Shaun called it "the best kind of brain tumour to have", which I'm pretty sure means it gives me super-powers.

Or it could do this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYucU765-M8

Better Adric than Nikki Brand and Brian O'Blivion. :)

Be well ;-)

And I kinda liked Adric. Hmph.

Shaun called it "the best kind of brain tumour to have", which I?m pretty sure means it gives me super-powers.

Hopefully these powers will include the abilitiy to sustain repeated blows to the right side of your head.

If not, be extra careful.

Worse than the dilation is the eyeball pressure test, in which they check how much fluid?

And I kinda liked Adric. Hmph.

It was nearly Teegan, but if you're going to have a Teegan then you kind of have to have a Nyssa as well, and I'm not looking to do that.

Worse than the dilation is the eyeball pressure test, in which they check how?

And I bet the Germans have a specific word (probably about a dozen syllables) for the kind of scary relief you get when?

everyone will comment on how brave you are

Oh, yeah, I'm a total wee battler, me. What I've been working on is getting as much booze, smoking and crap food in before somebody tells me I shouldn't.

before somebody tells me I shouldn't.

I doubt they could ;) Cheers.
p.s. I think the 20 secs cry part really showed your human side.

What I've been working on is getting as much booze, smoking and crap food in before somebody tells me I shouldn't.

On my 90th birthday I will cease to resist cigars, cheese, and Class A drugs. I hope very much to see you at the party.

The radiographer was lovely, though with a curious total inability to refer to my partner as my partner?

On my 90th birthday I will cease to resist cigars, cheese, and Class A drugs. I hope very much to see you at the party.

I shall pencil it into my diary, darling.

Explaining to him that I'd had an epileptic fit, while innocently alseep in bed with a gay?

I postulated that perhaps what they'd seen was an obscuration caused by all the porn I'd read and watched in the last few years: a smut-clog. Either that or there was now medical evidence that 'it' really does make you go blind.

Your superpowers of humour are clearly unaffected.

Apparently?

cigars, cheese, and Class A drugs

the combination for real grownups.

and Emma, just tell Adric to stay cool and act like nothing's happening at all.

[...] the sort of tumour that you just leave in and keep an eye on.

Heeeeee. :D

I expect a perpetual motion machine and the launch code for the US missile silos on my desk by morning!

As for the rest of you I am disappointed in you, I all the way at the bottom of this thread with out a Travolta reference!?

("but not as much as this would") and sent me out into the waiting room to wait for them to take effect.

Hah, been there (cataracts) you hang out with a bunch of others with watery eyes (and twice your age if it's cataract patient day) all peering in vain?

In the mean time I'll be completely selfish and look forward to more hospital stories ....

On my 90th birthday I will cease to resist cigars, cheese, and Class A drugs.

Isn't that leaving it a bit late? (Especially for the cheese?)

p.s. I think the 20 secs cry part really showed your human side.

I'm curious about what Emma's other side is now! Emma, are you secretly half-something-else? Like Lieutenant Saavik, say?

(Also: Christ, all that sounds scary. Empathetic ACK!)

Your superpowers of humour are clearly unaffected.

Set against the pathos, it's hilarious reading.?

I'm curious about what Emma's other side is now!

I guess I always think of TANK GIRL

I've never had the it's-a-brain-tumour-but-not-a-bad-one experience, 'though I have had the OMG-I've-found-a-lump-in-my-breast experience. It was... frightening, the first time. And?

All the very best for the upcoming coming treatment, and thanks for posting about the experience – a lesson to us all about getting unusual lumps,?

may all come well -kia te hauora, kia te koa, kia ora na-

Kia ora, Islander. I shall think of you the next time I'm squinting at my monitor from four inches away.

I guess I always think of TANK GIRL

Sofie, you are choice.

My lovely, much missed Dad?

I was at a party once (okay, probably more than once)

That's got to be a chapter title at least.

I guess I always think of TANK GIRL

I was thinking more the redoubtable Octobriana – allegedly created in the 1960s by a group of dissident Russian artists calling themselves Progressive Political Pornography – no matter, a great comic heroine, with?

Anyway, may what doesn't kill you CONTINUE NOT TO DO SO.

Failure is an attractive attribute of a tumour.

Yeah, I'm pretty down with a burnout-underachiever-type tumour myself. Like, a pot casualty growth or something: it can't really be bothered to get off the couch.

I was thinking more the redoubtable Octobriana

Ian, she is AWESOME! (I have a small collection of communist lapel pins and one of those little round furry hats. They were all gifts. *cough* gifts, even.)

They got confused (and somewhat upset) around the words brain tumour. Mark, being in the loop, just giggled. Especially at the Teegan/Nyssa comments.

If I could do more I would.

But seriously, thanks for sharing, and opening a very private door to us all.

Or a window...

That was a scary and funny but concerning blog. Can your eye sight be improved without invasive surgery? And did you get to keep photos of you brain; do you want me to?

do you want me to try to build some sort of computer monitory contraption out of two broken digital cameras, that we might manage to hook up directly, as a last ditch effort?

Dude,?

Can your eye sight be improved without invasive surgery?

No. Without invasive surgery it will, almost certainly, very slowly get worse.

My daughter was very interested in the invasive surgery prospects. She wanted to know if I'd need my hair shaved off, and how they'd go in,?

Dude, she's not single, but nice try. ;)

I realized how i'd blown it by mentioning how I only have broken digital cameras to work with. The CCD's are still good, as are the LCD's.

To me, benign is something that is all smiley with hugs and drinks all round.

Even a benign tumour is a bit of a bastard. Just not as big?

Speaking about the visual field test and that damed pressure thing (they fire an air blast into your eye that feels like a bullet) for some reason I feel?

Steven,
Can't blame a guy for trying. I mean if you don't ask whether "we might manage to hook up" you'll never know, right?

I feel so nerdy. I should have said "would you like to look thru my view finder"

And/but congratulations for not getting a more horrible diagnosis. The other person I know?

I recently had a heart issue diagnosed and just knowing what was actually wrong provided a huge improvement of mind. To improve it further now I'm going to name my wonky valves 'Riley' (for obvious Adric-type reasons) or (because?