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[TheFaQQer]

She has refused chemotherapy. I have to understand the reasons why before deciding if good or bad. If I was 84 with weeks to live, I would not want to go through pain and misery to get another month!

Sorry to hear that, but I'm with you on this bit.

If I get to 84, I'll be a happy man, so an extra month (unless there was a big family event in that time) probably wouldn't interest me. That said, if I get to 84, I'll be so shocked it'll probably give me a heart attack.

[NickFitz]

Just had a very distressed call from my mother. The hospital have confirmed she has leukaemia. Which we all knew last week - the news has just sunk in.

In slightly better news, step-father-out-law has agreed to chemotherapy for his bowel cancer. We were not expecting that so good news.

<- manly

[NickFitz]

Quite a busy day today. I got absorbed in what I was doing, made some good progress, learned a few things.

Problem is, I really couldn't give a stuff about any of the stuff we're doing

Still, only got to make it to October…

[NickFitz]

Sainsbury's organic Basmati rice recommends allowing 57g of uncooked rice per person. The figure seems either ludicrously precise or merely arbitrary, until one remembers that it's almost exactly 2oz. They must have converted it from some pre-metric instructions

[mudskipper]

In the clutches of FGW.

[zeitghost]

Well there we are then.

The next square of lawn is almost cleared of weeds and strawberry plants.

Next is digging it over to get more of the couch grass roots out, followed by some deft levelling and then some sowing of seed.

I wonder if the stuff in the shed from last year is any good.

We'll soon find out.

Friendly toad was someone pissed off with my digging.



Night all.



Fish for tea, & tomorrow's lamb stew is festering on the stove.

Should be lovely by tomorrow evening.

[zeitghost]

In the clutches of FGW.

Could be worse.

Could be Arriva Trains Wales.

[zeitghost]

Just had a very distressed call from my mother. The hospital have confirmed she has leukaemia. Which we all knew last week - the news has just sunk in.

In slightly better news, step-father-out-law has agreed to chemotherapy for his bowel cancer. We were not expecting that so good news.

Oh goody. Phone call from my brother. I should have known I would not get a straight answer from my mother. My mother actually has weeks to live. The leukaemia is very acute and has 80% burst cells which is bad.

Will see how she settles. But now planning how to get the kids to see her. If she wants to see them.

She has refused chemotherapy. I have to understand the reasons why before deciding if good or bad. If I was 84 with weeks to live, I would not want to go through pain and misery to get another month!

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Sorry to hear that mate.

Sounds grim.

Phone call from MrsB.

Cat has been in the wars again. Another trip to the vets, this time with an infected bite on the side of his head. Too close to his one remaining eye to risk lancing it while he is awake and he's too old to risk sedation. Sent home with heavy duty anitbiotics, painkillers and cleaing swabs.

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[mudskipper]

Could be worse.

Could be Arriva Trains Wales.

Going nowhere...

[mudskipper]

Going nowhere...

21:34 yet to depart...