Comments on: Three months, not a lifetime

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:00:14 +0000

How did I miss this? I’m so sorry and I hope you’re getting on okay. I wondered why you were getting a foot on Flickr. This really puts my nose into perspective. Well, most things do. It’s a small nose.

You have my wishes. Feel better, dude!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:36:31 +0000

What a story! And it happened in Clapham, too!

I pity you only for having to deal with Social Services, my new friend. I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns — pig-headed so and so’s!

By: hitchhiker

hitchhiker — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:56:19 +0000

what is this website ? ive searched fairies and yours come up ! Get it sorted !!!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:25:01 +0000

Yeah but Sir Paul will be down like £400 million soon. You don’t want to go for him then.

By: marmiteboy

marmiteboy — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:46:19 +0000

Welcome back Sir,

Your Paul McCartney comment made me laugh out loud. I’d have thought that you would have aimed higher than a 60 odd year old multi-millionaire with dyed hair and a face like a squeezed lemon!!

Mind you he is a millionaire ;-)

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:42:40 +0000

… but please don’t post it on flickr…

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:08:46 +0000

Did they let you keep the bottom half of your leg, as a souvenir?

Tell me that you got a photo of it, at least.

By: Clare

Clare — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:57:41 +0000

Yes yes, there is an inconsistency in that comment. I just spotted it. It does actually make sense, but explaining it would involve far too much longwindedness. You’ll just have to take my word for it.

By: Clare

Clare — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:56:08 +0000

Well, allI can say is it’s a damn shame I removed the one-legged character from my book. He was great. And now that I sort-of-vaguely-almost know a one-legged person, I could have done proper research and everything!

You’re right though — there is a lot of humour to be got from one-leggedness, isn’t there? It certainly wasn’t for lack of the funny that he got summarily dismissed from the plot.

Oh, hang on a minute, I’ve just remembered, he was called Simon! That’s ever-so-almost spooky.

Still, all brevity aside, I am sorry to hear of your cooped-up-in-hospitalness. I have a friend who is an above-the-knee amputee though, and you’re right — it’s not the end of the world. It’s still a bit crap though. Commiserations.

By: Becca of the Viola variety

Becca of the Viola variety — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:08:05 +0000

Only just found you n this post. I found myself getting institutionalised after just 2 weeks as an inpatient, can’t begin to imagine what it must feel like to you but its not permanent, honest to gods.

Maybe you could sub-let your flat and stay somewhere more accessible while you get the hang of the whole walking thang again?

Hang in there.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:12:35 +0000

Thoughts are with you. That is the miracle of this business — writing I mean. Can I try a little dark humour? Not really humour, but heart felt.

Live, and be a character…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars

Le champagne pour tout le monde

Much respect to you my friend.

By: Louloublue

Louloublue — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:09:41 +0000

Hospital sucks. I send you love and a hug and pray for swift return to the ebb and flow of life.

By: LukePDQ

LukePDQ — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:20:02 +0000

Vaughan, Welcome back.
Black Humour is best left to you rather than a mere reader; so I will just wish you a speedy exit from institutional life — and safe return to your own abode.
Am glad you are able to blog again.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:57:51 +0000

Welcome back, Vaughan. It’s grand to hear from you again xx

By: Del

Del — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:36:32 +0000

Welcome back! My first visit here and quite a way to discover you. Hope you get some happy fun things going on soon for you to blog about!

By: Magpie

Magpie — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:40:35 +0000

It’s very good to hear from you again, even if the situation isn’t ideal.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:07:54 +0000

Welcome back from me as well. You sound like you may go the way of my dad. He has diabetes as well. He’s 80 and still going strong, and we often joke that he is never going to die, they’re just going to keep removing bits of him until there’s nothing left.

Gallows humour is always the best kind of humour, because it’s the most honest.

By: nureader Lindsey

nureader Lindsey — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:40:48 +0000

I would say I’m so glad you’re back but I’d feel a bit selfish, putting my reading pleasures before your monopedal needs. I would also pour a million Oprah Winfrey encouraging words on here but then again, you didn’t want to become a martyr. I would tell you of my own tragic tales of having a disease but it gets annoying having people with disabilities come up and try to share stories with me. So I guess this comment is just an announcement of my presence and to let you know that I am reading your blog and I find it incredibley interesting.

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:22:46 +0000

I don’t know, you say you’re not sure what to write and then the next thing you know, it’s three months later and you’re missing half a leg. Blimey. You must have been going stir-crazy writing in your head, brimming with words and ideas, and a lack of words to adequately convey, for months. Best excuse for a hiatus EVAH, though. ;o)

I’m glad you’ve refound this outlet.

It’s good to have you back. Ish. (That’s back-ish, not good-ish).

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:59:25 +0000

Really glad to see you’re back. Looks like diabetes is something else we have in common. Thinking of you.