I always like the way Andrew says "Stuffs" referring to minor tasks or items and have used it now in family settings. It's far, far better than the singular "stuff". Apologies to so many of you for what Blogger does to your comments. I just went through Blogger Jail and rescued so many of your comments on my blog which were trashed without rhyme nor reason - many of you frequent bloggers. I will try and make an effort to make this part of my routine now - checking the blog comments.
As to other stuffs, I've been busy writing an article for a magazine based in England. It's about my mother's experience with birthing which was an absolute hell of a torturous experience for her. More on that later.
The other bits of writing is my own memoir of a period in my life where the participants and identifiers are now all passed on so I am free to write about it.
More is editing of a anthology which is hard going. Some of the writing is great, others not so much and requires far too much extensive editing. And this I find exhausting and maddening which is not good for my innards.
I waited and am waiting today for a call from my nephrologist to follow up on recent lab work. Nada. Already an hour has gone by and here I am, trapped, writing the blog, neglecting leaving as I have my own on line lab-work results in front of me and I have a myriad of questions on the line items ticked for "not normal". I imagine elders (and I have anecdotal evidence) are shoved aside in a stretched health care system that focuses on the more viable of its patients.*
I am reading Richard Flanagan, an Australian author I have fallen in love with. His writing is superb.
Question Seven was my introduction
And now I am reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
I hope to read all of his oeuvre. At times he is lyrical.
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*update she did call and apologised for delay. Amongst other stuffs I have to go to hospital for more blood infusions. I've been struggling with exhaustion and putting it down to old age. Relieved it's not that.
Yay for health problems with a solution!
ReplyDeleteEditing is hard - for patience and innards alike ;) you have my sympathy.
It sucks diesel as they say, Charlotte. I am exhausted even after one segment of awful writing. Often having to repeat and repeat the editing.
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I am sure we'd all be interested in reading the article you are writing for the English magazine. Maybe you'll share it with us? Hugs - David
ReplyDeleteI will David, for sure.
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Good to hear you will have some answers to your health issues soon. It is so easy to assume that old age is the culprit! My sister thought that was why she was so tired, found out it was a very treatable cancer, caught in early stages. Whew.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sue, we tend to put too much down to our years when it can be anything but. So glad to hear about your sister. I've had to have infusions before so I should have copped on. The iron pills don't cut it after a while.
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I'm glad you have the option of infusions to help, fatigue is so insidious.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if it's "lucky" but I find it amazing that the person who writes gets to be the last one standing and can actually take the opportunity to tell the story
It is amazing in a way Kylie but sometimes there are reasons when others don't want to go public. Fear usually and public censure.
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I'm so sorry you're stuck waiting for that call from the nephrologist; that feeling of being trapped when you have questions about "not normal" lab results is genuinely maddening and stressful. Hang in there. On a positive note, your writing about your mother's experience sounds incredibly powerful, and that memoir project sounds liberating! Good luck with the anthology editing; it sounds exhausting. www.melodyjacob.com
ReplyDeleteI need to be more disciplined Melody. And hard jobs need to be tackled a little bit at a time. I am hoping for a little bit of incentive to wend its way to me.
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I am sorry you are going through this. Best of luck at hospital and I hope you feel better soon.
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