The day I find myself unable to carry my nine-month-old grandson is the day I decide to go to the doctor. I pick him up, but suddenly find my heart is pumping out of control and get scared I’m going to drop him.In fact, I’ve been feeling breathless for about five days now. I’ve put it down to a lack of sleep, or to Covid — it is November 2020, after all, although tests have come back negative. But this racing heart is different. This unnerves me.Still, I genuinely feel no sense of foreboding as I rock up at the Cromwell Hospital in West to see the respiratory specialist who, just four months before, cured my husband, the actor Johnnie Standing, of a chest infection. Surely that’s all I need too — a prescription for strong antibiotics and a bit of rest.
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