OG’s chemo was cancelled yesterday due to his blood levels being too low. He had a transfusion instead and today he has been bouncing around like a two year old. In fact I could almost say he is back to his “old self”!
This afternoon we went to buy some more paint. The car is not always a good place for us to be together on account of the fact that when he is well he likes to drive and when he drives he frightens the life out of me.
After one particularly dangerous manoeuvre I hear him mutter
“Oh shut up”
“Don’t tell me to shut up”
“Well you are getting on my nerves”
“I’M getting on YOUR nerves? How dare YOU tell ME off when YOU are frightening ME to death. It should be ME shouting at YOU, not YOU shouting at ME”.
“I didn’t shout at you”
“You did. I sometimes don’t know what planet you live on, YOU drive like a lunatic and shout at ME for being scared. Oh! I'm so sorry, I forgot, it's all my fault! You’re totally barking mad”
“Will you just listen to yourself? It’s you that is doing the shouting, not me”
“Oh shut up”
“Don’t you ever, ever come in the car with me again”
“Well then, you will have to remind me of that, because I just sooo love to be with you when you’re driving”
“No need to be sarcastic”
We driving on for a while in amiable silence, then he speaks
“It’s a lot cleaner isn’t it?”
“What’s a lot cleaner?”
“That place where you where”
“What place?”
“The room you were in”
“What room?”
By this time we are screaming at each other again
“The fucking room downstairs in the new fucking building”
“Well why didn’t you say that in the beginning”
“It’s a lot cleaner isn’t it?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t notice”
By this time we have drawn up at the Dulux Decorator’s Centre. Ahhhh! It’s not the DULUX Decorator's Centre, it’s the CROWN Decorator’s Centre. Unfortunately we must have Dulux to match existing, Crown paint just simply will not do. Back to the drawing board. Hush my mouth, who was it said this was the DULUX Decorator's Centre, surely not me? Less said the better! Still, look on the bright side, it passed away a pleasant hour together. And in the famous words of Scarlett O'hara "tomorrow is another day". We will venture out to the DULUX supplier in the morning, by that time we may have recovered from todays' traumatic adventures. This time I will do the driving!
On to more normal stuff. A young student that worked for us in his holidays is taking part in the 2008 Mongol Rally that starts on the 19TH July leaving Hyde Park, London, heading over 10,000 miles to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The idea is to raise as much money as possible for charity by driving an old banger through some of the most remote areas of the world. Anyone that would interested can read all the details and donate sponsorship money at
http://www.willwemakeit.com/genghiskhant.
Good luck Matt, we are all rooting for you.
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