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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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I've never seen it Uki, so I've missed out. I'm still miffed my mam wouldn't let me go to see The Exorcist when I was 13. I'd got all dolled up to look much older, but she got wind of what I was up to and put the mockers on.
Having seen it on DVD a few times since, I probably saved a few quid of my spend, as I never found it particularly scary. Mind, us vampires aren't easily frightened xxx
Lordy. The only time I've done that was after seeing Psycho on the telly. I was about 8, my dad was on nights and mam had gone to bed, so I snuck downstairs to watch it with my older sister and brother. I pretended it hadn't had any effect but later, sweating profusely with terror, I made a quick leap into my sister's bed and clamped onto her for the rest of the night.
She wasn't best pleased but didn't dob me in, most likely to stop herself from getting done as mam would have gone off the deep end. Bonkers, the things we remember xxx
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