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turpsI suspect a nap may be in my future today as I was awake far too early. That wasn't helped by having mild indigestion, which had to have been caused by a pasta bake I'd made for tea, so strike that off the list of meals to make.
The ceiling in the toilet looks terrible now. The downstairs toilet is on the side of the house and it caught the brunt of the heavy rain for nearly two days solid. That was also the place we had the wasps nest, so I suspect that weakened the structure so yesterday we had to make a hole to drain the pooling water before the whole lot came down. Thankfully with it being such a small space it shouldn't take long to re-plaster, but of course, it's pointless doing that until the gap is sealed that let the water in in the first place. So, for now, there's a pan in the toilet catching any stray drips as it's still raining today, though thankfully, nowhere near as heavy.
James finally got his hospital telephone appointment yesterday. He was at work at the time but they allowed him to stay in an empty room in the hour the consultant was supposed to ring. The conclusion was the pain he's feeling is scarring left from the kidney stones so the consultant is going to tell James' doctor to put him on the powerful antibiotics for a month, but if that doesn't work he needs to be referred to the pain clinic. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that as he's already on a cocktail of powerful morphine-based controlled drugs along with a load of others, and any changes always come along with side effects as they try to achieve a new balance.
Yesterday I read Wanna Tell Me About It? bypensnest. It's a very lovely and engaging Lance Bass/Adam Lambert story that's nicely long, so I spent many happy hours reading as the rain lashed down outside. Apart from what I've seen on my flist and a few Glee and Queen based performances I don't really know Adam, or his friends, that well. But that didn't matter at all, the story still pulled me in and held on until the end. So yes, I recommend it.
We also watched the last episode of It's a Sin last night.
First, wow, that show is powerful. It also broke my heart over and over again.
Watching it was hard to believe that things like that happened in my lifetime. So many men dying, having to lie to get a mortgage, pushed aside and treated disgracefully when they needed to be cared for. I was only young when this was happening, but can very vaguely remember the don't die of ignorance campaign, which was still just as chilling when I looked up the advert.
Colin especially broke me, he was so good and finally finding himself and he didn't deserve that, none of them did. I did love his mam though and how she had his back always.
Kayleigh posted about the show on her FB, saying how she hated Ritchie's mam, and I got it. I really did. I did have conflicted feelings through a lot of the episode because she acted disgracefully once she knew he had AIDS, taking him back home and pushing away all of his friends. But I thought, would I be tempted to do the same if it was my son? And the answer is, yeah, I would want him with me, so I get that compulsion to care for him, but the rest was unacceptable, the lying to Jill and especially to Ritchie, saying his friends were busy when he obviously needed them. So I had some sympathy, until the meeting with Jill at the seafront and all sympathy was gone in a moment. I knew Ritchie wasn't going to survive, but the way his mam so casually said he'd died the day before. No, that was wrong. So wrong on any level. Even thinking about it now gives me chills.
The end was so horribly realistic too, the moments when you're happy until you're not and find yourself crying again. Trying to remember good times while your heart is breaking.
The show really was good, powerful, funny, heartbreaking, frustrating. It made me laugh and made me cry and when it finished completely when Everybody Hurts played over the titles, we just sat in silence for a while.
So yeah, I recommend watching but know going in, if you do it's often hard going, especially so as when you watch it's impossible not to think, this really happened. And that it did is a disgrace.
Not a spoiler, the It's a Sin soundtrack on Spotify
The ceiling in the toilet looks terrible now. The downstairs toilet is on the side of the house and it caught the brunt of the heavy rain for nearly two days solid. That was also the place we had the wasps nest, so I suspect that weakened the structure so yesterday we had to make a hole to drain the pooling water before the whole lot came down. Thankfully with it being such a small space it shouldn't take long to re-plaster, but of course, it's pointless doing that until the gap is sealed that let the water in in the first place. So, for now, there's a pan in the toilet catching any stray drips as it's still raining today, though thankfully, nowhere near as heavy.
James finally got his hospital telephone appointment yesterday. He was at work at the time but they allowed him to stay in an empty room in the hour the consultant was supposed to ring. The conclusion was the pain he's feeling is scarring left from the kidney stones so the consultant is going to tell James' doctor to put him on the powerful antibiotics for a month, but if that doesn't work he needs to be referred to the pain clinic. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that as he's already on a cocktail of powerful morphine-based controlled drugs along with a load of others, and any changes always come along with side effects as they try to achieve a new balance.
Yesterday I read Wanna Tell Me About It? by
pensnest. It's a very lovely and engaging Lance Bass/Adam Lambert story that's nicely long, so I spent many happy hours reading as the rain lashed down outside. Apart from what I've seen on my flist and a few Glee and Queen based performances I don't really know Adam, or his friends, that well. But that didn't matter at all, the story still pulled me in and held on until the end. So yes, I recommend it.We also watched the last episode of It's a Sin last night.
First, wow, that show is powerful. It also broke my heart over and over again.
Watching it was hard to believe that things like that happened in my lifetime. So many men dying, having to lie to get a mortgage, pushed aside and treated disgracefully when they needed to be cared for. I was only young when this was happening, but can very vaguely remember the don't die of ignorance campaign, which was still just as chilling when I looked up the advert.
Colin especially broke me, he was so good and finally finding himself and he didn't deserve that, none of them did. I did love his mam though and how she had his back always.
Kayleigh posted about the show on her FB, saying how she hated Ritchie's mam, and I got it. I really did. I did have conflicted feelings through a lot of the episode because she acted disgracefully once she knew he had AIDS, taking him back home and pushing away all of his friends. But I thought, would I be tempted to do the same if it was my son? And the answer is, yeah, I would want him with me, so I get that compulsion to care for him, but the rest was unacceptable, the lying to Jill and especially to Ritchie, saying his friends were busy when he obviously needed them. So I had some sympathy, until the meeting with Jill at the seafront and all sympathy was gone in a moment. I knew Ritchie wasn't going to survive, but the way his mam so casually said he'd died the day before. No, that was wrong. So wrong on any level. Even thinking about it now gives me chills.
The end was so horribly realistic too, the moments when you're happy until you're not and find yourself crying again. Trying to remember good times while your heart is breaking.
The show really was good, powerful, funny, heartbreaking, frustrating. It made me laugh and made me cry and when it finished completely when Everybody Hurts played over the titles, we just sat in silence for a while.
So yeah, I recommend watching but know going in, if you do it's often hard going, especially so as when you watch it's impossible not to think, this really happened. And that it did is a disgrace.
Not a spoiler, the It's a Sin soundtrack on Spotify
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Date: 2021-02-04 03:30 pm (UTC)And ugh that sounds annoying about the leak
Ouch that does sound like it’s so heavy. I’ll probably watch it at some point but not for awhile until I’m in the right mindset
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Date: 2021-02-04 04:43 pm (UTC)The leak was very frustrating. I mean, in terms of where it happened it's probably the best place but I could have done without it.
Yeah, it's brilliant tv but it will break your heart over and over.
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Date: 2021-02-06 01:16 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about the rain damage! What an absolute pain!
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Date: 2021-02-06 01:27 pm (UTC)I hope you manage to get the leaks fixed soon, so frustrating for you.
Crossing all fingers that the antibiotics finally do the trick for James, that sounds completely miserable for him
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Date: 2021-02-06 03:54 pm (UTC)That's so sad about your mum's friend, I'm not surprised she reacted with anger. Having that personal connection and understanding of what was happening on screen must have amplified every feeling.
Sadly the leak is much worse, coming in in three different places now. But, we've got someone coming to check the roof tomorrow. I really hope he can fix it, even if it's just a temp job for now as the forecast is constant rain for a while yet.
We're both hoping the antibiotics help, messing with his meds is always a last resort.
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Date: 2021-02-06 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm keeping everything crossed the antibiotics will help James!
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Date: 2021-02-08 04:53 am (UTC)I hope the antibiotics will do James good.
And yes, Pen's fic is so fun! I really liked how she showed both Lance and Adam changing and growing as part of being together.
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Date: 2021-02-11 01:42 pm (UTC)James is still waiting for his antibiotics, he got the letter from the hospital consultant so the doctor should have a copy too by now. So, maybe by tomorrow.
I agree. It was great seeing Lance and Adam change and grow. It was such a good read.
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Date: 2021-02-11 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-11 01:45 pm (UTC)James just got the letter from his consultant yesterday so his doctor should have got one the same day saying to prescribe the antibiotics. You'd think the consultant could write a script himself but it seems not. If he could it would have saved a lot of time.