Typical tutorial, a chat about the artists I *should* admire. Any artists I *did* admire were allegedly not the correct choices.
I was often advised to look at works by Sidney Nolan. Why? Is it helpful to keep telling people to research the same stuff constantly?
Llandrindod Wells, 1994.
Doctor: “You MUST give up smoking!”
Pregnant patient: “But I don’t smoke!!!”
Doctor: “No buts! Smoking is harmful to your baby!”
P: “But I can’t give up a habit I don’t have…”
D: “That’s a feeble attitude!!!”
This conversation repeated for months. She didn’t listen to anything anyone else said. It was recommended that I should attend a course for people who find giving up smoking very difficult. No appointment arrived so I didn’t think about that, as it wasn’t relevant anyway. The doctor criticised me for not going. I pointed out that she would look ridiculous for sending a non-smoker along.
“I’d only smoke if I was on fire…”
“Well that’s why you must stop!!!”
I mentioned to the midwife that this constant nagging increased my blood pressure.
“Do I really need to come here every week?”
“No…”
I was able to stop visiting the Dr, as I wasn’t ill. The appointments didn’t fit the bus timetable so that was a useful detail. Being visited by the midwife instead was far better for everyone.
In today’s news I heard that pregnant smokers are being given £400 as an incentive to stop. Obviously I would have accepted this offer before miraculously giving up my non-existent puffing…
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