Wibbling and Buggering
Dec. 12th, 2007 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaVia.
An Embuggerance
Folks,
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early
onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".
We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I
expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet :o)
Terry Pratchett
PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should
be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as
will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell.
I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do", but in this case I
would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:48 pm (UTC)fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:48 pm (UTC):(
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-12 03:57 pm (UTC)In a way I'd be less upset if he dies (shame on me, I know), because as you said Alzheimers is horrible, and it's slow and it's progressive, it just... I really don't know what to say... or do other than continue to read and buy his books, ya know?
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Date: 2007-12-12 04:13 pm (UTC)The one.. merciful.. thing about getting Alzheimer's when you're very old is that something else might kill ya before it can run its course. I know that watching my gran's deterioration over the past 7 years has been.. horrendous.
Gah.
And it's especially shitty since, from what I've been reading, they're finding out stuff now about how Alzheimer's happens that could make it a *lot* more treatable in the next decade or two. But I think that once the damage is done, it's done.
gah.
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Date: 2007-12-12 05:43 pm (UTC)No worries :) Honest mistake.
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Date: 2007-12-12 05:42 pm (UTC)Terry is short for Terrence.