[Devil_Anse]

Her face looks puffy to me, too, Jackie.

I have seen that puffiness before in people I knew who had serious addictions to drugs (sometimes legally prescribed), or alcohol.

Just my opinion. I am not saying that's why her face looks puffy. I am saying that I think that's a definite possibility--in my opinion!

[Jackie-O]

Well the way she rants on you would think she is in some serious need of medication...if she is on something, it's obvious that she either needs her dose kicked up and or try another med.

[Devil_Anse]

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:M3smtbYXDN4J:cass.eahosting.com/perseus/sanity25.htm+%22The+Mask+of+Sanity%22+Hervey+Cleckley&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Hope this link works. It is an excerpt of a couple of Dr. Hervey Cleckley's case histories of psychopaths he knew.

Cleckley wrote his book "The Mask of Sanity" in the 1930's or 40's. B/C of this, there may be some parts of it that do not meet today's political correctness standards. Cleckley's practice was in the south, where as we all know, Baptists are quite prominent, and drinking alcohol is and, especially back then, was considered a bad thing. (Yes, I know all the jokes about the hypocritical Baptists who supposedly go to the tavern on Sat. and then to church on Sun.; still, they have certain standards. Whether anyone follows his own standards is always a separate question. Not criticizing or praising Baptists here.)

Furthermore, in those days, physicians were held to a pretty high standard of off-work (leisure time) behavior, not to mention the standards they were expected to uphold while on the job. These case histories are about psychopaths who happened to be physicians.

One in particular describes some men holed up in a hotel room with some prostitutes. A prostitute ends up getting one of her nipples bitten off. When I read that, I found the parallels to a certain story about a certain well-known politician to be QUITE chilling!!!

[fiesti]

the puffiness in jackies face could be from prednisone which chronic lungers are usually on

[annyokie]

Prebnisone (sp?) makes you puffy.