Be thinking of you singularity!
Thanks. It was definitely the scariest scan I've had yet. Drinking the two bottles of barium was no problem but I wound up needing an IV before and during the scan(I have a needle phobia). There is a miniscule chance of your body having a severe reaction to it and they wait five minutes before starting the scan to make sure you are doing ok. I started feeling a bit weird but other than that, it was smooth sailing.
I should know within a few days if I have bladder cancer. Been dealing with this health scare for months and one way or the other, glad to finally get the test that will truly rule it in or out. I didn't trust my doctor's previous opinion that "I had nothing to worry about". To anyone here reading who may have some health issues and your doctor says everything is peaches and cream, be on the safe side and get a second opinion.
Now back to the discussion....
Patsy reported to Dr Beuf in August 1996 that JonBenet was asking about sex roles and reproduction.
Interesting. I forgot about that.
I've also seen it mentioned in Dr Hodges' book A Mother Gone Bad that JonBenet had a dream that she had a baby,
I need to read that book.
@DrollForeignFaction
are you trying to figure out if Burke went downstairs for the Nintendo?
Yes. He would've been jumping for joy when getting that for his present. It was THE hot gift in 96. Many kids didn't get one due to the low supply. We know that the kids played it together at some point that day. I assume that while being at the Whites, he would've been anticipating playing it more when he got home. Its the main reason I question John's sincerity regarding putting together a toy with Burke later that night. I doubt he would've cared much about legos, transformers, or whatever the other gifts were.
The reason I ask about the amount of TVs is the fact it only takes a couple minutes to hook up a N64 to another TV. JUst as an example, lets say John wants to play Mario with his son but doesn't want to do so in his bedroom. They could easily hook it up in the living room. John goes to bed or at least upstairs, this means the N64 is still down there.......a
very good reason for Burke to want to go back downstairs. Another example would be Jonbenet throwing a fit wanting to play it too but wants it in her room, so John and/or Patsy hook it up in her room for awhile. There's also a lot of chaos in JAR's room and even though we don't see a TV in the pics, you're right that the stack of videos certainly insinuates one was in his room.
I just looked up the N64 to see exactly what it came with at launch. You could buy two games(Mario and Pilotwings) and its pretty much a guarantee that Burke got both. Now that I think about it, John might have had some interest in playing a bit of Pilotwings with Burke. The console came with one controller so any extra would have been bought separately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilotwings_64
(For those not interested in consoles/games and/or don't wish to read that link, Pilotwings is one of the first flight simulators)
Nintendo released these games for the 96 holiday shopping season:
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Wave Race 64
Wayne Gretzky's Hockey
Killer Instinct
Cruisin' USA
Star Wars
N64 accessories sold included the rumble pak(makes controllers vibrate), controller pack(memory card), S-Video cable(theorized as one of the possible strangulation devices in old BDI theories), etc. N64 also had a glove controller and steering wheel for racing games although I don't see a release date for those two items so they might not have been available at that time.
John mentions Burke and stickers? NIntendo had promo stickers up the wazoo that year. Maybe Burke is one of the types that liked putting stickers on his console or maybe even the controller(s).
Dollars to donuts this was a stocking stuffer for Burke.....
