I have a friend who lost a whole year of her life. She'll never get that back. The physical reminders of that year are a tracheotomy scar and the weight she still needs to lose. The emotional ones are harder to spot.
The story of how she lost a year of her life is amazing, scary and almost unbelievable.
She contributed to a radio program about the condition that caused her illness. You can listen to it here, there's also a transcript of the piece. It's fairly long but worth listening to.
I rang Ros for her birthday a few years ago and was told she wasn't well. Within a couple of days she was in the psych ward of the local hospital supposedly suffering a nervous breakdown. Within weeks she was fighting for her life in an Adelaide hospital. Who would have thought a little, benign tumour could wreak so much havoc...
