You can never know

We organised to go to our Tuesday night vanillas for a game... not that we actually got to play it. The minute the boys eyes met across the table and after a suitable interval, they slunk off together like two small children to whisper and giggle over loud explosions. It was a circular route though. It started with a trip outside to chat about their news...

See the first warning we got that something was up was a message that they had gone low fat in their diet. Now as the RPGers reading this will know an evening RPGing is synonymous with junk food. It's in the rules... well it should be, as food bribes are the only thing that make gaming bearable. So there we are shuffled outside into the cold to get their news... where the actual children couldn't hear us.

It seems that he has been trying to quit smoking... well this will be the second time in about a year. In this country before they give you the drugs they give you blood tests first. Now he has been experiencing aches and pains and is tired and is putting on a little weight. Well his blood tests came back. The news was not good...

Not only are his cholesterol levels ten times higher than they should be... he now holds the award of the highest levels the doctor as ever seen in a living person... his blood work is showing an elevated white blood cell count. It seems he has a type of leukaemia... and fortunately due to the blood tests that were performed last year when he last tried to quit smoking, the doctors know they have caught it very early so his prognosis is good.

Unfortunately it has a hereditary component and it seems his sister has just received similar news. Except her doctor wasn't too concerned about the results and had adopted a wait and see approach. That is a view that will no doubt be changing radically next week, when his sister goes back to see the doctor.

Meanwhile the women in his life are cleaning up his diet... and frankly he looks like a condemned man. Breakfast consisted of something that looked like budgie food, with red bits in it that he was assured were cranberries and good for him. Red meat has been removed from his diet and all foods containing fats have been put on the forbidden list...

As one pointed out... every chirpily helpful... this is what a consensual non-consent life looks like. Welcome to this side of the slash J

He glowered back over his tuna and rice cracker snack...

They were however, most appreciative of the cast iron skillet that we bought for their housewarming gift. It should do a mean salmon steak and a nice grilled chicken breast...

And this serves as a reminder to us all that changes in the body are often a sign of other things and shouldn't be ignored...

And yes tomorrow one makes a doctor's appointment... three hour naps are not normal at this age L