Parents: can't live with them... #2

Mothers the universe over have the inability to believe their children grow up. I think even Martian mothers say to their adult offspring "Now dear, I'm sure you don't hold your ray gun like that. Do it properly...".

And, true to form, even though sibling Wallop-wallop and I are, ahem, well never mind how old, the Matriarch still likes to protect her "little things"... So when she said "Your dad's going into hospital on the 8th" she missed out nearly the entire story: ie. neglecting to mention it was just for a chat with the specialist!

For goodness sake.

Any road up, Aged Pa is due in to have plumbing chopped out and the ends joined together again on July the 20th.

But the main issue is that the docs won't know how far gone the cancer is until it's lifted out and looked at. This is despite having apparently classic symptoms for a year or more that were dismissed by the nob-head Dr Martin (you know who you are!). If it wasn't for the superb, foreign, locum they happened to see one day we might all have been ignorant of the whole thing until it was far too late!

For fuck's sake!

Well, be thankful for the good things I suppose...


Ps. Of course, on the evening of the 7th the Radio 4 Moral Maze was all about a guy with colon cancer and should he get expensive drugs or not. Niiiice...