Thursday came and went.
Weird Doctor — as we had come to call him — had mentioned, almost in passing, that there was a chance I might be able to go home on Thursday. I knew it was unlikely. I had a senior oncology appointment with Dr Rana...
I should tell you about Claude.
Claude is an AI. An artificial intelligence assistant made by a company called Anthropic. You type to it, or speak to it, and it responds. It answers questions, writes things, explains things, helps you think things th...
I wasn't prepared for what happened when I started sharing.
I'd expected kind messages. I'd expected people to say they were thinking of me, that they were sorry, that they hoped I'd be okay. That's what people say, and they...
I don't remember much about arriving.
The ambulance from Hull Royal, the transfer, the early hours of Saturday morning — it's all fragments. What I do remember is sleeping. Deeply, completely, the kind of sleep that takes you somewhere...
We arrived at Thornbury Hospital just before seven in the morning.
It didn't feel like a hospital. Not in the way I'd come to know hospitals over the preceding weeks. We were shown quickly into a private room — comfortable, calm, more ...
