Stay Outside, Avoid the NHS, Safe Life
I am what is known in the current climate as "shielding". This is due to an inherited chronic condition delightfully known as Crohn's Disease. I have experienced well known symptoms of this inconvenience since I can remember, certainly since I was around ten years of age. They have gradually become more severe during my life, but the first really bad attack happened when I was sixteen. I was out on my bike with a friend, we were delivering "Imperial Cancer" lottery tickets, and having finished the round, we were celebrating with a visit to the sweet shop. I was waiting outside while my friend Rob was buying his sweets, minding his bike, I was straddling the crossbar of my bike, and wham, the nastiest pain that I had ever felt bent me double, and I screamed in pain. I managed to get home and my mother called for the doctor. GP's used to make home visits in those days, I was given an anti-histamine called Phenergan, and I went to bed and eventually fell aslee
