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Right, having dealt with the unpleasant events of fact number 9 let’s move on to the rather lighter events of fact number 10. You’ve probably gathered by now that I was a skinny child although Mum always tried to persuade me that ‘slim’ was a much more attractive word. When I was 11, during my [...]

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Over optimism strikes again…

I was possibly being a little unrealistic when I said I’d get back to proper posting today. The combination of pain killers and drugs for certain other problems are proving to be a rather powerful cocktail. To use a clumsy metaphor, proof if it were needed that my brain isn’t functioning properly, my train of [...]

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Yet another unexpected absence…

Hello everyone, once again I’ve been ambushed by health issues and have been away for a while. On Sunday what I thought was going to be be brief visit to my local GP out of hours service ended up with an immediate admission to hospital. Even after I’d been put on a ward I expected [...]

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Part of this story is quite serious, it was one of the worst times of my tenth year and demonstrates the parlous state of child psychology in the 60s. After a couple of months being molested every weekend I reacted by becoming a bed wetter. I had absolutely no history of night time accidents since [...]

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I had a highly productive day yesterday. I spent three hours in hospital finally having the physical evidence of being used as a sixteen year old human yo-yo removed. It was my first experience of undergoing surgery while still awake, although quite heavily sedated, and it was very strange listening to the surgeon and the [...]

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The next morning I was given two envelopes, one addressed to my Games Master and one addressed to the Headmaster. The one to the Headmaster went to his secretary of course one could hardly expect the man himself to take notice of the trivial matter of a broken Fourth Former. Delivering the other letter to [...]

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We finally got in to see the doctor and I was asked to do my customary underpants only performance. I’d looked up scoliosis and didn’t like what I’d read so I sort of forgot to mention it to my parents, hoping that it would go away. It hadn’t gone away, it was the first thing [...]

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I was beginning to hate being 15. It seemed that when it suited my parents and School Masters I was expected to behave like an adult but when it came to decision making I was immediately returned to childhood status and denied a voice in things that affected my life. I bemoaned that fact to [...]

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After another long wait my name was finally called and I was escorted into the august presence of the Consultant. Like so many men of his station he had the sort of demeanour that made a boy automatically call him Sir. It seemed that I was the victim of serious disinformation as far as procedures [...]

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After what felt like miles of corridor the nurse stopped outside a door, pushed it open and ordered me inside with the instruction “There’s a gown in there, take everything off, put the gown on then go out the other door”. “What?” I squeaked “Everything?”. “Yes, everything now get a move on!” “But I’m only [...]

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