The Reluctant Patient

Three tubes of blood went in. A small database of results came back. I've since discovered they can take nine.

Two numbers that are surprisingly difficult to measure properly — and mine have an irritating habit of being too high.

The doctor thought my sight might be in danger and handed me an urgent prescription for Brolene. Finding the right eye drops proved rather less straightforward.

Red eye, sore eye, gunk coming out of it. “Eye infection” sounds straightforward enough. Unfortunately, eyes have other ideas.

I thought I had an eye infection. Then somebody who knew what they were looking at found I'd damaged the bit of the eye I actually see through.

There are lots of reasons why you might not be able to hear properly. Some are easily fixed. Some need rather more urgent attention.

Once known as the disease of kings. Now known as the reason even a bedsheet can become an instrument of torture.