The Waiting Room

Hello everyone, TWoTH here.

I’m writing this week’s post because DC is really quite ill at the moment.  This will also explain why everything (Facebook/Myspace/TWRHQ/WOXY/Twitter) hasn’t been updated with news of this week’s coming show. This is a long story, so go for a wee before we begin…

Here’s the background:  DC recentlty spent some time in Virginia USA, mostly being a spy in some fields & woodlands.  It seems, despite checking his nooks & fat folds everytime he showered, a tick secreted itself into DC’s belly button.

Last week, before he discovered the tick, he was quite sick for a day or two but he attributed it to eating something bad the evening before.  Then, last Tuesday, DC was advised that 2 of his proper job colleagues had both come down with something rather worrying: one had a serious muscle cramping, a pounding headache & constant drowsiness & fatigue.  The other was covered in a series of rashes from head to toe & felt like he’d been hit by a truck. Both went to see their doctor (one in the US, one in Wales) & were both diagnosed with having contracted Lyme Disease from tick bites.

That very same evening, whilst showering, DC felt his belly button itch & upon examining what he thought was a mole that had appeared from nowhere realised he had a female tick embedded in his belly button.  Disgustingly he made me watch him remove it with tweezers, but I have to say I am amazed he did it because he is so squeamish with fiddly things especially anything to do with his bellybutton.  The gay.

Unfortunately, even though he knew what he was doing, he cracked the tick’s shell/body, which apprently is quite a bad thing to do because of all the gunk & bacteria it carries.  The following day he went to see his Doctor who had to telephone the tropical disease hotline (there’s a tropical disease hotline!) because she knew nothing about the condition.  She was told he sounds like he doesn’t have any symptoms so just treat the now festering bite wound (it was/is grim looking), but should any symptoms occur within 5 days to call immediately.

Tuesday evening, against the Doctor’s advice to rest, DC went to see the visiting Edinburgh band Jesus H. Foxx play live & also met up with & played host to Adam, one half of the Arizona-based duo The Smiles & Frowns, & his lovely wife Misty.  That evening also involved a final recording session for this week’s show with returning studio guest Lloyd Robson & a meeting with Mr. Nick Fisk. The evening ended at 5.30am Wednesday morning (I’d gone to bed way before that), 3hrs before DC was supposed to arrive at Offshore Recording Studios to record a session + interview with Jesus H. Foxx.

Naturally DC slept in, was an hour & a half late, but got through the session & the interview, accompanied JHF around Cardiff all day, met up with Adam & Misty, as well as Fisk, before attending the Holly Golightly gig that evening.  When he got back to DCHQ whatever it is that’s lurking in his system hit him. Hard. Very hard. He’s been waylayed/bed-bummed/pooped ever since.  Which brings us back to me, TWoTH, writing this.

This week’s show sees the return of Mr. Lloyd Robson (back by popular demand, no less), 2hrs of ridiculous jibber jabber, an excellent playlist, & a dis/re-appearing co-host.  Intrigued?  Like the rusty old man says you know what to do…

x TWoTH

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