Too much pain (has the 13-pill-a-day cocktail lost its efficacy after just two days?); too many bad dreams (full-bloodied, gore-spattered, X-rated, wake-up screaming stuff without even the reassuring presence of Peter Cushing); and far too far from dawn to do anything remotely useful...
Momentary relief - gratefully received at 3.00 am - in the form of an e-mail from fellow member of Insomniacs Reunited (and, incidentally, Creative Giant) John van der Put.
Otherwise, a vast desert of sand from a broken hour-glass...
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Not only that, but Surgery-Leaflet-Syndrome continues unabated.
Please consider the following...
Now what I want to know is this...
Are the people depicted on these publications actually SUFFERING from the condition described?
"Of course not!" You mock. Well, then, fair enough... But if, in fact, they are just photographic models doing a job, does the agency that gets them the gig have an obligation to tell them where their mug-shots are going to end up? And, if so, are there preferential rates if you model for particularly unpleasant or socially unacceptable diseases?
And what about the after-effects? My Mum once had a long conversation with former TV-newsreader, Andrew Gardner, in a shop, thinking he was someone she knew; so, does Mr-Face-of-British-Genital-Herpes have to put up with genuine herpes-sufferers (albeit now on the road to recovery, thanks to his valuable work on the leaflet) accosting him - even, perhaps, asking for his autograph - when he's pushing his shopping-trolley round Tesco's?
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Maybe they ARE suffering from those medical conditions, and the small portions of their faces shown in the leaflets are the only remaining areas of unaffected tissue...
Strange that 'unaffected upper left face' should be a symptom of both genital herpes and syphilis.
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