They're Trying to Kill Me

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Be prepared for the worst-he might not make it</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> the consultant told Lisa. There is a high risk that the patient may not survive this. He is still in multi-organ failure with continual signs of infection. If he deteriorates further there may be nothing else we can do and he may die.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He doesn't remember the journey to hospital. Within a few hours of arriving Paul was placed in an induced coma. He remained in this state for nearly 30 days quickly facing a battle against pleurisy double pneumonia sepsis a perforated colon and kidney failure requiring dialysis. His organs were shutting down.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Does Lisa start planning a funeral or a welcome-home party?</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diagnosed with OCD and PTSD these conditions controlled his life-the compulsion to steal only ham stock cubes from shops was unstoppable and parking the car precisely within the white boundary lines of a bay was an exhausting obsession.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His mum doesn't know about his illness or hospitalisation. Eventually he calls her after nearly two months of silence. They talk for a while. It is the last time they will ever speak-she dies four days later.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The prayers have been answered. Paul returns to his family and Team Henderson. The nightmare ends-only for a new journey to begin. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>One that leads to a horror story that doesn't end until he starts writing his experiences down. Or does it?</em></strong></p>