Last week I wrote about meeting Lily for tea and conversation. I enjoy our occasional meetings and while I am more than old enough to be Lily's mother I hope she thinks of me as a friend. We talk of many things, sometimes it might be Lily talking about what it is like being a medical student and what she would like to specialized in once she is qualified, while on other occasions I may do most of the talking such as when telling her about what it was like being a patient in a psychiatric hospital.
Recently, we have often talked about her wedding and trying to make arrangements for it while studying medicine. That was a subject on Friday's agenda and it was what prompted my post about reminiscences of planning my own wedding. Therefore, you can imagine my shock when I read an email from Lily today telling me that her fiancé had decided that he didn't want to be with her any more; that he didn't love her.
I have spoken to Lily today, and I offered to be the person who broke the news to the blogging world. In her email, Lily had said that she didn't know how she was going to raise the subject on her blog, so I am doing it for her.
Lily has exams next week and needs to try to concentrate her mind on revising for them so she won't be blogging for a few days. Let us hope that this bad news doesn't impact on how Lily does in her exams.
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Monday, 22 March 2010
Friday, 29 January 2010
Out To Lunch
It was another bad night for sleep although I'm not at all surprised. I am planning an early night for later which will have all the things that should ensure a good night's sleep; hot bath, hot chocolate and sleep medication.
I have decided that it was just not worth my while busting a gut to get the final assignment of my OU course done for midday. I tried several attempts at writing the required short story, but nothing was very good and all were far short of the word count required. I just have to accept that I did the course at a bad time. How was I to know that I would have a mammoth period of depression which would delay me starting the course and as a result I have never been able to tackle it with anything like the enthusiasm that was required.
So, in order to make sure that I don't just sit here moping all day I have phoned Lily and we are going to meet up for lunch. This will make a change from our usual cup of tea and it means that I can have a long chat with her. I can get up to date with how her current placement is going and what she is going to be doing next. I will probably also get an update on what the ferrets have been up to.
While I was trying to pass the hours when sleep would not come I started work on another post in the Tackling the Mental Health Minefield series and another one on a subject that I have never covered before but which is pretty topical at the moment. Hopefully they should both be published later today.
I have decided that it was just not worth my while busting a gut to get the final assignment of my OU course done for midday. I tried several attempts at writing the required short story, but nothing was very good and all were far short of the word count required. I just have to accept that I did the course at a bad time. How was I to know that I would have a mammoth period of depression which would delay me starting the course and as a result I have never been able to tackle it with anything like the enthusiasm that was required.
So, in order to make sure that I don't just sit here moping all day I have phoned Lily and we are going to meet up for lunch. This will make a change from our usual cup of tea and it means that I can have a long chat with her. I can get up to date with how her current placement is going and what she is going to be doing next. I will probably also get an update on what the ferrets have been up to.
While I was trying to pass the hours when sleep would not come I started work on another post in the Tackling the Mental Health Minefield series and another one on a subject that I have never covered before but which is pretty topical at the moment. Hopefully they should both be published later today.
Friday, 15 January 2010
Buying A Suit And Afternoon Tea With Lily
I don't have any work-type clothes. It's almost three years since I had to give up work and I'm afraid that none of the clothes that I used to wear to work fit me anymore. This wouldn't be too much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that I have applied for a job and I know that I am going to get an interview for it because they sent me an email earlier in the week asking if I was still interested in the job because I was a very strong candidate for it based on my application form.
It's best not to turn up for an interview wearing jeans and a T-shirt which is pretty much what I am dressed in most of the time. I do have a couple of pairs of decent trousers, and some reasonable blouses and jumpers that are fine to wear to work, but I know that it would be best to wear a suit for an interview. And yesterday's email from the Shadow Health Secretary inviting me to round table discussions at the House of Commons means that I ought to be dressed in something half decent on that day too.
The answer was a trip to my nearest shopping centre with a Marks and Spencer so that I could see what they had that might be suitable. It didn't have too much difficulty finding a jacket and trousers in the right sizes so I now have a nice navy blue suit, and three new blouses to wear with it too (one white, one blue, and one pink which is not a colour that I wear often).
I bought a few more bits and pieces (not clothes) that I need in some of the other shops in the shopping centre and then it was off to the cafe to wait for Lily as we were going to meet for afternoon tea. We spent nearly two hours in each others company, drank two cups of tea each, and chatted non-stop. Lots of the talk was about plans for her wedding, but we also talked about what she has been learning about at uni this week. There were a few laughs when she was talking about medical students who are embarrassed by the lectures on certain parts of the body and how they are functioning, and one can't help wondering how these students are going to react when they are doctors and have to talk to patients about slightly embarrassing things. Surely they've thought about it before they went to medical school, but perhaps they haven't.
I am now back home and thinking about getting myself something to eat before sitting down for the evening with my feet up and maybe doing some knitting while I watch television. And just in case you hadn't realised, yes I am feeling a bit better today.
It's best not to turn up for an interview wearing jeans and a T-shirt which is pretty much what I am dressed in most of the time. I do have a couple of pairs of decent trousers, and some reasonable blouses and jumpers that are fine to wear to work, but I know that it would be best to wear a suit for an interview. And yesterday's email from the Shadow Health Secretary inviting me to round table discussions at the House of Commons means that I ought to be dressed in something half decent on that day too.
The answer was a trip to my nearest shopping centre with a Marks and Spencer so that I could see what they had that might be suitable. It didn't have too much difficulty finding a jacket and trousers in the right sizes so I now have a nice navy blue suit, and three new blouses to wear with it too (one white, one blue, and one pink which is not a colour that I wear often).
I bought a few more bits and pieces (not clothes) that I need in some of the other shops in the shopping centre and then it was off to the cafe to wait for Lily as we were going to meet for afternoon tea. We spent nearly two hours in each others company, drank two cups of tea each, and chatted non-stop. Lots of the talk was about plans for her wedding, but we also talked about what she has been learning about at uni this week. There were a few laughs when she was talking about medical students who are embarrassed by the lectures on certain parts of the body and how they are functioning, and one can't help wondering how these students are going to react when they are doctors and have to talk to patients about slightly embarrassing things. Surely they've thought about it before they went to medical school, but perhaps they haven't.
I am now back home and thinking about getting myself something to eat before sitting down for the evening with my feet up and maybe doing some knitting while I watch television. And just in case you hadn't realised, yes I am feeling a bit better today.
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