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Originally Posted by Betonov
And now for something completely different: a 7 day bad luck streak finaly reached it's top today. Last monday it was a disaster, tuesday was a shere calamity and on wednesday it just went downhill. And today it hit somewhere between rock-bottom and and a hard place. At least nobody died.... yet
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Actually a good friend of mine I'd known for 18 years died last week of leukaemia (AML) and I can't get to her funeral tomorrow (Inverness
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Not only that but also the week before last one of my daughter's friends (aged 2) was also diagnosed with it (ALL). His GP is being investigated after turning him away several times saying that because he had an appointment booked with a paediatrician (even now it's still two weeks away!) and there was nothing he could do. A midwife friend advised them to go straight to A&E and not leave until a blood test was done, within 30 mins was getting rushed to specialist unit at a hospital about 70 miles away. Once a blood transfusion was done he'd immediately perked up and is now improving all the time.
Now that I've depressed and cheered this thread up, can I ask all who can to donate blood, it's 30 minutes out of your day-to-day life and 10 seconds of slight discomfort, but to someone else it could mean their life!