There were some very humorous and interesting experiences in the T.B. hospital! I had never really been in hospital before, except for very minor things. So this was a whole new learning experience. The first thing that I learnt was that they stick needles in you in hospital at every touch and turn, and indeed that they take great delight in it. On my way to hospital, speeding along with the blue lights flashing, all that I could think of was needles! I hated needles, and voided them where at all possible, but I had a real sense of foreboding this time.

“They won’t stick needles in me will they?” I asked the ambulance man, praying for the answer that I wanted to hear. And I got it.

“Oh no love, don’t worry about that,” he replied.

He was a liar! The first thing they did when I got to…