My father lives in France and is ill. Thus has to go hospital for a week or so. A month back he did this before. He had the op and was left attached to a bank of monitors alongside 51 other patients. The nurses spend their time in a control room watching the screens for flatlines.
After couple of days recuperation he asked if he could use the shower, no problem came the response from the cardiologist.
Consternation in the control room. There are 2 baths and one shower for 51 people. However no patient had ever asked to wash before, so the three rooms were store cupboards. After half an hours’ work the shower was freed for use. Great thought father, human again.
When he asked the next day his request was greeted with a polite but stone faced refusal, the storeroom was back in operation. So this morning I went to the shop in a little town called Frevent to get him supplies for the next weeks sojourn under the knife. And was startled to find Veet. Veet is a deodorant that proudly states –VEET DEODORANT - LASTS THREE DAYS.
I just caught a few minutes of Colin Quinn's show on Comedy Central, where the comedians were talking about the way cigarettes have been vilified and aren't shown on TV anymore. Richard Jeny (sp?) said he was very pro-cigarette. "After all, anything that's killed millions of French people can't be all bad!"
In other news, it seems that some of the terrorists recently arrested in Canada were in the U.S. on 9/11/01:
In Ottawa, an immigration spokeswoman refused to say if U.S. authorities are participating in the probe, but noted that Canada "works together with our international partners" on shared immigration concerns. At a detention hearing last Wednesday, a government lawyer went so far as to note that some of the men were on American soil at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., according to a hearing transcript.
The lawyer, identified as S. MacKay, said at a hearing for Jahan Zaib Sawhney that a raid on a business college shell that sold false documents turned up letters that accommodated student travel to and from the United States. "Now, the significance of that is that Sept. 11 occurred pretty much in the middle of the time period for which these people are thought to have been in the United States," he said. canada.com