Sunday, June 29, 2003

Support Groups and all that

Have to rush round then in the middle of a meeting realise I havent got the lumps of fat for the meeting. A quick liason with the cardiac olot reveal they are are out on loan at the wirral. Another set is tracked down to the Ullet Road office of Central West. So its off there on the way home. Ring Jean shove lasagne in oven please. Arrive home, say do you think I should have borrowed projector nah if Mr Kerrigan wanted it he would have asked. Eat tea quicker than is really good for me. Go upto quickly check email email from Mr K with a file attahed he needs laptop and projector, back to matchwork whilst alking ally through copying this file to to a floppy- 1.6megs zip it. So recent crash leaves winzip inaccessible on the hard drive. Burn it to cd - she aint done that anyway I am home. Send email from my desktop to jeans wireless laptop and save file to hard drive. Take extra laptops Jean loads car with aid of Teen and Ally and bomb it to town. There is a small crowd gathering. Easy to spot our bunch. Thats an advantage, Chris the caretaker is a cool dude. One of the top sparks from the site Julie suggested a clothes exchange and she brought a small portable clothes rail jobbe the we noticed a big one in the room. Made 21 quid and a lot of people happy.
People just chatted though I didnt realise how hard this can be for people of size, who have spent years isolating themselves. Also physically standing round can be a killer when you are big and have bad joints.
Mr K is operating till 7.30 and due to speak at 8. I start talking a complete load of old tosh mostly. The mobile phone rings its him bum goes he has finished just checking the three he has done and he is on the way. Kewl.
Arrives in his audi tt looking super kewl the ladies like him. He gives a rasping talk on the different procedures indications contraindications and upsides downside. He has a powerpoint presentation which will go on the website. He gets the message across in really good way. Must find an anatomy and physiology primer for the site.
He then fields a really good q&A session.The crowd leave happy we have a long talk the care taker looks cheesed off.
Result.

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