Things about aneurysms I could have learnt from Eli Stone

3 May 2009, 15:55

Late last year, my mum gave me a hot tip about the “new” show Eli Stone. My mum is rarely wrong with her T.V recommendations – Waking the Dead, Wire in the Blood, Silent Witness and Spooks are all shows we wouldn’t have bothered with before mum put her 5 cents worth in. But when she mentioned Eli Stone, I already had a jam-packed viewing schedule, so I didn’t give it a second thought.

In March, so hard up was I for good T.V material, I teed Eli up on the Tivo, thinking I’d give it a go. It was already halfway through the second season and I had no idea the show was about a bloke (Johnny Lee Miller, who reminds me of an ex-boyfriend, but let’s not hold that against him) who has an inoperable brain aneurysm.

Had I taken mum’s advice only a few months earlier, I could have been mentally prepared for my own brush with Annie, purely from Eli Stone episodes:

... Having a nutty father could be a bad sign and may herald said aneurysm in both you and aforementioned father. That could explain 30 odd years of my having an odd father. Or it could be just that my father is. odd. for no clinical reason. And that oddness is hereditary.

... Sustaining decent romantic relationships is a tough ask, particularly if you were to jump onto your own engagement cake and embarrass the crap out of your fiancee. I guess that explains my uncharacteristic showing at karaoke the night of McG and my engagement party. Crazy thing is we actually did get and have stayed married.

... Delusions of grandeur are quite OK and explainable if you have a brain aneurysm. Well, hello! Of course they are, everyone knows we’re a fucking special as all shit bunch. Prophets are made from us – just ask me!

... Seeing George Michael in your lounge room is never a good thing. Actually, seeing George Michael anywhere, ever, is never a good thing.

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