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Just getting ready for my Wednesday appointment when Irene took the phonecall that it was cancelled. LINAC 1 has broken down. Irene says that’s two machines I have busted. I think it’s probably the girls want a rest from my derriere, n’est pas? How’s the song go – Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad. Back on Thursday to LINAC 1 – the servicing of LINAC 2 had been delayed when LINAC 1 broke down. Mr. Seventeen o’clock was there…

Another father Tale. Father’s propensity to alcohol Was directly proportional to his love of life And inversely proportional to his life of love (And his propensity to alcohol was certainly not because of the taste) His intelligence was without doubt And what he lacked in common-sense Was more than compensated by his joie de vivre (His joie de vivre was off the Richter Scale for earthquakes) To put in bluntly Father…

Well Eric did lead me astray and I am not regretting the circumstances. Graham, the welfare steward, must have put the right amount of beer in the water. Or water in the beer. Depending on your point of view. It started late on Saturday – extreme tiredness and nausea. The last time I started a chemo course it hit me on the Friday – this time a day late. Sunday was even worse although I did manage to cook and eat dinner…

Monday left home at 1.00pm and got back at ten past six although traffic was horrendous on the way back due to the snow. Tuesday left at twenty to one and was back by twenty past three. I got on the Medilink bus when the students were chucking out of wherever they were – all wearing hoodies with “The wearer is not just a physiotherapist – they are a hand-picked physiotherapist from Nottingham University.” At the maternity…

I am now going to clinic 2 of the radiotherapy clinic in City hospital. I now travel to Wilkinson Street park and ride and get the medilink bus which takes ten minutes to get there and fifteen to get back because it travels the hospital campus which is free and much better than trying my luck parking in the City hospital shambles of a parking system with their lunatic parking attendant. The first day I went there I found…