After illness: things are never the same again

When I read about fellow author Stephanie Butland’s article about why coping with life after cancer is harder than the treatment (links to Daily Mail website – my apologies), I felt I’d found a kindred soul.

A decade ago, I had multiple life-saving lung surgeries after being diagnosed with recurrent right-sided pneumothoraces.

After it was all over, the procedures, the time in hospital, the half-recovery, like Stephanie, I didn’t bounce back.

For whatever reason, my right lung had started to...