Kick, kick, yay!

My gran does not want my parents to say good-bye when they leave. She keeps whispering through tears to just go - to drop her car off and leave the keys in the ignition, and just go. This woman has spent her life caring my grandfather who had MS and raising 5 kids, 1 of which has a learning disability. All the family are doing their best to get her and my Aunt out of the country but there are many complications and it's taking lots of time. I don't understand why she's going through this, but I do thank her for passing along the 'fighter' gene to me.

My flatmate's mother had a rare type cancer a few years back but luckily the best doctors managed to remove it. Unfortunately this week we found out it has returned. Fortunately it seems to be in the early stages so an operation and chemotherapy should cure it. I'm so glad we had that holiday to Switzerland! Please say a prayer.

Suffice to say I will not leaving Edinburgh just yet.

How damn lucky am I to be getting such a thorough and interesting education from the Master of Life itself!?! I wouldn't swap it for the world, though this week hiding under my duvet is my occupation of choice. And ofcourse reverting to survival mode .... cartoon vision is a life-saver!