Yesterday was a long day, and did not deliver all that I hoped.<\/p>\n
Let me be clear, I was treated quite brilliantly by staff who could not have been more helpful or caring. But, and there always seems to be a but about these things, what I learned as a result of the treatment was that this will be the first of potentially three such episodes, and I was warned that the chance that the pain will go away is, at present, quite low.<\/p>\n
What I now understand is that my priority for the next week or two is to work out how to manage that, because it is so severe when it happens. There\u2019s also a need to get over the sheer fatigue this week, which is not helped by the hot weather.<\/p>\n
That said, my head is full of ideas. When you can\u2019t do much, you have to work out what your priorities are. At this moment, and I admit that I may not be at my most objective, my sense is that spending a great deal of my time pointing out the failings of our current neoliberal politicians, including Andy Burnham, is not the most useful thing I can do. The existence of these failings is apparent to absolutely everyone, but the reality is that almost no one is talking about what we can do about them.<\/p>\n
In that case, I feel I need to focus on where we can go from here, not on what has gone wrong. So, when I can find the energy, that is what I intend to do over the next few days, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"