Awake and up all night

Many hugs. If not a martyr you must be a trainee saint. I've not seen that film either. I avoid films that feature medical things except for Carry on Nurse. Probably not the same type of film , xx

Many thanks to you too, Julie. But hey, it's all you guys I admire as you're the real heroes, going through brutal treatments to make you well. All our lives have been turned upside down but helping each other, in any way at all, is the main objective.

Thank you sweetheart, but thank yourself too, as I draw off yours and others' strength here and that's what keeps me going xxx

Ray, the film was about inmates in an asylum - pretty good in a comedic way.

My favourite Carry On film ever, Carry on Nurse, and I've got it on DVD, courtesy of my daughters from many moons ago xxx

I have seen a brilliant comedy film which was in an asylum. I can't recall the title. The only scene that comes to mind  was an inmate ripping a washbasin off the wall and throwing it out of a window for some reason. The actor that did that was, I think, well known and had starred in a very popular film (Back to the Future??). I'll do some digging.  xx

The film I mentioned starred Jack Nicholson, but it's years since I saw it xxx

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the film I saw. The washbasin scene may have been in that one. The actor was Christopher Lloyd. 

You've cracked it Ray! Funnily enough though, I've not seen it televised for donkeys unless I missed it. So you'll probably know about all the screaming that went on for the longest time then. It didn't half upset my neighbour xxx

I may have remembered it slightly wrong. The you tube clip does have the actors we've mentioned but a different actor threw the wash basin thing out of the window. I'll have to watch it again in full if it is on line somewhere. I did enjoy it way back when (1975, unless I saw it later on TV).  xxx

I've just had a look, and it said that exclusivity streaming rights could be why terrestrial TV doesn't air the film now. Netflix might have it maybe? I think it was the mid to late eighties when I saw it last.

Are you back up to par again after your treatment hon? xxx

Yes thanks Gill. The trouble I have is somewhat ridiculous. Cancer almost got me in 2018 and I've been on a 'palliative' regime since early 2019. I have not been cured or ever been in remission. I have survived into my 8th year since all of that. Back then, I thought I'd be lucky to have 6 months after coming out of hospital. My mind is  hinting to me that this cannot continue for much longer. Any slight symptom I notice, even if I've had the same now and then over the 7 and a bit years, now has an increasingly strong 'is this it?' thought train attached. Yesterday's events pushed me very strongly in that direction, yet today I feel fine mentally and physically (the latter 'fine' tempered by age and bits wearing out ). Psychology is weird!  Or did I mean psychiatry is weird??  xx