HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS

I’ll be writing about my collapse, surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, by turns hilarious and horrific, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite humans, but ‘Halflings’.

Waking up in Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital emergency room last month feeling fresh as a daisy after swallowing 28 Zopiclone a few hours earlier - even as I felt ashamed at wasting the time of the hard-pressed NHS staff who treated me with such courtesy and care - a tiny part of me couldn’t help reflecting on my truly epic capacity for drugs. I…