Laughter IS the best medicine, but if you've had some surgeries, it can really hurt. Remind me - what originally put Pat in the hospital? Is it something that laughter will hurt or harm?

I came home after cancer surgery in 2000 and thought I'd try that "laughter" therapy and turned on reruns from a couple of television programs I'd always liked. Frasier and The Golden Girls were remarkably funny, and I would have to hold my stomach to laugh. So it doesn't need to be just movies.

But if you're talking funny movies, over the holidays I put the National Lampoon christmas vacation movie in and my ex and my daughter's boyfriend apparently had never seen it. They were like deer in the headlights, with regular bursts of laughter. And the one that really made them squirm was Peter Sellers in Being There.

SRS