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Last week I was clearing out old email from Jeff's computer, and found a hilarious email exchange between us.

Jeff used to fall asleep watching TV. Actually, he fell asleep a lot of places, but for now let's just stick with "watching TV."

The thing is he'd fall asleep with the remote in his hand, which sometimes caused the program I was watching to suddenly be gone, or it might end up being forwarded/rewound if we happened to be watching a recorded DVR program. I'd wake him up and ask for the remote. My request was always denied with "It's ok. I'm awake now!"

After a few closely spaced incidences one night, I demanded the remote. He was reluctant to give it up, as usual. Finally, he did, realizing that if I missed any single second of Reuben Studdard on American Idol, I was going to be royally annoyed - for a royally long time.

Here’s that email thread:

Me: Thank you for giving me the remote last night… I know it was traumatic for you, but you handled the separation like a pro! Kisses.

Jeff: Well you are soooo welcome. But I was having the shakes and passed out several times this morning. I called the Dr. right away and she told me I had Post-Traumatic Remote Control Separation Syndrome. She told [me] to take two aspirins and call the PTRCSS Society. So I called them and they said they would be happy to help me out with my problem for a small donation of 500 dollars, and with that I called the credit union to make an electronic funds transfer of 600 to the fund for PTRCSS Society. When I finished that I called the PTRCSS Society again and they said they would come over tonight and assist me in this non-life-threatening but very bothersome disease. They have found out it is transferred thru a gene from the mother that is dormant in females but is very active in males. I have found this to be interesting and am learning quite a bit. My goal for the PTRCSS Society is to start a telethon within two years and have as much success as Jerry Lewis and Muscular Dystrophy. May I add that Jerry Lewis is also a sufferer of PTRCSS and that he donates a large sum to the PTRCSS Society every year? He tries to keep it very low key, as he is actually a very private person. Oh, and did I tell you that Jerry called me personally and told me how it felt to suffer from PTRCSS? He really is [as] nice on the phone as he is on TV. And he sang to me… it was sung to the tune of “You'll Never Walk Alone." He changed the words to “You'll Never Click Alone.� Well that’s about all the excitement I can handle for one day. Hope things quiet down a bit around here. I love youuuuuuuu.