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...cooking , cleaning , doing everything for me and i was going to the hospital every day to see rob .Well he got better and was aloud home . Still my son looked after both of us, but it had done something to Rob he became very mean and he started arguing with my son. All the help he had given us,it was not on John didn't deserve this, so we moved back to Grantham,( where i still live) we moved in with his mum, who looked after us very well, this must ...
...in for a week as everything went ok. I asked Rob if he would be there this time but nope he wasn't, i had made my mind up if i was going to be on my own i might as well live on my own . So i told him the day i had my right leg off it was over. He would not leave so i moved into a flat on my own and started to live my life the best way i could . I was going out every sat night with a few of my friends . I thought i would be on my own forever who would ...

pinkpeglegs 23.11.2005 · Read full review
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...was actually able to keep everything down and in no time at all i felt like my old self again and because i felt so well i didnt worry about the blood tests i had done. Four days after i had my tests done i had not heard anything from the doctors surgery so i just assumed everything was fine and thought no more about it but three days later the reseptionist called to say my results were back and i needed to see the doctor which then started to worry ...
...they had managed to take everything away that was in my womb which made me feel alot easier. On day two of my hospital visit came the big news that my results were back from the lab. The tests showed that i a mild form of cancer which could be treated with laser treatment which i had to have once every four months i also had to have smear tests every six months until my cells returned to their normal selves. It took me a year and a half of treatment ...

yabbis21 23.04.2006 · Read full review
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Not that long ago , one Friday evening , I was having a shower after one of my usual hectic days when I found a lump in my breast . I hadn't been looking for it , believe me , it was just … there .. when I was whizzing quickly over with the shower gel . I don't know if maybe the slippiness of the gel made it more obvious , but it was a definite hard lump , roughly the size of a pea , right on the top section on the right hand side . Now , I never ...
...wouldn't know " it " if I found " it " , and that " it " would never happen to me anyway , so what was the point ? Yeah , right ! So now here I was , standing in the shower one perfectly ordinary Friday evening , frozen with shock ( and rapidly getting bloody cold into the bargain ! ) My mind a total blank I got out of the shower .. I don't remember getting dried and changed into cosy PJ's and my favourite fluffy dressing gown …I went downstairs ...

Janej47 28.10.2005 · Read full review
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...She just looks incredible in everything but for two examples watch her in Swimming Pool and 8 Women. · What book would you like to see adapted into a film? Two choices here… Mark Frost's 'List of Seven', a crime thriller involving Conan Doyle and a mystical mystery set in the early 1900's and China Mieville's 'King Rat' a modern mystery set in a London just below the streets with some rather unusual characters. I don't think there is a chance either ...
...add in any book by Matthew Reilly. His books are like action movies as it is and I would love to see one of them transferred to a big screen. Now onto the quick fire section of the Q&A Favourite…… · Action/Adventure Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) . Bruce Willis as an earthy New York cop who while visiting his wife one Christmas finds himself the only one who can stop a group of terrorists in a skyscraper. The thrill a minute simplicity of this ...

Ailran 24.09.2006 · Read full review
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***UPDATE - Anyone that has already read this, I have added a few pictures. *** Ok, this is a hard one. Forgive me if I ramble on a bit , or go off on tangents. The best thing I could think of that starts with a C is my daughter, Courtney. Courtney was born on 27 August 1992. I was the ripe old age of nineteen at the time! She weighed 6lbs 11oz, and was perfect. I did the usual check of fingers and toes - all there. The paediatrician at the hospital ...
...off we went home. Things all seemed fine at first - watching her grow was a pleasure, seeing how much she learned a joy. Then I began to notice things weren’t quite right. Her speech was laboured, she was clumsy, she constantly leaned on the furniture to get around and she could not run or kick a ball. She could read the alphabet, name lots of colours and shapes, and was very good at counting, so these other things seemed odd to me. Whenever I raised ...

sunnyfox 25.09.2003 (11.12.2003) · Read full review
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So I don't know if you saw it, but I went on Parkinson the other week. I've never really rated that guy as highly as everyone else does, but my agent seemed to think that it might get me some good exposure and I'd get a whole bunch more Ciao community points, so I said what the hell, I can go to a cool party tomorrow instead, and agreed to go on the show if it made the old codger happy. So I get to the studio and meet Parky before the show and we ...
...that I want to spice up the show by doing some crazy shit like getting up out of my chair (!) and running around the studio a bit, like a loony. Parky tells me that this is not permitted: only Billy Connolly and Robbie Williams are allowed to do wacky shit like that, he says, and points to the PAs of said celebrities, who are sat in the audience with rifles trained on my head and holding a sign that says, in red crayon "STAY IN YOR SEET!". Who'd've ...

robbo2000 13.03.2006 (14.03.2006) · Read full review
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...and we used to do everything together. He was, and in my opinion still is, a top bloke who most people would be proud to have as a friend. Quite a few years back now, my mate asked me to lend him £30 for something or other and I willingly helped out even though I was a bit tight for cash myself at the time. He promised he'd drop the money back to me a few days later but never showed and for some reason I took it really personally and we ended up ...
...my own and I owe everything that I am to the people I've known and loved, and will continue to develop as a human being with every new person I meet. KIDS - I've got 4, with number 5 due in September and I love them all dearly. Ranging from 1 year old to 18, I have 3 children with my ex-wife and 2 (albeit with one of them literally being in the pipeline) with my current partner. Every day is a journey of exploration and new ideas, and there's no ...

paulmiceli 25.04.2006 · Read full review
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...tattoo, a number that meant everything to one generation and nothing to another. She stood quietly for several minutes, eyes closed by the weight of her memories with tears rolling down her worn face. At last she turned and sat back down in the wheelchair. "I have said my goodbyes Ibrahim, it's time to go home now." "OK Grandmother, let me settle you back in the car." The family climbed back into the car and they swept away in a flurry of early ...

JeffFromPoole 28.01.2007 · Read full review
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...of group this was. Was everything OK and what sort of people were they? Yet I've always had an "each to their own" philosophy. If, at this point, I had known what I now do, I would have put that philosophy on temporary hold and told her bluntly and forcefully to get out of there - fast. But I didn't know. So I smiled, listened graciously to her story and then told her how glad I was that she'd found a new direction. If it made her happy, that was ...
...People seemed to passively accept everything that was said, even if it was utterly at variance with science. Worse, I saw one of the members of the group who had been, in some way, "disobedient". The pastor took him outside. Before he could conceal it from me, his kind and pleasant face underwent a hideous change. He threatened the terrified lad with terrible, frightening punishment if he ever did anything of the kind again. (I never did find out ...

PDS1 21.01.2006 (22.01.2006) · Read full review
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'''Don't get any big ideas...''' Ladies and gents, we're increasingly becalmed in a world of spiralling fuel prices, cast adrift in a time of seismic depreciation in the values of the houses we slaved for, and partaking of an era where we're almost nostalgic for the days when pondering how come so many folk liked Oasis was the worst of our worries. But fretteth ye not. I have made a discovery that will see us all back onto Easy Street. And, entirely ...
...on grass. It's very simple. People will pay the best part of fifty quid to stand on a bit of lawn and hold loud conversations with their mates. I'm amazed nobody has noticed before...they are shouting because if they didn't, said mates would be unable to hear them owing to the huge sound system blasting out music nearby. Of course, anything else 'nearby' (I am here using the short-range variant of nearby, rather than the medium-to-long range one ...

greenierexyboy 27.06.2008 · Read full review
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I myself have only been a member of Ciao for a short time, but in that time have learnt quite a bit, not only about writing reviews, but also about the other Ciao members. Recently I have seen many reviews about Ciao, in particular it's members and how they behave (or shouldn't) more to the point. Quite often the review outlines how people should go about their 'Ciaoing'. Now, we are all entitled to our opinion, and so I thought that I would express ...
...voiced on Ciao before. That does not mean to say that it hasn't been, I must confess that I have not read anywhere near all of the reviews relating to this subject. Ciao is a Community. According to the dictionary this means, 'an organised social body of any people having work interests etc. in common'. Right Ok, so Ciao is obviously the common interest here. But, where did it say that we all behave like robots? In my mind, a community is made ...

kimp123 01.12.2005 · Read full review
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This review has been "re-cycled" following a most extraordinary experience this evening. Poking around on the internet, looking for something else entirely, I came across a very good website for Great Uncle Bill's old Club. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to name it here - but with apologies to the current members I have "lifted" a couple of interior photos from their site and I'll explain to you why! Towards the bottom of this review, there ...
...a few drinks at the "Club" are referred to. Indeed, before his fateful visit to the police station, he was playing pool on the very table shown in the photograph! It is well over a quarter of a century since I last set foot in the place shown in those pictures at the foot of the page. The memories have come flooding back, memories of the many characters propping up that bar - prime amongst them Bill and Gwen. The club itself looks (on the inside) ...

RICHADA 18.04.2005 (28.09.2006) · Read full review
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...you will then be omitting everything from oboes to horns to piano. "In fact orchestral is probabally wrong as that would exclude string quartets which are also included in it." (Champ666) But anyhoops this neatly brings me to orchestration. When you think about it, instrumentation is a big part of how we perceive music. Here's a comparison I've used several times. What if a composer decides to write a piece of music for electric guitars with a pop-type ...
...say that includes just about everything that would usually pop into mind. Since Jesi is here obviously referring to music not only from the so-called "Classical period", I had to follow up on the idea that a classical piece has to have at least two movements, which is not entirely accurate. Symphonic poems for instance are usually constructed as one movement works and even symphonies like Barber's First and Sibelius' Seventh have distinct "sections" ...

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...chatting to him as if everything was okay, at the end of our chat he thanked me for brightening up his day! On another occasion when sam was in the neonatal unit for a month I chatted to a dear old lady every day for about 3 weeks, I looked forward to seeing her as she was truly lovely, I knew she had cancer and I knew she was dying but it still did not stop me from becoming friends with her. We used to chat about sam and how he was doing and we ...
...play with him as if everything was okay, do you know how hard that must've been for her? I think in todays world everyone is in such a hurry or too scared to talk to strangers now in case they get mugged or worse which is really very sad but I think even if just one person makes an effort it counts. So if you see someone stood outside a hospital with the world on their shoulders ot their hearts breaking say hi or smile because it will remind them ...

cleanfreakmama 07.06.2007 · Read full review
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...when I thought I had everything going right for me in my life All I ever wanted was to be happy and with a man I truly loved and trusted and who loved and trusted me back and that is what I have with Paul the love of my life. So what is my problem this time you may be thinking...? Its took me over five minutes to carry on writing to you, to pluck up those horrible words that I need to put down on paper, the word that I dread and hate so much, I ...
...man in my brain contradicting everything that I am thinking, I am saying one thing and he is saying another. AAAAAAAAHHHHHH BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS.... CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER......IM SHOUTING AS I TYPE... I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, AND I HATE YOU. I said it. Ok. So what now, what do I do, what can I do. I don't feel much better ...

trailertramp 19.08.2005 · Read full review
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