Reading your child a regular story as part of the routine of going to bed at night stimulates his curiosity and his understanding that books give pleasure. As a toddler he can sit on your knee and look at pictures as you read simple story books. If his interest in books has been stimulated, it will only be a matter of time before he will request favourite books or stories.

You can begin taking your child to the local library from an early age. Many libraries offer special programs for young children, such as regular daytime storytelling sessions in the children’s section of the library.

As your child gets older and begins to read, he can choose his own library books, can help choose a book to buy from the local bookshop. Being exposed to suitable books and listening to stories read to him can help him get off to a good start at school. Reading to a young child also creates some very special time for a parent- Is there anything more special than a child sitting on a parent’s knee, eyes wide with anticipation, as the pages are slowly turned and the story unfolds? Having i regular daily reading time also helps the child modulate his activity levels, so that in addition to energetic, vigorous, pursuits he also learns to sit quietly and concentrate.

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“Maybe you can, but I’m the one who will prove them wrong. I can handle this alone if I have to,” was the wife’s response. “I haven’t got time to play around. Every minute I waste is a minute I give to the disease. I ’11 feel like making love after I feel like I take care of this first.” She failed to understand that “taking care” of this disease depended in part on taking care of her marriage and sexuality at the same time. Heroes find themselves eventually alone, even in victory over the disease. They become victorious warriors with no one to share the victory.

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Shapiro and Shapiro examine the “super healthy” relationship in their article “Weil-Being and Relationship.” They point out that is is sometimes easier to love humanity in the collective, abstract sense than in a committed, interpersonal sense. They describe the super love I am suggesting as a relationship that “one cannot take credit for, but to which one must contribute to the utmost of one’s ability, which one marvels at and is privileged to be part of.” I hope Part One of this book has helped you get ready to take part in what the Shapiros have called “a type of miracle.”

This miracle is possible not through spontaneous, romanticized, intense, “hot” love, but through considered, realistic, steady, “warm” loving, a process of being one with someone else while still being “one” for yourself. By paying attention to what can happen to desexualize a marital relationship, understanding the rules of how systems grow and flourish, bonding and rebonding with your spouse, you are able to move beyond the eight love lies at the beginning of this chapter to a true loving allowing the merger of two love maps for a new and exciting journey to super marital sex.

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This particular infection seems to generate more anxiety than does gonorrhoea.

This may be because the symptoms are slow to develop and slow to clear and may recur despite treatment.

Sometimes this infection develops during a constant sexual relationship where there has been no outside sexual contact by either partner for several months or even years.

There are usually no symptoms in women but the sexual contacts of infected men may have evidence of vaginal or cervical infection and sometimes the Chlamydia or Mycoplasma organisms can be demonstrated.

Penicillin is ineffective but the tetracycline drugs will clear it. Recurrences are common, even without further exposure.

One complication of NGU seen more in men than women is Reiter’s disease.

This involves urethritis associated with conjunctivitis or iritis, which is inflammation of the deeper tissues of the eye, and arthritis or tendon inflammation. Reiter’s disease requires the use of the anti-inflammatory drugs used for the rheumatic disorders and may take months or years to clear.

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And doctors more than anyone are prone to think emotionally rather than rationally about it — because they are so intimately involved and it does make the doctor think of his own role in dealing with sickness and death.

When euthanasia is discussed it is assumed that the person carrying out the act will be the attending doctor. But is that fair?

If society decides that euthanasia is what it wants, who will be the executioner?

Most doctors would rebel about accepting that role, even if they approve of mercy killing in principle.

The doctor is trained and spends his whole life in trying to save lives and ease pain.

Doctors are not happy with death.

Unless the doctor develops a mature personality and a clear concept of his own fallibility and mortality, he may deny and reject death, both for himself and his patients.

Death becomes the enemy to be avoided at all costs. But it is the ultimate fate of us all.

It needs considerable maturity for any of us to accept death.

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Central nervous system symptoms can also result from cancer deposits pressing on a part of the central nervous system from the outside.

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The incubation period is around two weeks and it is common in the spring and autumn. The infection starts as a heavy cold with a marked cough, and this runs its course over a week or so by which times the temperature usually subsides. The characteristic cough associated with a whoop then develops. A paroxysm of coughing occurs and the lungs are almost emptied by short, sharp coughing.

The tongue may protrude and the child may go blue. Then the spasm in the larynx, or voice box, relaxes and the air is drawn into the lungs with a crowing sound which produces the typical “whoop”. Vomiting frequently follows this paroxysm.

The correct diagnosis is often not made until the whooping stage is reached.

In most children who have been immunised, a modified form of the disease may produce a persistent cough, even if not a severe illness.

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