The children’s author and poet, 74, tells Donna Ferguson about surviving coronavirus, enjoying getting older and moping all weekend when Arsenal lose
I’m only alive because my wife and our friend who is a GP had a sense that I was on a downward spiral with coronavirus and got me to A&E. But I’ve got no recall of being critically ill it because I was in an induced coma. I’m only finding out now how the NHS saved my life while I was in intensive care for nearly seven weeks.
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