Wednesday, August 31, 2011

And now I do feel bad

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My brother sounded quite shaken on the phone and I can see why. I'm quite shaken up myself - I didn't think I'd be because I...
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I might be feeling a little uneasy

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But I'm sure my parents are going through purgatory and my brother probably is too as they meet the expert team discussing Dad's Pan...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tomorrow's The Day

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Dad will get his discussion with the medical team and will find out the situation about his Pancreatic Cancer. It's early stage, that...

Bladder Cancer Podcast

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This may be interesting - it is almost 14 minutes long and it explains Bladder Cancer, Symptoms, Treatment etc.
Monday, August 29, 2011

Dilemma in the making

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My folks live a long way away from me. Sure I could drive there and back in a day but the journey isn't particularly nice. It takes yo...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

All quiet - thank goodness

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Spoke to mum and things are settled at home - dad's feeling well enough to drive again so they will give that a try later in the week an...

Hurrah

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The laptop has taken all of its updates without a problem and I've cleaned out all those annoying bars that now come with software these...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

One Leaves the Other Appears

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My daughters that is L is in Tenerife, A has just arrived back from Edinburgh and I am sitting at my PC with the new laptop going through th...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Damn PC

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So it went back to the shop today to get the money back and interestingly they tried it out and verified my diagnosis... It's taken the...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

How can this be?

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L's new PC doesn't work properly - it appears that the problem may be an intermittent fault with the keyboard. All that time I'...

Mmm - facing up to the inevitable

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It isn't easy is it? Dad's got Pancreatic Cancer. It's early stage and it hasn't spread. The operation is an ordeal that,...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

That was an awkward moment

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Spoke to my Dad. Danced around and sort of half laughed at the seriousness of his situation. I think he wanted "my blessing" tha...

Ramping up

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Even more now as we get right into the guts of the business plan and the ideas come together and the plan begins to fill up with content. I...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Back to business and my head hurts

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I was working with an old friend this morning who wants me to get involved in a deal with him that would be a pretty useful little sideline ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

That's reassuring then

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Spoke to mum this morning and I could hear dad in the background being, dad! Mucking about, firing off one line jokes and all that. So tha...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Mary Archer's Bladder Cancer

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In the Telegraph today - Jeffrey Archer's wife Mary has a new bladder to combat the disease. It is an interesting story but the words ...

The Pursuit of Happiness

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It occurred to me that one of the strange things about life is that you sometimes don't appreciate what you have. For example, L is in ...
Friday, August 19, 2011

The Curry Club

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Off for a meeting of the Curry Club. 17 of us and I've decided to drive tonight and not to have a beer. It does me good not to occasio...

Reflections on Dad's Cancer

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Sooner or later we all have to come to terms with stuff happening to our parents. It's that sort of time of life when that's what h...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Oops - upset my brother

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Come to look back on it, Mum was pretty matter of fact and told me what was going on and then said talk to my brother. So T has all the det...