I feel ashamed.

I've got this friend who's lying in hospital. Do you know why she's lying in hospital? Because after several instances of surgery, her Haemoglobin score is at 8.2. This is, apparently, 'get thee to a transfuser' territory. if it goes below 8 then you're looking at them not taking no for an answer.

This friend of mine has refused a ( Read more... )

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, ( Read more... )