tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25745858.post4220676757149796379..comments2023-11-30T13:49:20.131+00:00Comments on NASIM MARIE JAFRY: ON WRITING, READING and CHRONIC ILLNESS: Lou Reed, Doris Lessing and Lionel Shrivernmjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25745858.post-13919767402210060892013-10-30T17:41:57.875+00:002013-10-30T17:41:57.875+00:00Hey Sabine, I have hardly read any Doris Lessing, ...Hey Sabine, I have hardly read any Doris Lessing, but enjoying this... she's a brilliant writer, though I've found some of her books impenetrable before...I've been using preservative free artificial tears for many years, but this betablocker eyedrop medication, which I can no longer tolerate is for high pressure. I have come off it, I can't do this to my eyes! Hopefully can find another med if need be.<br /><br />Hey Alison, Was not a huge Lou fan, much more into Bowie, but Transformers just whisks me right back to early 80s. I like WHTTAK, but have not been able to read any of the others. I also find her articles a bit dense to wade through and the 'poor me' tone of this one just rubbed me the wrong way. But I like seeing her on review programmes on TV, she is so honest, no bullshit. And you are married now! Hope you are as well as can be.nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25745858.post-91589777771410800702013-10-29T20:26:37.669+00:002013-10-29T20:26:37.669+00:00I tried to get into Lou Reed and Velvet Undergroun...I tried to get into Lou Reed and Velvet Underground in college, but besides a few songs it didn't happen. My husband was scheduled to play at a "covers night" yesterday at this bar and the organizer asked all the musicians if they could play Lou Reed covers, but no one did, but the organizer, who's a friend, felt he had to. So he played Perfect Day for the last song of the night and everyone just sat quietly and listened. I rocked a little and got teary. I guess in a way I was happy for him. If this is what people are doing the days after your death you've had a good life.<br /><br />I smoked one cigarette on New Year's Eve. The next day the people I smoked with were offering me cigarettes and I politely turned them down. "I don't smoke, that was just last night." I don't think it's a tradition I want to start though : )<br /><br />I tried to read the Lionel Shriver thing the other day when I saw it on twitter, but after a few paragraphs I had to stop. And I wanted to keep going because I do like her books. But yeah, what was that?<br /><br />Hope your eyes feel better soon. You don't have Sjogren's, do you?Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07064893477629124444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25745858.post-27370745991469238762013-10-29T19:37:04.411+00:002013-10-29T19:37:04.411+00:00Oh I remember reading that Doris Lessing novel man...Oh I remember reading that Doris Lessing novel many years ago and the cat/dog Hugo scared me at first. I suppose I took a lot of her writing very very seriously at the time. <br /><br />Regarding eyes, I have similar flares (due to immune suppression drugs and/or whatever) and since I started to use plain eye drops - the stuff that is just like tears - religiously every couple of hours and panthenol eye salve at night things have gotten much better. It can make you look like you are on the verge of tears but what the heck.<br />Hope things will get better! Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.com