day’s paper. My eyes still not quite focused due to morphine!
Particularly love the links with Athletics, Steves Cram and Ovett and the ever lasting Seb Coe. The very idea that we had poster pin ups of Dave Bedford Donna Hartley Chrissie Evert ( ladies never sweat merely glow)! At school running was such an exhilarating event. It made Cairo and Madrid seem so much closer.
As for day by day on the bladder front very much empathise with that. Glad the gent iv worked. Next is gent washout. This is something I had told her about. A Jerome ‘domestos’ . So he’s inadvertently helped her out too and now she has told the Times readers too.
Hurrah.
On 15 Aug 2015, at 13:17, D> wrote:
Dear Melanie
I thought you’d like to know that J is in hospital in London at the moment following a major operation. It involved several procedures but the main aim is to try to stop her constant infections, which is a subject you have been writing about recently.
She’s doing brilliantly but full recovery will take several months.
I saw your article this week and it resonated so much with when J and I met in the early eighties. She is a great games player and was a very good sprinter in her youth. Our first major topic was sport and how we had always wanted to be in the Olympics.
J was, and is, a major Seb Coe fan, definitely not Ovett!
I’m sure she will be back in touch once she is on the mend.
Kind regards
D (husband of 29 years!)
I’ve shared this article from The Times for you to read:
Melanie Reid Spinal column
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From: Reid, Melanie <melanie.reid@thetimes.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:53
Subject: Re: J
To: D<@gmail.com>
Cc: J <@gmail.com>
dear both
oh gosh, i’m so sorry to hear that… all love, strength and huge good wishes for a swift recovery, J, and thank you D for letting me know.
life is an obstacle race, not a sprint, i’ve decided….us wannabe great athletes must keep our dreams alive
a friend of mine, fellow spinal victim who now designs racing wheelchairs for the developing world (cahity called motivation), saw seb coe shopping in bond street after london 2012 and followed him into shop…did the ‘i just wanted to say thank you and i think you’re wonderful’ bit, and coe was apparently brilliant and spent ages talking to him…he seems a genuinely good guy. one of the most moving things i ever read was his admission that he spent the entire period of 2012 on edge, living in dread of a terrorist attack…..that’s what you call pressure.
warm wishes
melanie
Daily Stent. I cannot cure you but I can make you laugh (citation Jerome) 