I’m sitting on a cardiac time bomb — and that’s not the end of my tale of woe

Dr Paul Nisselle.

In the Alan Bennett play, The History Boys, a teacher asks one of his students, a North Country lad, why he doesn’t like studying history.

“History?” he replies. “It’s just one fooking thing after another.”

Well, that’s been my August.

First, I found an enlarged node in my neck.