I don't know if it's denial or if my brain turned itself off, but yesterday was another in the long list of recent events that just didn't seem to be really happening. I was there and all this stuff was going on in front of me: the coffin was carried in, hymns were sung, we went to the graveside, the coffin was lowered into the ground, the vicar ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who has commented on LJ/MSN'd me/texted me/left me voicemails - it really does mean a lot although I'm still not really up to actual human contact at the moment. Having something of a bad day again today - lost it a bit whilst out in public earlier, doh - but it's going to be like that for a while I guess. Sometimes I think I'm ( Read more... )

In my last post I mentioned that I had something of a sore throat ( Read more... )

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Having spent the last 4 days and Monday night at Wexham Park Hospital I'm beginning to feel like Tom Hanks' character in that movie, The Terminal - although my appearance is probably more like his character in Castaway. (Except I'm not running around the hospital corridors dressed in a loin-cloth hurling spears at fish. At least, not yet anyway.) ( Read more... )

So, Dad's still in hospital and we've got news at last - some polyp's have taken up residence and have turned cancerous so they need to be removed. The main artery in his heart is also overly-dilated (probably as a result of the massive cocktail of pills he's been popping) and that needs some work doing too. They've got to assess whether his heart ( Read more... )

Friday 13th. And for someone who has the amount of [sarcasm mode *on*] amazingly good luck as I do, today could prove to be a bit dangerous ( Read more... )

Just spent the first hour of the working week catching up on everyone's LiveJournal entries from over the weekend. Phew, you lot have been busy ain't cha ?

Firstly, the SAVE MR DISCO campaign starts here ( Read more... )