You know how old stand-up comedians used to start their routines with “A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre…”? Well, a few weeks ago, a funny thing happened me in the airport. I took a quick trip to the bathrooms and was alarmed to discover quite a lot of blood on the [...]
Right, let’s talk about the night of 1st July 2009 and the bloody, wrist-slashing adventure that ensued. We’d only buried my father at the weekend, and with that rather large event behind us, there was suddenly a metric ton of paperwork to take care of. Notifying all the various companies he had accounts with, getting [...]
Let’s come straight out and say it: Lisa’s mother has been diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. The events that led up to this have been unfolding over the past month, and a fairly concrete diagnosis came something over a week or a fortnight ago. Lisa, naturally, was devastated. She didn’t help herself much by doing some [...]
Every time I visit my father in the hospital, I pass the Blood Transfusion Service. It’s been weeks now, and with each passing day I’ve been questioning why I don’t give blood. This last week though, I’ve been trying to push myself towards making a donation. I’ve had to accept that I’m slightly nervous about blood [...]
