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...miles away, I have abandoned everything and come straight here to be with my Dad. I had nowhere to stay but I didn't care. The hospital let me stay in a relatives room for the 4 nights I was there. Then I saw you...god that was so hard..full of tubes and surrounded by machines that bleeped and flashed. I cried and I cried for ages. My Dad, looking asleep, but not asleep. Unaware of what was going on around you. I was scared to hold your hand, scared ...
...it to be. But I did cause even then you still made me feel brave. I spent 4 nights and days living as much as I could by your bedside. I cried and cried and was so very very scared. They told me you would not survive without the dialysis machine filtering and cleaning your blood every 2 hours. They had tried all sorts of drugs to try and 'kickstart' one of your kidneys but it didn't work. Your consultant explained to me in the sweetest way possible ...

HotBabes 16.04.2005 (07.03.2008) · Read full review
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...Bed is perfectly made, and everything is in its place in the room, panic over for a minute....... I now only have one more Room to look in, that is the Bathroom, which is also located on the same floor, just a few yards away, so I casually walk to the door and knock it, and call out....... HELLO MUM..... No Reply...... I knock again, loudly..... No Reply....... I bang the door very loudly........ No Reply...... I have no choice now, I must ...
...a sudden..... TIME STANDS STILL ......AND SO DO I........SHOCKED !!! All I can see, is my poor Mother lying face down in the Bath, totally lifeless, totally naked, totally helpless...... OH NO !!!!... Its probably the most harrowing thing I have ever seen in my Lifetime, it cannot be real, please tell me its not real, Surely she has not been lying in the bath overnight....... but she has..... IT IS VERY REAL.... I cannot help but stand are ...

n13roy 28.07.2006 (28.07.2008) · Read full review
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...time. Again, as with most everything else, given some extra time and encountering enough doors and so on (lol), I started to get better and I wouldn't mix up the difference but I did find it confusing at first. Another basic thing I mixed up was left and right. Another memory I have was of one time when we all had to line up in a big, long circle in the schools gym, the headmaster came in and would say either left or right to each pupil in line ...
...the way to get over everything thats a problem with dyspraxia, or most things anyway, though some things ive still not learnt but hopefully you know what I mean. Gym was still not my favourite class or activity but I generally got by alright. My balance and co-ordination definitely improved during my primary school years, so it wasn't so bad, infact I remember at times I was quite good at lacrosse and basketball. One time I even got what we called ...

IzzyS 19.08.2008 (24.08.2008) · Read full review
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...cry out! After everything that had happened, the waiting, the tears, he was finally here! He was brought round the screen so that we could see him. A feeling of complete and utter love engulfed me as two piercing little blue eyes studied me. Our baby. Our beautiful, perfect, gorgeous little baby. He was whisked away to the baby unit, but returned the next day. Although he was born at 34 weeks, he weighed over eight pounds! My 'little' bundle wasn't ...
...dragons and I think about everything that happened and the path that our lives have taken. I lean down to give him a kiss and whisper "Goodnight, sweetheart". He stirs slightly, putting his arm around my neck to return my kiss. "Goodnight, Mummy" he murmurs, "I love you". And that's when I know. It was all worth it in the end. I finally got my dream baby. ...

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...I came pretty close. Everything seemed to be going well until I started to feel unwell in mid September. I came to the conclusion that I could possibly have problems with my thyroid as it runs in the family, so I made an appointment with the doctor. The doctor examined me, and I remember feeling as if I were going to faint when he told me I was pregnant. I should have felt joyous at such news, but instead I was in shock. It felt so surreal, as if ...
...trying to reassure me that everything would turn out ok, but I just knew they wouldn't. All through the scan I just couldn't stop crying. I thought the agony couldn't possibly get any worse, but then the doctor turned and said "I'm very sorry, but your baby has died". That moment seemed to last a lifetime. I just started to scream at the top of my voice. This couldn't be happening. How could God punish me like this? I was 6 months pregnant - how ...

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Dempsey Devil vs. Naughty Nati: the 20 most irritating things about women This is sort of a stand off challenge between me and another Ciao member. NATI has no doubt written the complete opposite of me, with her version of men. And to fully appreciate this review, you should also take a look at hers with the same title. We would both like to say however, that we are both good friends, and this is only intended as a bit of fun, and not set out to ...
...to have a read of. After you have read this, it might be of interest for you to pop over to NATI, and read her opposite version on men and women. But now back to focusing on my review, and too set the record straight to all you ladies that think the men are the problem! Women and Men have never fully understood each other, and most times, you here on TV, magazines, radio about what women think about what's wrong with men. No matter what a man ...

dempsey_review 17.11.2005 · Read full review
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I've no idea why I have started to write this other than it being a Friday night and I'm not quite tired enough for bed. I guess I hope that in writing this I might help someone out there.... I have a disease, it is chronic and whilst not a given it is often terminal. It has changed who I am perceptively. Whilst it can be managed well it will always lurk and threaten to bring the skies crashing down. It isn't trendy, in fact it bears a huge social ...
...and blush and don't make eye conact, rooms fall silent when I walk in. It is surprising as it is very common, one in ten of us will suffer from it and onset age can vary from around 4 until death. It is also very hard to describe. I suffer from recurring depression. That's my D. My D isn't all that unusual and isn't all that extraordinary but it does shape my life all of it everyday. Whilst they aren't sure when it started the first time I was ...

xxfibeexx 02.12.2006 (03.12.2006) · Read full review
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...and he tried to do everything he could to raise funds and awareness of this terrible disease. Sadly, it was the very last thing he did. Jonny firmly believed that DebRA would one day find a cure for EB but he also knew that it wouldn’t be soon enough to save him. Then we see Jonny with a carer on the train travelling back North and he is very, very ill and sadly died. The final scenes show his funeral which was sad but also a celebration of his ...
...cry and to sing along with the Queen music that Jonny had wanted. The camera looked around the congregation and you could see the admiration for this man called Jonny Kennedy written all over their faces. He left a present and a note for his mam. He left her a tiger brooch – to depict strength and for her to have the strength to carry on. She was relieved that Jonny was finally out of his suffering but also felt guilty because she felt that way. ...

Wearsidelass 26.03.2004 · Read full review
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...there for me she was everything a person could ask for in a Mother. We had our differences as I said before when I was younger but luckily I buried my skeletons years ago and I am sure she buried hers. What she done to me when I was a child has been forgotten and now I have lost her I realise I have not just lost a Mother but a confidante, mate, and one of the very few people in my life I can truly trust to be always there for me, come what may. ...
...there children and I have no doubt she would have done that for me if it had become necessary. My Mother died proud of me and my brother as she told some close family friends only last Friday after paying cash for my Fathers gold watch for their 50th wedding anniversary six weeks away today and I am really upset about that. I live proud of my Mum and proud of the person she was. I am glad I had her as a Mother and now I feel I have lost part of ...

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...stating that you may loose everything written in to it somewhere. Don't expect much help if things do go wrong. I have informed police, trading standards, consumer rights, FSA, Citizens Advice and any other organisation I thought might help. I have even written to newspapers. I may be wrong in the help that you can receive but so far it seems that nobody much is helping me. To be honest though one financial person is doing some research for me as ...
...interested her not for any legal reason. A financial advice firm wanted me to diversify what was left of my monies with them saying I was getting more information about my other share problems than they were. I might have been but I still wanted to see what a professional could do. As I still have some monies I can get no help from my local council about council tax, or from Central government either even with a police crime number. My local padre ...

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...Oh no, we've lost it. Everything goes missing under there. Ah well i can't be bothered any more anyway. It's starting to get cold and it's dark. We both decide to go upstairs. I say goodnight to clive, and jump onto my blanket on top of the wardrobe. As i pad away at the blanket, i watch Clive curl up against mummy. He does look sweet and i do love my little brother. I settle down and as my eyes close, i think about where i can hide from Clive tomorrow.....mmmm ...

wellibelli 01.01.2007 (02.01.2007) · Read full review
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After a recent review of mine about a Scottish beer called Ossian Ale, I was virtually swamped with requests for more information about Scottish beer. When I say swamped, I mean Tange and SueMagee asked. Being the spineless, weak-willed, lily-livered hero that I am, there's no way I'm risking a savaging from the beer monster herself, and as for getting on the wrong side of Sue, well let's just say that she used to be a tax inspector, it doesn't ...
...here beginneth the lesson..... Scottish beer has developed in the particular way it has for many reasons, among which are: The distinctive quality of the local Scottish water, a strong barley growing industry both for beer and whisky, and the good trading links with the former British Empire, Northern Europe and North America. all these factors contribute towards the uniqueness of the Scottish brewing industry. Scotland used to be famous for it's ...

proxam 14.12.2003 (28.08.2004) · Read full review
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I'll give you a disclaimer to begin with (well, that is, I think, the way all the best reviews should begin, with the author more or less abdicating all responsibility). This isn't actually a review of a whole day in my life. Reading about what I get away with passing off as teaching on the average Friday would cause those of you with children to start seriously considering the benefits of a public education. Fret not, though, most teachers aren't ...
...of the more amusing incidents from the course of the year. All are true. Names, however, have been changed to protect the innocent, and the gingers. Also, whilst I'm thinking about it, there's a bit of swearing. If you're offended by that you probably shouldn't read on. *Background* My class this year are a strange wee bunch. There are only 23 of them (which is the smallest class I've ever taught), over half the class are on the Special Needs ...

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"The Internet provides the perfect forum for cyberbullies, individuals whose aim is to gain gratification from the distress caused by provoking and tormenting others. The anonymity, ease of provocation, and almost infinite source of targets means the Internet is full of predators from paedophiles targeting children to serial bullies targeting ... anybody. Cyberbullies get a perverse sense of satisfaction (called gratification) from sending people ...
...whose contents are designed to inflame and enrage. Hate mail is hatred (including prejudice, racism, sexism etc) in an email.Serial bullies, harbour a lot of internal aggression which they direct at others. This may include projection, false criticism and patronising sarcasm whilst contributing nothing of any value. It may also include a common tactic of "a number of people have emailed me backchannel to agree with me". This is standard bully-speak ...

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There was a time when I truly loathed writing. Invariably it would turn out the best piece in the class and having to read it out loud was nothing but sheer humiliation. Although my writing used to flow and I didn’t mind the praise before I was ten, after that it became a burden. It culminated at a History class, at a time when all the class did terribly at a specific exam, and we had to endure a long speech from the tutor. I wasn’t feeling too bad ...
...my teeth and I was happy. Yes I was puzzled, after all I hadn’t studied, but who cared, maybe the teacher didn’t know much herself. And then she turned her wild eyes at me, her cheeks still pink and her hands still lifting up in the air in exasperation: “and you young lady”, she started, “you did not even study for one minute. Yes, you passed! And do you ALL want to know why she’s passed? Because she made it all up so well…she transformed a bloody ...

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