Me too Pat!
More tomorrow!
Nina x
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Hi all, l just watched the 2nd one , missed the 1st loved it hope there is more to come. hope you all are keeping well. regards jan xx
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Was good again last night. I love the girl in it she is amusing.
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Me too Don. It was great.
Pat xx
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And me, great programme.
Pam x
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I’m sorry he has MS but I’m also glad otherwise I wouldn’t have started watching
Jan x
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Me too… I thought for a moment he was going to reveal all to his side kick! I hope we get more MS related stuff, be very interesting!
Can’t believe what a dope I am…on Saturday I saw Martin Sheen reading a poem ( beautifully) on the VE Day celebrations and for a fleeting second I thought " oh poor chap "! Gullible me…surely not!!
Nina x
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I loved it when the American President… Martin Sheen… was dx with MS in West Wing!
One scene I particularly loved. The President told his wife that he was going for a ‘second term’ as president. His wife, played the the wonderful Stockard Channing and was a doctor, said ‘Oh my God!!! A second term!!! Are you mad? Your immune system is shredding your brain’!!!
Good enough to put on a t-shirt!
Pat xx
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Lol I want one my brain is well shredded
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I have just read in the TV may that next Wednesday is the last one in this series!!
Doesn’t seem as though its been on long, or perhaps its just me thinking that way.
Pam x
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Should say mag not may …bloody predictive text!
Pam x
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They never make a long series… like ‘Vera’… 4 episodes if you’re lucky.
Not like the Americans who make those lovely long series that you can just lose yourself in!
I’m on series 6 of Mad Men… loving every second of it!
Pat xx
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I think that’s why they use that phrase (the shredder) on the MS research blog (Barts hospital). Someone lent me all the videos for the series and I MUST start watching them - have had them for literally a few years aaagghh
B
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Thanks Pat, I am doing well… agree with you all about the series (we watched all the previous ones) - love all the 60’s ‘stuff’ and the attention to detail, also the running battle between John and the new WPC - she usually manages to teach him a lesson or two about equality in a subtle but memorable way!
B x
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Ooooh I would love one of those t shirts it would save me having to explain things.
Mags xx
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Hi Steve,
I don’t usually hang out here - not being SPMS.
But yes, I found Episode 2 harrowing as well. Mesothelioma AND MS: the two diseases that have devastated our family - and both in the same episode!
My father died of mesothelioma in 2008, after exposure to asbestos over 50 years before. I was already ill then, but not badly enough to have any insight into what was wrong with me - thought it was the stress of having a dying relative. Was eventually diagnosed with MS in 2010 - just two years after we lost Dad.
So I found the programme very hard to watch - especially when parallels were made between MS and mesothelioma. I hoped my mum wasn’t watching, but I’m almost sure she would have been, because it would be her type of thing.
One disease that has badly affected us would be enough for one storyline, but to feature TWO that have touched us directly! I guessed at the mesothelioma storyline as soon as we saw the abandoned factory, and learnt that one of the children who used to play there had died of cancer.
I’ve always tried to keep myself strong by telling myself MS is a walk in the park compared to what my dad went through with mesothelioma, and that I’ve been “lucky”, because there are far worse things! So it was a bit outside my comfort zone to have any kind of comparison made between the two - even though Gently never said so outright. But obviously when he talked to the young police officer about her fears of mesothelioma, it was from the perspective of his own secret life with MS, so he was comparing the two! Considering I’ve spent ages trying to convince myself: “My life’s a doddle, compared to what Dad had”, it wasn’t terribly helpful to see any similarities being drawn.
It was still a good programme - no criticism there. But painfully close to home, in more than one way - as it was for you.
Tina
xx
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Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen latest episode…
Well well… another good episode and George has come out of the MS closet.
Glad he’s not leaving the force.
Pat xx
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Glad he’s now t leaving as well Pat, plus how he talked about it I thought was good as it showed its unpredictability.
Still wish that wasn’t the last of this series, looking forward to the next.
Pam x
Sorry, should read not leaving!
Time for bed me thinks, brain can’t think straight.
Pam xx
Another really good episode…hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next series!
Nina x
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