Just In Case You Haven't Heard - Sad News

[mtemplar_fic]

Sad news today for fans of Ten. DT has announced at the NTAs that he'll be leaving DW after the specials. *is depressed*

Here's the official BBC announcement (with video): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

EDIT: The NTA Announcement (video): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698886.stm

Comments

[editrx.livejournal.com]

And what I think is going on? In regards to DT's decision or rumors about the specials?

Well, yes.

But actually was originally thinking what you wrote -- about the specials. But would love to hear your take on the decision. I'm editrx at livejournal dot com. (Which is obvious, but my brain isn't working properly. It's been a flare of the lupus, which is why I haven't written really for months except one or two posts. I need to remedy that. I've spent almost 18 hours a day asleep, which has played havoc on my work; luckily, with freelance, it's possible to do that and work at night.)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

My earlier take on the decision is here: http://mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com/21349.html#cutid1

From what I've read, though, it sounds as though RTD had DT's entire three years mapped out - with DT doing a bit of waffling at the end, between the time of that entry and RTD's interview at the recent writer's festival, which on rewatch is extremely telling.

And as for rumors about the specials, I'll email. They're not definite, but sound much like something that RTD would do.

And lupus - sheesh. You must be on some heavy-duty meds. What's your stage, if I might be so bold to ask?

[editrx.livejournal.com]

I have SLE and have had it, with Sjögren's Syndrome & Reynaud's Syndrome (the "family bulk package," as I call it), for well over a decade now, and we suspect actually was an early-onset at the beginning of adolescence, as I was raised in an area of DC that had a great deal of heavy metals and WWI-era chemical warfare munitions (lead, arsenic, mercury, phosgene, lewisite, etc.) in the ground and the groundwater. Long story there. Onset of symptoms was very early, but wasn't diagnosed until I was well into my 30s.

The lupus is usually under really good control, and yeah, I take a lot of meds. Over a dozen a day, multiple times a day. I haven't been on any of the heavier drugs for a few years now (such as Embrel), and for that I'm thankful. For the lupus itself I'm on Celebrex & Plaquenil (rheumatoid meds), and several for the Sjögren's. Wish there was something for Reynaud's, especially with winter coming, but there's nothing to be done about that but hope for the best and live with cold hands and feet. And hope I don't get another blood clot from constricted veins (the DVT in my leg was quite horrible and I don't want another one, thank you). Nowadays the main complaint is debilitating fatigue and some seriously odd things going on with my, shall we say, reproductive system that has everyone confounded: horomones check out, as does a scan of the pipe-works. Yet here I am with fully working hormones and a 48-year-old body that thinks it's done with periods. Very odd, and even the endocrinologist is stymied. So, another one for the "lupus does weird things" books.

My SLE tends to affect my gastric system the most (IBS with constipation -- ugh), followed closely by my pulmonary system (bouts of pneumonia where I cough up blood [fun one, that], or even pleurisy and pericarditis [many times, each one, and I'm getting tired of them both]). Most of my meds are for the gastric stuff, nowadays. One of them I have to have specially compounded as it's considered "experimental" in the US despite the fact that it's been sold for years in both Canada and the UK (a motility drug for people, like me, who have neuropathy in the colon and stomach, and therefore have little to no digestive movement without help) -- another reason for me to regret not staying in the UK back in the 80s. But I wouldn't have met my husband, otherwise, and who knows what my life would be like now. (Probably I wouldn't be so bloody out of work all the time, but that's another story altogether.)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Man, that's not good, for the sole fact that you can reel off my working terms - the only difference is that I would use the shorthand. Sounds like you are very uncomfortably familiar with the medical establishment. *hugs carefully* I'm hoping you don't have the renal issues?

[editrx.livejournal.com]

You work in the medical field? (I apologize if I already knew this and forgot ... been a lot of that lately, with the flare-up). I end up explaining lupus a lot as I am the author of THE FIRST YEAR: LUPUS and do lecturing and interviews on the subject altogether too often. (I'm waiting for the go-ahead from the new owners of the imprint -- hurray for mega-corporation buyouts in publishing ... ugh! -- to do 2nd ed. of the entire line. All of the books are so very out of date, especially as regards treatment and drug therapies, not to mention research.)

Nope, no renal issues. I got very lucky. It's possible that what I have is actually primary Sjogren's, as my kidneys and brain (knock wood) are unaffected after this long. However, with the lupus anticoagulant active, it's likely it's non-ANA lupus (which apparently is closer to 45% of the lupus population, unlike what was thought as late as 10 years ago).

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm very firmly entrenched in the medical field - it's noted pretty cryptically in my user info, and perhaps a little even less obviously notable in what I write (ie descriptions of injury will be accurate, regardless of how toned down it is for the average reader - wouldn't want anyone to lose their lunch! *grins*). It sounds as though you're the expert here on lupus - that's great that you are able to use your experience and knowledge of the subject to help others! My expertise in that subject would be in the current diagnostic modalities, grading and staging - and that's fantastic that you do not have renal involvement! Which does suggest that you may have another autoimmune variant of the disease, or perhaps primary Sjogrens, as you have theorized. Are you HLA-B27? Another diagnostic possiblity for that entity would be parotid bx, but involvement can be patchy and not pathognomonic in any respect. Lupus anticoagulants can and often do occur in the abscence of a diagnosis of lupus and can wax and wane, so here's hoping that might go away.

I'll be crossing my fingers that you get a 2nd ed. - now I'll have to go a-looking for your imprint!