A painful lesson

I sustained a spiral fracture of my tibia while on holiday when I was 14. This was manipulated under sedation, and I was admitted to the local hospital in the south of England. I passed a sleepless night in great pain when the analgesia I had been given for the manipulation wore off. The next morning I was still in too much discomfort to use crutches, and the friends, with whom I had been on an organised adventure holiday, returned home.

I had to wait in hospital until I was fit …