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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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Aw no worries pal, you couldn't know our circumstances and I appreciate your sentiments.
Aye, a trip to anywhere right now would be better than the revolving doors at Pinders 
. Here's hoping you find a good one if that's in your plans xxx
Evening Eddie, thank you for your kind thoughts about sleep last night.
a very quick message , had dreadful pm eventually tracked down the letter from consultant and went to doc to collect .
can you believe it No information as to what they’d found,just barely saying what they offered in way of treatment so didn’t help at all ,the doc had no further info either.
when I got home the secretary eventually phoned me quite aggressively at first to say she had posted it to me yesterday ,it’s still no use to me by which time I was so stressed ,I thought the letter would help me think clearly,in the end , she said email me all the questions you have I’ll try and answer ,maybe good to have another meeting at the hospital asap to which I agreed .
so I had a bit of a meltdown.
sorry for ranting but feel sure you’ll understand how I’m feeling.
and so to bed with double pills tonight
eddie
Now that's a coincidence, when I finished work 6 years ago I volunteered at the Macmillan drop in unit at Pinderfields one day a week for some time (I live not that far away in Taddy).
I'm a lucky boy having had 2 separate cancers, one now incurable but treatable, I can still travel anywhere I like so me and my better half are maxing out on trips while we can. I feel very privileged to be able to do so when so many can't
Best wishes,
Derek.
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A very early morning to you Derek 
I'm crap at sleeping so I'm busy watching a series on Sky right now. I'm bonkers tbh.
Did you like Pinders, cos we sort of do, but we've seen a bit too much of it for our liking. You do absolutely right though, getting away whenever you can as you never know what's on the cards. We're in the position of not knowing when or how far we might be able to go, but abroad is definitely out of the question. Just as well neither of us is fussed; the east coast is more than enough for whenever that happens. We were on our way to Brid, almost 20 years ago, and the field by the brewery at Taddy was completely underwater due to the floods, with the tops of the goalposts just visible. I hope you've had nowt like that lately!
Anyroad, all the best fella and I hope you've got some good getaways in the pipeline. Take care xxx
Morning Steve 
I wondered what the hell you were doing up at this time when I saw your post to Derek. Your official night owl badge is winging its way immediately.
I heard a quote the other day by Margaret Atwood, I think: "Men are frightened women will laugh at them - women are frightened men will kill them."
The first thing that came to mind was your toilet dilemma the other week, that's why I said you were lucky a lady didn't answer the door to you.
Try and get some kip my friend xxx
