:52:09
Vera told you about my father's operation?
Did she tell you what it was for?
:52:15
She couldn't bring herself
to go into much detail.
:52:19
No. That's understandable.
:52:22
- Shall I tell you?
- It's too late.
:52:24
No, I want to tell you. It started last year
when my parents were moving house.
:52:29
They hired a removals company
to shift most of the furniture.
:52:34
Beds, sofas, and so forth.
:52:36
Some of the smaller stuff - the odd chair,
paintings - they moved themselves.
:52:42
My father was carrying this chair
up the stairs in the new house when...
:52:50
- It's OK.
- It was a very heavy wooden chair and...
:52:54
- You don't have to tell me.
- No, it's all right. It helps to talk about it.
:53:01
As he was going up the stairs
with this chair, he dropped it,
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and it landed on his foot.
:53:10
It was all forgotten until a few weeks later
when suddenly his big toe started...
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curling in.
:53:17
For months my mother tried
to get him to see somebody,
:53:20
until finally,
as a treat on her birthday, he did.
:53:23
And do you know what
the shocking diagnosis was, Mandy?
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Ingrown toenail!
Naturally we were all devastated.
:53:31
His chances of recovery are pretty good.
:53:33
It's somebody else whose chances of
survival have just plummeted to zero.
:53:39
Perhaps you can understand now
why I kept it from you for so long.
:53:46
Hello?
:53:47
- Mandy, is Colin with you?
- Yeah, he is.
:53:50
- There's a Vera Edwards on the line.
- Put her through.
:53:53
It's your friend.