Well, "without pain" may be a little strong. I don't think I even began to understand your rage vis-a-vis the female body until you wrote that recent summary posting and I realized just *how* long it had been *that* bad.

I whinge about my knees, and asthma can be deadly very quickly, but for the most part I'm grateful that I can manage better living through chemistry and really don't have to ponder better living through surgery, yanno?