Posts by Jackie Clark
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Why yes I did. It's even in the diary. Is it next weekend?
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I've never had lamb shanks. I can be the perfect guinea pig.
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No no no no. Seriously. No. It's kind and now it's getting a bit overwhelming. We'll get a bike for a good price on HP. I just wanted suggestions!
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The other stuff about cancer in particular which soundly pisses me off is all the battle talk.
Snappy mcsnap snap. I was going to compose a rant about this also. Re the positive thinking thing, I have long thought that it is largely denial based ie I won't let this thing beat me, I am stronger than this .
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Peter puts me in mind of our haematologist when Ian had leukemia. Never mind that only 30% of people with ALL survive past 5 years, by which time they aren''t seeing the haematologist anyway, she really couldn't believe how much pain he was in. It's all in your head, she blithely assured us. So we insisted on seeing a pain specialist who, instead of telling Ian to buck up, told us that it was an area that people didn't know much about in patients who'd undergone the physical equivalent of Hades, because most of them didn't make it. And this is what Emma's post has done. Opened up a forum for people who have chronic fatigue. People who nornally would not mention it, and indeed have not. Like people who are left with dire consequences of intense chemo and radiotherapy, one never hears of the pain, and the hell that life can be, because no-one wants, or is allowed, to talk about it. You find your new normal, much as it sucks, because life goes on. Even if you can't participate in it fully, from time to time, or for months and years on end. It still goes on.People with chronic conditions don't whine or complain publicly. They get on with their lives in the best way they can. And that is why it behoves the rest of us to listen.
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Peter, with all due respect, CFS is not ordinary tiredness. You may feel better after exercise, I feel better after exercise, but we don't have CFS.
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Geoff, so kind, but not necessary, really. Did I ever tell you what a silver fox you are?
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oh cool, thanks Ben
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And now for something that isn't house, or rock and roll. Just beautiful. Why they aren't more wellknown I have no idea. Oh, and while we're at it, I miss my brother so you can watch him too.
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Oh, and James Butler, hello neighbour. I live in Thorley St.