Last Friday before Christmas?.....where has the year gone?   I’m all done an dusted, wrapped, delivered, written, Christmas decs up…… when I say decs I actually mean a white fibre optic tree with a Tinkerbell sat at the top and not a bauble in sight, the hardest part is probably getting it out of the box. There’s also a collection of novelties gathered on the table including a bright red bird (similar to me during a hot flush)   that all wiggle, laugh, sing, and do various other Christmassy things (similar to me after a few shots of Disarrono)

My inbox is being bombarded with emails by manufacturers desperate to tip me upside down and shake every last bit of cash from my pockets, …

Hey Stacy, why not mark the 25th December with some crème cheese?

Er…. have you ever tried marking something with crème cheese?  Personally I prefer to use a biro….. NEXT?....

Hey stacy, why not treat yourself to something alternative and fun, like a 6ft tree made of wood?

They’ve obviously never seen my struggles with an ikea flat pack ….plus I’d still have to find some baubles.    Watford Observer:    And what a load of baubles written in a national newspaper this week in an interview with  the knighted psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessley,   a man who is evidently in need of  one himself . http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/simon-wessely-if-we-treated-people-with-diabetes-the-way-we-treat-those-with-depression-there-would-be-an-outcry-9924174.html 

Reading his ignorant views on Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and not for the first time, it’s obvious he has absolutely no clue about the reality of the chronic physical condition that ME truly is, he just thinks he does.  It’s people like Wessley that are extremely dangerous, the media love him because it follows their own line of bullying that we’ve endured for years and raises shackles within the ME community resulting in many responding in defence, and there’s nothing like a good argument to play into the hands of those who’ve already got us labelled as hysterical loonies, it boosts figures and a journalists ego.

It also follows the governments hypocritical stance, that while they accept the British Medical Journals classification that ME is a neurological disease, the only funding given  to treat ME is to psychiatry…..does anyone else smell a rat regarding the Wessley/government bromance?

It wasn’t all that long ago that Illness such as epilepsy and MS were once  deemed mental illness, hysteria, we now know that not to be true. Those of us with ME can only dust ourselves down & continue the battle in the hope that we too will have our day. Some may find this article  from the BMJ  2012 of interest?  http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3454/rr/586569 

And talking of special days, after the excitement of  seeing Football manager Graham Taylor having a  stand named after him, we also see  Elton John rightly honoured . He called it “One of the greatest days of my life”

Well of course, this is Watford after all.

Elton who’s an honorary life president showed up at the club in Vicarage road  along with his partner David Furnish and sons  Zachary and Elijah to see the Hornets win 2-1 against Wigan.

I have to admit that a photo of myself squeeshed between Graham and Elton with Harry the Hornet hovering at the back is on my bucket list, but if I don’t get to fulfil it? There’s always photoshop.

                   Watford Observer:

Although I’m glad there wasn’t a camera around last night, as I took something out of the spring loaded cupboard, it slammed shut on my finger, I yelled out an extremely naughty word for an abnormal length of time and  I’d run out of breath. The house fell silent, when from beneath the floorboards I heard the muffled guffaw of my mother laughing hysterically ,  before calling  out  with concern  “Did that Hurt”?

Another pause, before I replied “No, what makes you ask”?

At which point laughter filled  the house in stereo, & reminded me that no matter the atrocities in the world and closer to home, New life, loss of life,  daily struggles, & challenges  we  all face, we still have the ability to laugh through the tears, and I hope that 2015 will bring you all plenty to smile about.

Next time we meet it will be Boxing day, So Merry Christmas My Friends, Thankyou for joining me on Friday mornings and long may it continue.                                                  

                                   Til Next Year, Stay Blessed

                                       Back Before Elvis

                                             Stacy XXX

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