{"id":755,"date":"2017-01-14T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/thank-you\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:27:43","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To everyone, over these last 2 years particularly when things have been tough and my health has deteriorated for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>For popping round and having tea<br \/>For texting and asking how things are going<br \/>For calling &#39;just for chat&#39; and perking me up<br \/>For cooking and feeding us<br \/>For taking us in when our builders drove us out<br \/>For coming with me to the endless appointments<br \/>For sitting with me in the delightful &#39;chemo lounge&#39;<br \/>For taking time off work to support a friend<br \/>For sending things in the post to make my day<br \/>For flowers, nibbles, books, candles, Sherbert DibDabs, bed socks and more<br \/>For helping with my shoes and socks when I can&#39;t get down there<br \/>For offering to do anything needed when I&#39;ve been unable to<br \/>For dealing with my frustration and sadness <br \/>For empathy and piss-taking in roughly similar amounts<br \/>For taking my mind off all this when I&#39;ve needed it most<br \/>For making me laugh over dinners, drinks or at myself<br \/>For &#39;getting&#39; what a Scotty might need and turning up with it in hand &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160;For your patience and kindness when I&#39;ve moaned on about how shit things are<br \/>For not just doing it once, but over and over as the many months have dragged on<\/p>\n<p>And for still reading this blog, 8 years and 4 months after necessity made me start it, when not one of us would have put a fiver on me still being here today.<\/p>\n<p>I may have a ruined body right now, but I am blessed with some bloody good, treasured people in my life. You! And here&#39;s hoping the SCT will change some of this, so we can all go back to a more normal way of life.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, big thanks to you all. You are what make this possible.<\/p>\n<p>X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To everyone, over these last 2 years particularly when things have been tough and my health has deteriorated for a second time. 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