Poorly Pops and Lipgloss

I'm having a wonderfully lazy day today- by lazy I mean I'm trotting around doing various houseworky bits and drinking way too much Tetley Tea for my own good. I took Friday and today off so that I could have an extended weekend, and therefore a rest, and also catch up on doing lots of things that I don't normally have time to do. Of course, things never quite pan out that way do they? Last week my beloved Daddy had a pretty serious fall. Now, my Dad isn't a small chap-he's 6ft 2 for starters and fairly well built, but it's clear that over the past few years he hasn't been amazingly healthy. He's 65 on the 3rd of Feb and is a wonderfully grumpy, funny Glaswegian chap. of course, being Scottish he's more than partial to a dram of Whiskey, and why not? But he's also an exceptionally heavy smoker too, so the odds are stacked against him a tad where matters healthy are concerned. Combine that with my Uncle having a massive stroke a couple of years ago that took a wonderfully intelligent and affable chap from our lives, and also my Nana having had a fair few minor strokes before her passing and you can see where I'm heading can't you? Dad has a tendency to stay up until the wee hours watching the telly, and he didn't go up to bed until just short of 3am. Unfortunately when he ascended the stairs at the top step he fell really badly, grabbing the door handle on the way down. That wasn't the worst bit, on the way down he grabbed the toilet door, only for that to shut on his hand, cutting it quite badly. Next morning it transpired that this wasn't his only injury..his right side was significantly weaker than the night before, he couldn't tell if he was actually placing his foot on the floor ( sensation being all over the place) which meant he was having great difficulty walking, and to cap it all his writing was buggered. Dad is an avid crossword aficionado, and while he 'enjoys' his first smoke of the morning he always finishes both Daily Mail (Sigh, what can I say..yes he reads that garbage) crosswords before his first brew of the morning. He was utterly disgusted that his neat block capitals were practically illegible, and since he wasn't feeling so hot and Mum was nagging him to Olympic standards they hastily visited the Doctors.
Now, this bit I don't get- they've said that Dad hasn't had a stroke, but how could they know this without a CT scan? It's quite clear that something Neurologically unsound has occurred or else he wouldn't be so suddenly handicapped..and as you can imagine it's a huge cause for concern. My days off therefore have been filled with fretting and anxious phonecalls, trying to get it through to my Dad that he should go back to the GP's, because it's clear that he's not at all well. This isn't easy though-this is the bloke who had Appendicitis for a fortnight (No, I'm not making this up) before he *finally* agreed to go to the Docs, whereby an ambulance was called and he ended up in hospital for a fortnight. His appendix was so enlarged by this point that they couldn't take it out-he was on a drip and really very poorly, and his attending Doc was astonished he'd made it as far, because if he'd left it any longer they said he would have been dead within 24 hours! Stubborn is not the word....Apart from all this drama I've managed to fit in an Itunes session, subscribing to Podcasts galore. I never knew Stephen Fry was a regular Podcaster, but now I've downloaded them for my listening pleasure this afternoon. I would've downloaded Ricky Gervais' latest, but I've gone off him since he slagged off ME sufferer's in his 'Fame' DVD. I don't mind poking fun, but he took it too far..and speaking as someone who's been afflicted by that condition since the 1990's I found it quite irksome that he was taking the piss. I've found loads of Second Life related podcasts as well- lord only knows how they'll sound but I shall be listening to them in a bit. Last but not least, I've treated myself to some new make-up courtesy of 'Wet 'N' Wild's 99p per item sale. That is such a ridiculous name for a cosmetics company isn't it? It sounds like a chuffing Porno, BUT I have been a very happy customer of theirs before so can vouch for the quality of their product range. In fact,*everything* is included in the sale, so you can load up on lovelies such as mineral powder foundation, mascara, Kabuki and various other cosmetic brushes, bronzer, lipstick..the whole works. Not only that BUT postage is free if you spend over a tenner, so while it's still January I heartily suggest you get to it and treat yourself!
Right, I'm off to listen to Stephen Fry and partake of some seriously Tea drinking...I'll keep you posted on Pop's progress.