February 20, 2007

Yoga skills and fireworks

How bizarre. Another bad news evening - more cancer spread, so what else is new - preceded by a gruelling day of scans: a CT scan where they couldn't get the needle in at all, so went for 'option 2', a new one on me, but it's a CT scan without needles, followed by an MRI scan where, also new to me, they put you in this casing, like a suit of armour, before wheeling you back into the machine, and this guy barks at you: breathe in, breathe out, then, 'stop breathing!'. If I had the energy I could have told him he needs lessons with yoga teacher Ayala. Basic yoga lesson no. 1: shouting 'stop breathing!' at someone down a microphone is not the way to make someone hold their breath.

But this is the bizarre part. There are fireworks outside my window now, and I love fireworks.

November 13, 2006

Doctors...

Is it just me or does anybody else find this doctor's comments in the Sunday Times a little chilling? Talking about Kylie's comeback, he says: "is she supposed to sit around and wait for a tumour to come back or what?" You can read it here.

Do the doctors know something we don't? When they say it's treatable, do they just mean: "until it comes back..."