What are the chances of iTunes selecting Love Like Blood twice in a row when set on random? Class.
Anyway. So, I went to have a routine check-up at a specialist hospital – the last time I'd gone was two years ago. My asthma, which was never severe, had pretty much gone. But this past week, I've been feeling tight-chested and have coughed as a result. My GP didn't seem to take me seriously. Again. He went on about his own acid reflux. I mean, I know chest discomfort can be caused by acid reflux – that's why I have to take bloody antacid medicine, ever since my evil bitch of a boss bullied me into suffering stress so deep that I walked out of the job, telling them where to stick her notice period. That was six years ago, but the effects on my health were all too concrete. Insomnia, anyone?
As I sat in the waiting room, I read NMJ's book The State of Me. It was good to have a commute to the hospital as it gave me time to read about 100 pages of her work. I can hear NMJ's voice in my head (I have never heard her voice) when I read. And I feel as though a friend is talking to me, although this is a work of fiction.
The main character, Helen, has a phobia of spiders and, with synchronicity that startled me, a spider about the size of a halfpenny (remember those?) lowered itself from somewhere high to float in front of my face and proceeded to watch me as I sat in the waiting area, rigid. It was like Batman on a wire rope. I was The Joker. We know who won. (I don't have a fear of spiders but I don't want them on my face, thanks...)
Eventually, the spider did a marvellous move down an invisible thread of silken web and sat on a wall nearby. I kept an eye on it as I tried to continue reading, and was grateful to be called in to have my lung capacity checked. That meant I'd leave my seat, see a nurse and then be able to return to a spider-free area of the waiting room while waiting for the consultation with the doctor.
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Listening to: Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
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