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I have a RIMOWA briefcase, or I have had a RIMOWA briefcase. It is shiny aluminium and a trifle large with very purposeful locks. My wife gave it to me four years ago. It has been and gone twice. [Read more…] about Case Closed

It is now over 12 months since my last blog posting. The reason for this hiatus is that I got cancer. And had to undergo some long and complicated surgery which at some stages was life threatening.  There were crises and much surgery had to be done twice. From the time I went under in the operating theatre a number of days were to pass before I was fully conscious. There was loss of blood and oxygen starvation.  I was rescued and rebuilt by a remarkable surgical team under Mr Cyrus Kerawala.

I have seen the theater report of what happened but this story is very much mine; a patient, a layman without either the technical terminology nor the imagination to understand exactly what was done to me. However, I continued to remain under a controlled coma well into the following week. I do not know exactly when I was moved into the Critical Care Unit, I only know that I woke up in full consciousness the following Tuesday morning, a week after the first operation. Over those seven days I was technically unconscious but actually living out a fantastical and complicated trip.

This is the story of that trip which took me, in my mind, to other continents and other places, traveling all the time in my hospital bed. That this was not a dream, but a living experience, is made more certain since I remember it all in extraordinary detail. In this account, I shall interject my waking and conscious experiences when they did occur but, for the main, what now follows is what I experienced in my unconscious state. Rather than a dream, this was my trip. [Read more…] about Back From Eternity