Tosh / Brilliant, painful, unsparing as ever. Your piece reminded of advice I once got from the novelist Bruce Jay Friedman— “If you write a sentence that makes your squirm, keep going…”
I admire your fearlessness, your talent and your ability to turn personal hell into art.
I only hope, when the time comes -and it always comes- that I handle it with half as much heart.
I think I have been following your Blog/Existential/Surrealist/Oloupo 'memoir' since you started in back in 2018 or so, from my el-cheapo not-Apple computer, in Melbourne, Australia. I met you briefly, in person, at Book Soup, you reminded me of a good ex-pat-English friend of mine, here in Melbourne, who is good friends with Stuart Home, and lo-and-behold, the book you sold me - Boris Vian's 'the dead all have the same skin' - had a blurb by Stuart Home in a weird act of cosmic synchronicity! Your Blog itself has become like a Borges meets Chantal Ackerman listening to Pulp, chicken-soup of socialist-media notes, opinion and observations from a bloke in art-life of Los Angeles. Thanks for it, and hopefully the 'World's Greatest Medical System (?), (because EVERYTHING FROM AMERICA IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST', no?') gives you another decade or two of fascinating output! (how do I input emojis on this fucking interface?)
I’m praying for you Tosh🙏🏻 I’m so sorry you are having such terrible pain.. I’m sure you are exhausted just trying to get comfortable.. I wish I could help… 😔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Oh Tosh I am so sorry. I am not a religious person yet I am a spiritual person and Chris and I will continue to say a prayer for the universe to heal you. We need you here and big hugs to your wife.
Tosh / Brilliant, painful, unsparing as ever. Your piece reminded of advice I once got from the novelist Bruce Jay Friedman— “If you write a sentence that makes your squirm, keep going…”
I admire your fearlessness, your talent and your ability to turn personal hell into art.
I only hope, when the time comes -and it always comes- that I handle it with half as much heart.
Absolutely heroic, man.
I think I have been following your Blog/Existential/Surrealist/Oloupo 'memoir' since you started in back in 2018 or so, from my el-cheapo not-Apple computer, in Melbourne, Australia. I met you briefly, in person, at Book Soup, you reminded me of a good ex-pat-English friend of mine, here in Melbourne, who is good friends with Stuart Home, and lo-and-behold, the book you sold me - Boris Vian's 'the dead all have the same skin' - had a blurb by Stuart Home in a weird act of cosmic synchronicity! Your Blog itself has become like a Borges meets Chantal Ackerman listening to Pulp, chicken-soup of socialist-media notes, opinion and observations from a bloke in art-life of Los Angeles. Thanks for it, and hopefully the 'World's Greatest Medical System (?), (because EVERYTHING FROM AMERICA IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST', no?') gives you another decade or two of fascinating output! (how do I input emojis on this fucking interface?)
All I need is to see the word "catheter" and I cringe. Hang in there Tosh, thinking of you. You are tougher than a box of door nails.
I’m praying for you Tosh🙏🏻 I’m so sorry you are having such terrible pain.. I’m sure you are exhausted just trying to get comfortable.. I wish I could help… 😔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
holy crap. I hope at least you're getting some good pain killers out of all this...
What agony!
What an ordeal! Glad you got some relief (and some great writing out of it as some consolation).
Sounds terribly painful 😖
I am sorry Tosh 🥺
Only "good" thing about pain is that when it goes the memory of goes fast..wishing you well x
Oh Tosh I am so sorry. I am not a religious person yet I am a spiritual person and Chris and I will continue to say a prayer for the universe to heal you. We need you here and big hugs to your wife.
Whew! What a mess, I relate, however, not much fun at all. Keep breathing. Slowly, in and out, in and out . . .
Thanks, Tosh, we're with ya xXx
I’m so sorry, Tosh. That sounds truly harrowing. Thank you for sharing and updating. We love you and are wishing for you to heal and persevere! 🙏