Jane phoned the HOTLINE at the Christie hospital and was advised to cal 999 and get an ambulance to the nearest A&E! Although we live in a fairly remote spot, two full-size ambulances arrived in less than 10 minutes complete with a paramedic. But one morning a woke up with extreme breathlessness – I just couldn’t breath deeply enough. The condition is called Atrial Fibrillation, but as far as I’m concerned I haven’t noticed much difference. No, the most recent problem has involved my heart, with an irregular heartbeat which showed up about a year ago pssably as a reaction to some of the chemo I’ve had over recent years. However,this is still not a cure at some point it will show up again and will need confronting yet again. This, although pretty arduous, resulted in success as I achieved remission after only four of the six chemo seessions planned – so far so good. After the Lymphoma came back for thethird time in October 2018 I was swiftly put on a programme of chemotherapy (see the previouus couple of TOC posts). Topic of Cancer? Well on the cancer front I had a a session of chemo back in February tthat went off a bit like a damp firework! It did a bit of good, but I reacted to it which probably led on to a heart condition call Atrial Fibrillation. JJjohn.hargreaves Leave a comment A Stroke of Genius And if you haven’t laughed like that since the 80”s, YOU ARE A SAD B****** and you need to GET A LIFE…….! Find that Billy Connolly clip on iPlayer or whatever. Waste of effort! Find your reward in family, friends, experience! Sugar, salt, flavour, wine! Good-times! And helping people get good stuff done. Some of us have sucked the sweetness, the flavour, the texture, the essence out of life, for what? To prolong health, fitness, age. We ‘ve forgotten, in the midst of our trails and woes that life IS bloody funny and must NEVER be taken too seriously. Why don’t we do that anymore? It’s such a liberating experience. And suddenly I’m clear and laughing achingly, gloriously, and genuinely. Pure magic! I laughed until I cried, until I coughed and spluttered bringing up sputum samples that the doctors have awaited these long months. You know the one about the ‘big slipper’ and the in continence pants? I’ve seen it SOO many times, even seen him do it live. Funny thing, the other evening, I’m randomly watching T V and on comes an repeat of Billy Connolly “(…An audience with….)” at the height of his powers, I guess sometime in the late 80’s.

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