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We all tend to take good health for granted. Yet we’re all just a heartbeat away from ending up in the Emergency Room, if truth be told. And it’s only when nature pulls the rug from under our feet, that we tend to remember this sobering thought. In July 2010, Steve Rudd, middle-aged, nondescript, writer, publisher and digital print specialist, fell seriously, suddenly ill, and was admitted to his local hospital for surgery to correct a perforated bowel. Despite nearly dying, he recovered, to spend the next six months in hospital, struggling to regain the ability to walk, and ending up by finding out something nasty about his genetic makeup that he would probably rather not have known. In that time, he also faced a different struggle, to continue to try and make ends meet from his hospital bed, stop his own business disintegrating around his ears, and fulfil the commercial promises and obligations he’d made to various people before he keeled over.
This book chronicles that struggle, in all its undignified, minute, day-by day detail; the bowels are probably one of the most unromantic and seldom-acknowledged areas of the human body, yet they are as vital to your continued well-being as your heart, your lungs, your brain or your liver.
"Some people would say that some of the things I have written are probably `too much information’”, says Steve, "But there’s an important point here; when it comes to your health, is there ever really such a thing as `too much’ information? I hope that by writing this book it might demonstrate to other people in the same situation what might happen to them, and help them keep a humorous perspective on things. I also wrote it to pay tribute, in my own weird way, to the NHS,which, for all its supposed faults, was there for me when it counted, and which saved my life. Maybe by chronicling some of the stuff that people working in hospitals have to put up with, while they strive to perform daily miracles, it might help to make discussion on the NHS, and our attitude to it, a little more informed.”
In this funny, brave, candid, unflinching, warts-and-all account, Steve Rudd describes what it is like to be taken seriously ill, (though not taken seriously!) and to go through the NHS machinery, from admission to surgery to recovery to physiotherapy and rehab. At a time when the NHS is at the forefront of the political agenda in the UK, one man’s experience, while not necessarily typical, might yet throw some new light on the debate about what we expect from a universal health service, free to all.
This book chronicles that struggle, in all its undignified, minute, day-by day detail; the bowels are probably one of the most unromantic and seldom-acknowledged areas of the human body, yet they are as vital to your continued well-being as your heart, your lungs, your brain or your liver.
"Some people would say that some of the things I have written are probably `too much information’”, says Steve, "But there’s an important point here; when it comes to your health, is there ever really such a thing as `too much’ information? I hope that by writing this book it might demonstrate to other people in the same situation what might happen to them, and help them keep a humorous perspective on things. I also wrote it to pay tribute, in my own weird way, to the NHS,which, for all its supposed faults, was there for me when it counted, and which saved my life. Maybe by chronicling some of the stuff that people working in hospitals have to put up with, while they strive to perform daily miracles, it might help to make discussion on the NHS, and our attitude to it, a little more informed.”
In this funny, brave, candid, unflinching, warts-and-all account, Steve Rudd describes what it is like to be taken seriously ill, (though not taken seriously!) and to go through the NHS machinery, from admission to surgery to recovery to physiotherapy and rehab. At a time when the NHS is at the forefront of the political agenda in the UK, one man’s experience, while not necessarily typical, might yet throw some new light on the debate about what we expect from a universal health service, free to all.
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Не гоните бормотуху! У меня это плохо кончилось! Мой маленький подвальчик превратился в хирургический зал, я не хотел. Потом мне самому пришлось ставить незаконные импланты, как биологические, так и кибернитические. Ой, как быстро закончилась моя спокойная жизнь. Но я не теряю надежду, хотя хуже, чем сейчас, придумать сложно.
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В Гадюкине не дожди, любовь и ненависть процветают, незваные гости всё ходят и ходят. У Шифера полная ж.па, но в его судьбу вмешиваются совсем непонятные сущности и люди. Решение принимать ему, но…
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Эта история о том, как молодая принцесса была вынуждена выйти замуж за огромного и небритого варвара. Её приключения начинаются со свадьбы. Содержит нецензурную брань.
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"Академия богатырей, или Как я стал рыцарем" – поведает нам историю о сильных и могучих богатырях, которые только начинали свой путь, но из-за одного промаха они попадут к жестокому, одноглазому, одноногому командиру. Содержит нецензурную брань.
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«Село Сороконожкино, или Особенности междуогородной политики» – смелая и провокационная книга в сатирическом жанре. Время действия наши дни, герои узнаваемы и непредсказуемы. Молодой бизнесмен, начальница участка ЖКХ и боксёр оказываются вовлечены в политические игры власть имущих на сельском уровне. Всех персонажей объединяет одно – они страстно стремятся к своей цели. Каждый вкладывает в эти игры для взрослых свою историю жизни, свою одержимость и извращённость нрава. Сумеют ли они пробиться в парламентарии села, и какие превратности судьбы их ждут на пути к власти? Содержит нецензурную брань.
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Why write in the first place, other than your grocery list? Eric Nicol believes it’s the second-most satisfying thing you can do lying down. But it’s not enough to want to write. You must need to write. Now, after more than seventy years of scribbling – he wrote for the school newspaper at Lord Byng High School in Vancouver, British Columbia – Eric holds forth on dangling participles, punctuation, and literary jargon. What’s more, he answers the burning question: «How much should creative writers depend on editors to correct their grammar?» Then Eric provides a wide selection of essays to demonstrate how it’s done. These include a dramatic demonstration of the chutzpah of a big Tom wild turkey and its harem on a B.C. Gulf Island, the discovery that Eric’s one-way-view window in the bathroom has been installed incorrectly, the trials and tribulations of computers and the creative process, and a riposte to the query, «Are nipples really necessary on guys?» Pure Nicol. Minted in Canada. Priceless!
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Eavesdroppings recounts life in the small towns of Ontario before sin arrived on the Internet – a time when churches were never locked and parents, not wishing to be disturbed while they listened to the radio, shooed their children out to play in the dark, unguarded streets without fear. Here you’ll find comedy, outrage, and tragedy but no disguise. Included are actual events and the names of all persons involved. The author tracks the quaint immorality of smalltown sin in the 1930s and its evolution from full-frontal bingo in the churches to the current degeneracy of nude women wrestling men in vats of Jell-O in licensed nightclubs, but he never moralizes. Indeed, he provides no uplifting messages at all – just gossip, which, as Oscar Wilde said, «is what history is all about and more fun.»
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Истории, описанные в книге, произошли на самом деле. Всё совпадения не случайны.