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Remember my neighbour who was ill sometime between our visit last summer and this? I've always had a bit of a crush on him. Actually, The Farmer - fiction is supposedly fiction but is 100% true (apart from his name). He has always made me pretty breathless. He is Tom Cruise with height. Lush just doesn't cover it, even though I also know he is quite vain (his bathroom is very metrosexual, and he has scales in front of a cheval mirror; plus his choice of clothes is always very carefully modish). Yesterday I saw him for the first time this trip - he came past in his tractor, screeched to a halt and jumped out to say hello. At this point I am normally a puddle in my pants, with a blush all over my face. He's always been too polite (or self-absorbed!) to notice. Or maybe it's a reaction he gets from all the women he meets - entirely possible. Anyway, the curious thing is that, since having heard about his brush with cancer (in his glands, apparently - there's a 2" scar on his neck from the surgery), I don't have that same reaction to him at all. In fact, I was all mother hen, clucking over the way his beautiful jet back hair is now greyer and much shorter as it grows back after the chemo/radio. I may have imagined it, but it may have been him that blushed at that. How odd, to have spent the last 3 years all tongue tied around him, and now to be suddenly cured of it. I can't say I'm unhappy about that. Was it just the fact that he proved he was an ordinary mortal after all that did it? I wonder. Blogito ergo sum. |
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 8/4/2008 12:44 pm |
I would tend to agree. And I am sure he was more "down to Earth" after all he has gone through...    Take off your clothes and visit me in the Red Room. All friends are welcome
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8/4/2008 3:46 pm |
Odd, but not surprising. Mothering instinct runs deep.
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8/4/2008 4:54 pm |
 CB.He went through a lot. So have you what with your caring about him. Gray hair is normal for his situation: a) stress; and b) the actual treatment.  As long as he isn't a Scientologist like Tom Cruise (with or without height), then he is an ordinary mortal after all.  Hope that he is in complete remission.  By all means feel free to drop into my blog. I'll brew up. To quote Bill Cosby, I'm so smart, I'm smarter than me!       
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 8/4/2008 5:22 pm |
Hey CB , have you thought that our NHS is actually bankrupt too. if it wasn,t then the government wouldn,t need to pour more and more taxpayers money into it to keep it running. Perhaps the six figure sums that they pay to administrators would be much better used to pay the doctors and nurses.
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8/4/2008 5:51 pm |
I heard a saying once, "There are no extraordinary men. Only ordinary men in extraordinary situations." Sometimes, I don't believe this is true. But I'm glad that this man, no matter what he is, or has been for you, is okay. Ken
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8/4/2008 10:52 pm |
Caring is good and I guess the mother instinct naturally takes over when the one you care for (even in dreams) has a set back. Good for you.
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8/5/2008 1:05 am |
It is very easy to take pot shots at the NHS. Here's a few thoughts... You cannot run a large organisation without administrators. If we didn't hire professional administrators to run the thing then we'd have to go back to having doctors do it and, of course, we'd promote the most experienced/senior/best doctors. This would be a classic British goof: turn your best technicians into bad managers. Given that, the NHS has a very much lower administrative overhead than, for instance, the United States. Anecdotes about delays in A&E are legendary. In my limited experience however, they are no where near as bad as they used to be. When I woke up in the wee hours with acute abdominal pain I called the much reviled NHS Direct. An ambulance arrived within ten minutes and I was examined by a consultant within 40 minutes of my call. The last few times I've pitched up in casualty with minor injuries I've been attended to within an hour. GP practice has also changed. I have a string of personal anecdotes about laughably incompetent GPs but in the last 10 years I have seen radical improvements. GPs in the practice I currently use are attentive, open-minded, non-patronising and have a real commitment to preventative medicine. B&R xxx  
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(I'm sure most people would think the new hair looks fine, but it's not a patch on what it was).
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