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The Cape or Southern Eland
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The name 'eland' is the Dutch word for the elk. The eland was originally named Antilope oryx by Pallas in 1766, based on a specimen from near Cape Town. It was renamed Taurotragus oryx by Wagner in 1855. Some scientists regard it as a member of the genus Tragelaphus, based on some genetic similarities and because the eland and greater kudu hybridise. Others regard Tragelaphus and Taurotragus as paraphyletic genera which separated at last 1 000 years ago. Paraphyletic genera have a common ancestor and retain some genetic similarities but they do not include all the descendants of the common ancestor.
The Cape eland Taurotragus oryx oryx is one of three living subspecies. The other two are Livingstone's eland, which occurs north of the Cape eland, and Patterson's eland, which occurs in north-east Africa. The name Taurotragus is derived from the Greek and Latin words taurus for a bull and the Greek words tragos (a male goat) and elaphos (a deer). This perpetuates the myth that the eland is a relative of the elk. The scientific name means that the eland is a bull-like goat that is related to an oryx (the latter also wrong). The earliest ancestral eland Taurotragus arkelli lived a million years or so ago in Tanzania. The southern eland is depicted on the coat of arms of Namibia.
The eland is the largest of the African antelopes. An adult Cape eland bull has a shoulder height of some 1,7 m and weighs up to 940 kg as opposed to 1,5 m and 460 kg in a cow. The eland of KwaZulu-Natal are smaller than those more north but they are all a dull fawn, have no white stripes and have a characteristic dark brown mark on the back of the forelegs just above the knees. Old bulls become bluish or grey through the loss of hair. A narrow band of dark brown hair runs along the back of the neck to near the base of the tail, which has a black tassel. There is a distinct dewlap on the throat and both sexes carry straight and spirally ridged horns with those of the bulls being heavier and thicker than those of the cows. Horn buds are visible at birth and the first spiral appears in the horns of a bull when it is 15 months old. The eland is an exception to the general rule that most browsing antelopes are relatively small. It is the slowest of all the African antelopes but can maintain a trot of 22 km/h indefinitely. Walking produces a characteristic clicking sound of which the origin is controversial but it seems to come from the knees.
The Cape eland occurs in South Africa, southern Botswana and northern Namibia, and historically occurred in the Southern Cape near Cape Town at Hout Bay and the Cape Peninsula, but not in western Namibia. It normally does not occur in areas with a mean annual rainfall of less than 200 mm.
The Cape eland is highly versatile in habitat choice and formerly occurred in the greater part of the Nama Karoo, the Succulent Karoo, the fynbos and the more arid grasslands and savannas of South Africa. It is prone to tick infestation when it is introduced to wetter bushveld regions. It can occur at high elevations and has the widest habitat tolerance of all the antelopes.
A minimum of 3 000 ha is usually required to allow it to meet its dietary needs. Overall the diet of the Cape eland consists of 50 per cent browse, 45 per cent grass and 5 per cent wild fruits, but with grass being eaten mainly in the wet season and browse in the dry season when it will also pick up fallen leaves. It will visit recently burned areas to feed on the sprouting green grasses and will settle for a while in one area to feed. It breaks branches with the horns to reach the upper leaves and feeds on twigs as thick as 75 mm in diameter. It drinks some 23 litres of water in 24 hours by day or night when it is available and prefers natural waterholes but is independent of surface water.
Population characteristics
The Cape eland is gregarious and usually occurs in small herds but can form aggregations of more than 700 animals with a strict linear dominance hierarchy. It has a unique social organisation and also forms nursery and bachelor herds. The large herds break up into small herds of four to ten animals of either sex and all age classes when autumn starts, occurring at low densities in the winter. Feeding mainly occurs in the early morning and night. For thermoregulation it rests in shade when it is hot but will remain in the sun when it is cold. The range size of a herd in the wet season can vary from 174 to 422 km2 but it reduces to 9 to 58 km2 in the dry season. Bulls use ranges that are 21 to 75 km2 in size but there is no territorial defence. The sex ratio in adults in the wild is 1.2 to 1.6 cows per bull and the natural population increase varies from 11 to 38 per cent (mean: 20 per cent) depending on habitat quality and the impact of predators. Longevity is up to 25 years but usually 18 years.
Both the cow and bull become sexually mature when they are 18 months old, but the bulls will only start to breed when they are 4 to 5 years old if there are dominant adult bulls in a herd because the latter do the mating. However, bulls will breed at an earlier age if there are no dominant bulls. Breeding occurs throughout the year and the calves are usually born from 04:00 to 08:00. The gestation period lasts 273 to 280 days; the cow eats the afterbirth and the reddish-brown calf weighs around 30 kg at birth. It can run around with its mother within three or four hours of birth. The cow has four inguinal mammae and only suckles her own calf. The milk contains 11 to 17 per cent butterfat, 6 per cent protein and 4 per cent carbohydrates. The calving rate may be up to 90 per cent and the calf weans when it becomes four months old and then joins a nursery herd. Cows older than 15 years may be infertile.
Management and utilisation
Attempts to domesticate the Cape eland have been largely unsuccessful. The calf survival rate in captivity is low and an eland ox grows at a rate of 0,5 kg per day as opposed to 1,5 kg per day in cattle. The eland produces infertile hybrids with the greater kudu. The sex ratio should be around 15 adult cows per bull. The Cape eland is better adapted than cattle to hot, semi-arid regions and can be used to complement but not replace cattle. It can jump fences of 2,5 m high and fences for eland require an electrified strand 1,2 m above the ground and 225 mm away from a wire fence.
Capture and transport
Chemical capture can be done with 10 to 14 mg of M-99 for an adult bull and 6 to 8 mg for a cow, both with 180 to 200 mg of azaperone. The antidote is 20 to 30 mg of M-5050 for a bull and 12 to 16 mg for a cow. Alternatively, 15 mg of A3080 can be used for a bull and 10 mg for a cow, both with 50 mg of azaperone. Short-term tranquillisation can be done with 20 to 30 mg of haloperidol and long-term tranquillisation with 100 to 150 mg of perphenazine enanthate. Transport four to five cows, young bulls or calves in a mass crate under tranquillisation with pipes on the horns of the older animals, and with 1,45 m2 of floor space per animal. Transport adult bulls under tranquillisation and with pipes on the horns in individual crates that are 2,3 m long x 800 mm wide and 1,85 m high.
Temporary captivity
Adult and young bulls should be kept individually in pens but cows and calves can be kept together. Put pipes on the horns of adults and use tranquillisers when the animals are restless or aggressive.
Stocking densities
A rough guide is 1.02 Large Animal Units per eland (0.98 eland per Large Animal Unit) but a more refined stocking rate is 2.02 Grazer Units per eland (0.50 eland per Grazing Unit) and 2.44 Browser Units per eland (0.41 eland per Browser Unit).
Meat and live sales
The meat of an eland is of high quality. The dressing percentage is 51 per cent and the slaughtered carcass of an adult will yield 235 to 464 kg of meat. The mean price at live wildlife auctions in 2012 was R5 473 and the record price is R205 000. At a mean weight of 460 kg per animal in a population the latest mean price equates to R11,90 per kg live weight.
Trophy hunting
To judge a trophy-sized horn in the field, estimate its length and add 23 cm for the spirals for a bull and 8 cm for a cow.
Rowland Ward: Minimum horn length: 35,000 inches (89,8 cm); longest: 46,750 inches (118,75 cm) collected by Charl Kemp in Namibia in 2011.
Safari Club International: Minimum horn points: 77; best: 110,125 points collected by Burl Selden in 1987.
South African Method: Minimum horn length: 32,000 inches (81,28 cm); longest: 42,500 inches (107,95 cm) collected by JC Kriek on Nuanetsi Ranch in Zimbabwe in 1998.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and sugar. In another bowl, combine butter, egg, and milk and mix well. Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and with a spatula, stir until just combined. Do not beat or over mix; it's okay if there are lumps in the batter. Gently fold the blueberries into the batter.
Spoon the batter into the muffin tray, filling each cup about 2/3 full. Bake for 10 minutes and remove from the oven. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with the granulated brown or white sugar and return the muffins to the oven to bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool for about 10 minutes in the pan before turning the muffins out.
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I have to agree with Rob. Living in Tampa, most parishes around here try to appeal to the Latino parishioner. The mass is not much different than the charismatic masses I attended in NJ where I have a bunch of friends who are into that movement. Personally, I think the human body needs a break every so often from noise and I don't think the mass is about US at all and the focus should be on what pleases God not how uplifted we feel…so I prefer incense and Gregorian chant. But unlike my husband, I don't think swaying and clapping to awful music and shouting Amen during the mass is a mortal sin.


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I picked this book up from recommendations saying that it would be a ""similar"" book to Peter F. Hamilton's sprawling space operas, which I adore. However, I guess I just wasn't in the mood for this book -- I found it tedious and frustrating, and just wasn't getting into the politics. Maybe the infodump at the beginning spoiled me, since I found myself skimming it quickly.
I do want to try this again when I'm more in the mood for it -- I saw a lot of promise in its pages, but they just weren't clicking with me when I was reading it. Quit about 40% of the way through.
Two hundred years from now, following catastrophic climate change and devastating wars, the remaining people of Earth have been united under a handful of super-states: the Pacific Community, the European Union, and Greater Brazil (encompassing most of the Americas). In the solar system, meanwhile, genetically altered human colonists called "Outers" have fled to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn after a war with Earth saw their colonies on Mars totally eliminated. As the Outers intend to spread further and deeper into space, and the repressive, conservative governments of Earth feel uncomfortable with allowing what they see as a new species to prosper, war seems to be brewing once again.
The Quiet War is at least in part a parable about the Cold War, with two sides holding diametrically opposed philosophies and conflict seeming inevitable despite the fact that most people don't want it to happen. Or one could read it as an allegory for the Iraq War (not that either side matches up), given that it's instigated almost entirely by a small group of people on one side, and the reader is led to sympathise with the large but ultimately marginalised peace movement. The novel is told from the point of view of a few different characters, the most important amongst them being Macy Minnot, a American scientist sent as part of a team to work on the construction of a biome on Callisto by the government of Brazil. The biome is a good faith gesture which elements of the Brazilian government want to sabotage, and through a series of events Macy is framed for murder and forced to defect to the Outers. McAuley is thus given the opportunity to take us on a grand tour of his invented world as Macy begins her new life as an exile in the outer system, the drumbeats of war growing louder.
You can easily see the influence of Kim Stanley Robinson in this novel, not just in the thoughtful scope of his futuristic world-building and the repeated scientific infodumps, but also in the sort of worldviews he, as an author, seems to possess. There's an awful lot of exposition when it comes to both scene-setting (understandably hard to avoid in this type of story) and character motivation (less tolerable). His two major characters are both scientists – rational, intelligent, level-headed people constantly troubled by the lesser minds around them. There's one particularly telling scene on Ganymede, where Macy is trying to settle into her new life and is constantly harassed and bullied by a "cosmo angel" named Jibril, a narcissistic performance artist who films and disseminates her reactions. Jibril is the only "traditional" artist of any kind in the book; certainly the genetic creations of some of the more genius scientists are presented as art. The presentation of this character, along with a fellow Ganymedean's suggestion to Macy that she should "video them videoing you and post it; make your own art that critiques Jibril's," gave me a fairly clear idea of what Paul McAuley, hard science fiction writer, thinks about the respective importance of art and science.
But as with Robinson, it's hard to fault him for it, when he's presenting such a beautiful vision of science as art: of the human race spreading out across the worlds, harnessing technology to create new life, building floating gardens in the atmosphere of Saturn or treetop cities on low gravity moons where humans fly between the branches. It's a compelling vision of a possible future for humanity, war and all, which makes you vaguely depressed to look up from it and remember that it's 2014 and we still have no plans to go to Mars. I can see why it won the Arthur C. Clarke Award; it's a pretty classic candidate.
It's a shame, on the whole, that The Quiet War's story – with its clunky exposition, constant political subterfuge and doublecrossing, and unmemorable characters – doesn't quite live up to the world it takes place in. (Story of science fiction's life, I guess.) It also ends on a somewhat abrupt note, with the war over but the outer system in disarray, and the characters treading water. There's a sequel, which I'll probably read, but I'm in no rush to do so.
Not as good as 'Gardens of the Sun.' The reason for the war between Earth and the Outers was really contrived. Last 50 pages or so was a ho-hum type of battle.
Paul McAuley has been on my "I really should read something by that guy some time" list for quite a while now, and now I finally got around to it. He's been around for a while and apparently quite versatile, writing, among other things, alternative history and near future thrillers. The Quiet War (which was on the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2009) is space opera – not so much the pulpy Golden Age variant of E.E. Smith but the contemporary variant that was started off by C.J. Cherryh with her Downbelow Station and that aims for more realism and psychological depth.
Unusual even for the modern version of the genre (and one, although not the only, reason why the book is titled as it is) there is only a single space battle in this novel, and even that is very small in scale, involving only three fighters and the automated self defense system of an asteroid. Which does not mean that the "small, quiet war" (as it once called by one of its main instigators) does not cost any lives, quite to the contrary - but those are mostly civilians, acting to defend their homes or even outright executed, and in that sense the novel's title is a cutting sarcasm.
The war itself is also very brief: It only takes up about the final fifth of the novel, while its main bulk is dedicated to the political shuffling and military intrigue paving the way towards the eventual outbreak of open conflict, attempts to maintain peace becoming more and more desperate as war appears increasingly inevitable. The forces arraigned against each other are an Earth ruled by dictatorships and the grass-root democracies of the Outer Planets of the Solar system. While it is quite clear which faction has the author's sympathies, McAuley does not paint the Outers of unblemished paragons of all that's good – among the widely varying societies and their lifestyles colonising the moons of Saturn and Jupiter there are many that are just as repressive and as disregarding of their members' happiness and wellbeing as any dictatorship, and neither are the Outers in general immune to intolerance.
Nuanced characterisation is generally one of the strong points of The Quiet War, and that applies not just to the various factions but also to individual protagonists. A good example (and my favourite point of view character) is Sri Hong-Owen, a genius scientist who becomes a puppet in the political scheming between factions vying for power in her home nation of Greater Brazil. But while she herself continues to perceive herself as an innocent victim who is only interested in pursuing her science, it gradually is shown to the reader that she is willing to go to absolutely any length to realise her own goals, and that those have a lot more to do with satisfying her own vanity than with furthering science.
The writing, if not brilliant, is at least solid; there are some very impressive vistas of places where humanity has carved out a niche for itself in the Solar system's moons and McAuley is very good at describing the helplessness of living in a dictatorship where one's very existence hangs on the whim of the powerful or the atmosphere in a city under siege where slowly but inexorably paranoia and mob rule take over. In general, and that is probably its greatest strength, The Quiet War succeeds very well in making the reader feel what it would be like to live out in space, where the environment is unforgivingly lethal and a small carelessness or a minor freak accident can be fatal, but where humanity rises to the challenge and realises its full potential. Which, everything considered, is a very Golden Age attitude after all.
McAuley takes a handful of common themes in science fiction—an Earth rebuilding after some (unspecified) disaster, genetic engineering, cyberpunk-ish type dystopias, conflict between Earth and her colonies—and melds them together into a piece of social and political science fiction that feels creative and new.
There is a strong thread of hard science fiction in this story, not suprising given that McAuley was a biologist by profession. At times, this makes for a few daunting pages as the genetic engineers discuss the environments they've created but he was smart enough to keep the narrative from depending upon those details; the story moves on smoothly whether they make sense or not.
I think this book would appeal to fans of Stephen Donaldson's "Gap" series, Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age, or some of Cherryh's social science fiction, though I'm not sure how much it would attract those who are only marginal about the genre. I'm looking forward to picking up the sequel in this two-part story.
This novel is one of the best SF novels of the past couple of years. It is fullthroatedly SFnal, distinctly "hard."
Though flawed, The Quiet War makes you want more precisely because there's so much promise in its primary characters and settings. McAuley makes science incredibly exciting, and you'll have his weird images and ideas in your brain for days after you put the book down. War may not have been the best plot device to get this story in motion, but the vacuum organisms and communes on Uranus make this a novel well worth your time.
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Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of democratic tradition. The fragile detente between the Outer cities and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy, inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System, and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late; others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards. Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations, crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war.… (more)
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TCA parties are known for loud music, tons of actors, executives and producers, and lots and lots of reporters.
Friday night's bash thrown by Garth Ancier, the new president of US Operations BBC Worldwide America, had none of those things. As a result, it's become the party of the tour. Who talked the exec into opening up his private home to members of the TCA ? "Nobody," he tells TV Squad. "This way my idea. I've had many great parties here over the years."
Ancier entertained TCA members with stories of working with the late great Aaron Spelling and how the ex-head of The WB arranged a meeting with the series-making mogul. "He might have thought we were going to cancel Charmed," Ancier theorized.
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I think I've got an answer but you probably won't like it. It's good old fashioned driver hypocrisy, folks, and I'm going to argue a whole lot of us could plead guilty.
Oh, we claim to want the rules enforced .but then say to ourselves, 'And that light was yellow, I swear. Yeah, whatever.
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- Pain that may travel throughout the body here, there and everywhere.
- Fatigue that just turns off all the energy your body had just a few minutes ago.
- Fibrofog that makes it difficult to know what you're doing, what you've done, and what you should be doing.
- Disregulation of the body. Your bladder, your bowels, your sleep, your internal thermostat are all out of whack.
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My nurse practicioner has a sense of humor we can all appreciate. Her comment was, "You're in incredibly good health--especially for someone who hurts like h**l all the time!"
You've got to love a woman like that!
All kidding aside, they have to rule out all kinds of things from arthritis to lupus to cancer to only the Lord knows what else. THEN they can give a diagnosis of FM. It's because there are so many other things that can account for our symptoms. After they rule out all the things that are really dangerous or are simply more treatable, they can say, "You have fibromyalgia." (If your doc is really old, he may say "fibrosis."
Have you tried those clip on thingys for tennis elbow? It's amazing how much mine helped a few years ago.
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You do know that there are some docs out there that say they can cure your FM by fixing your Chiari Malformation, don't you?
It's when the spine high in your neck is pressing on the spinal chord. It is correctable surgically.
Whether it can cure FM or not is another question. SOME people with FM have this problem. But no one (not even the docs that swear by the operation) can claim it would make all of us suddenly be FM free.
It's one of those gray areas. No one is claiming these surgeons are quacks, but not too many neuros or rheumys are sending their patients in for the surgery either.
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We budget out time and our resources. We pay attention to our diet and medication schedules to be fit for the big day.
And then it happens. The Great Energy Switch decides to turn itself into the OFF position. You feel like a balloon with a not-so-slow leak. Standing is too much effort. Sitting is too much effort. You HAVE to go lay down.
Today was my birthday, my 70th birthday. Dear hubby was grilling steaks. I had baked potatoes all scrubbed and ready, I'd fixed a big bowl of salad. The table was all set. I was just rinsing off some grapes to have with desert when the fatigue hit. I finished the fruit and sat down for a minute. It wasn't enough.
Hubby brought me supper in bed. I ate alone while everyone else was sitting at my birthday table.
In the grand scheme, it's not such a big thing, but for me--just for today--it was a symbol of all this condition has robbed us all of for entirely too long. We need a cure. Sometime before I hit 80 would be nice.
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You NEED to have that insurance. I don't know what we would have done without it. I had been our principal breadwinner, working full time all year. (Hubby's job was part-time, hourly, and only paid during the 30 weeks that college was in session!)
My employer had a sick bank, we could join and donate sick days for others to use as needed. This helped us when I was off for 6 weeks.
The NYS Teachers' Retirement System includes disability insurance. It was based on years of teaching and all you needed to apply was a letter from your doctor. It covered our mortgage for us.
SSDI was denied, appealed, and finally won 2 years after my last day teaching. It helps too. We do need groceries.
Get whatever disability insurance you can beg, borrow, or steal!
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I go from feeling hot and sticky to being cold and shivering. This happens only when it is humid out and our old house gets damp.
I dress for the way I feel at the time. On hot days when I start out in shorts, I still bring along my sweats.
Mimi's right about the cuddl duds. They do help you keep warm. They come in styles like camisoles and others that give more coverage.
Hope this helps,
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Mary's right. Your meds are off. Yes, we do need some extra naptime, but it is usually because we don't really sleep at night.
Have you been tested for chronic fatigue? There are some tests that will help your doctor to help you. If you do not let her/him know what your life is like, you will not be tested, and you will not be treated.
People with CF are treated with antibiotics and/or antivirals.
Many of those with fibromyalgia also have chronic fatigue. It's not just an either/or. (My diagnosis is fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.)
As you get better and have more energy, you will find that you WANT to get out more. You will spend more time with your elderly friend and make friends with others as you are more and more able to spend time outside your home.
As you feel better physically, you really should find a way to have your agoraphobia addressed. You NEED to have friends. We all do.
You assume that because we have families, that we are not alone. Being a farmwife, there are times during the year when the only time I see my husband is when he finally comes home for dinner. If it isn't the actual fieldwork, it's the equipment that breaks down, or another farmer who needs his help. Believe me, by the time hubby comes home, he has no reserves to spend on comforting me on a bad day.
Besides, the only people who can really understand are those who share this condition. We all have slightly different symptoms at different times. But we are all in pain. We are all horribly fatigued. We are all horribly alone in the cocoon of our illness.
But here, at this site, we are all alike. We are a community.
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I get them about every 3 weeks for myofascial pain in those places where the muscles are all tight. Muscle relaxants like Flexeril help too.
Hope some of this helps.
BetteKView Thread
Do the things that bring you joy. Run as long as you can. Walk on bad days. (Did you know that you burn just as many calories walking a mile as running a mile? It just takes longer to do that mile.)
But always be aware of your body and the signals it is sending you. If you listen, you will know when to take a break. You'll get a bag boy to lug those milk jugs. You'll schedule shopping trips so that someone at home can help empty the van.
About that coffee, I can almost smell it. Enjoy.
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They seem to be bothering a lot of us lately. Here's something that might ease a little bit of the pain and strain.
Remember the position you were told to sleep in during pregnancy? (Or your wife was told to sleep in, Cory?) It was supposed to prevent back and hip pain, but it may also help those knees.
Lay on your side. Have enough pillow power to support your neck and head. Bend your knees, and place a pillow between them. (I use a pillow that separates my knees and my ankles.) This prevents the weight of the top leg from squishing the bottom knee.
Hey, it's worth a try.
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