that report "touch"
> sensations to the brain. I think this is a good
> thing, because it'd feel really weird if they did.

You're quite right of course. Thank you for your
considered reply. Now why didn't I think of that?

I'd never really focussed on my own body apart
from the usual day to day stuff but got to
talking about health and food issues with friends
around the time my closest buddy died recently
of lung cancer. Apparently a ten-year layoff
from smoking wasn't long enough. According to
medical reports on the web, you need a break of
fifteen years before your risks come down to that
of non-smokers.

When his sister (a psychiatric nurse now living
in the UK) visited, she reported that a new route
of transmission of HIV/AIDS could come from
airborne viruses whenever a patient coughed. This
is really news to me.

I don't want to seem alarmist but does anyone have
any thoughts about this development?