My Navel

I have a friend with a brain tumour. A few years ago he was operated on and went into remission. Things were good for a couple of years, but recently he went back into hospital in sharp decline. His tumour has started to spread through his brain and his oncologist thinks it is inoperable. It is early days and no-one knows how much time he has at this stage, but the likelihood is that he will not survive the experience.

I have never lost a close friend before. I have lost elderly relatives but you expect them to go sooner or later. You don’t expect people in their thirties to be gone so soon. This isn’t going to be relatively fast like an elderly relative either; as time goes on and the tumour grows, he will change. I can already see the differences, but he is still the same person in there, and if we’re lucky he will stay that way. There is a chance that he will become a different person though and the person I know will be gone before his body gives out.

I don’t quite know how to handle this, it is new territory for me. I guess I will find a way but right now I am still stunned with shock.

Anyway, in an attempt to escape from reality, here is some information about yesterday’s belly button fluff.

I mentioned in my last post that things were shaping up well for the day, that my belly button was gathering lint at a good pace. Well, it didn’t disappoint. I was wearing a brand new black acrylic jumper and it seemed to have fluff to spare. Not only did I pull out a 12mm cone of lint at around 18:00, I extracted a second at bedtime.

I am somewhat pleased at yesterday’s production of navel lint, although my joy is somewhat tempered by the news I heard today. I would have liked to be a little more verbose with this post, but my enthusiasm is a little low.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 11:30 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.