Do you know that when they originally told us about Dad, and they reckoned it could be 9 months, that would have been March, as in This Month.
So how's he doing? Well, in Jan, when they took him off WonderDrug1 and gave him WonderDrug2 they said that they wouldn't have given him the drug unless they reckoned he had another 4 months at least.
So on that note, I guess it was good news.

We've been talking a bit, and I think he's thinking of giving up the taxi, let's face it, he's only doing one or two nights a week and thats only for two or three hours at a time.
Thing is it's due for an overhaul and insurance and although road-worthy, cos of Ken Livingstone they'd fail it for a wee bit of rust on the wing (Already means work would come to 2k)
Plus there's the new thing now also from Ken about the emissions, let's face it Black Cabs kick out a lot of shit, so although I agree in general with this I also see from The Cabby's point of view.
The traditional Fairway cabs like Dad's would need it fitted, even the fairly new TX1's need a emissons thing.
So it'd work out a hell of a lot of money, and there's no guarentee (one day I WILL learn to spell that!) that Dad'd be able to work long enough to re-coup the losses.
So if he sold it now, he'd be able to get maybe a grand on it and then hire a cab for when he was able and felt up to working.
If the cab went I'd be sad, everyone's jealous of the cab and get excited by riding in it, and not only that it's one more sign that the envitable is coming, at least when he does feel up to going to work, it's like we can pretend everything is normal.