How I Rescued My Brain (2014)
“On the third day, after a long walk, we washed away the mud, went into the library at the guesthouse, and sat by an open fire, playing games and drinking tea, before dinner.
Then my phone rang. It was my sister. ‘Dad’s been taken to hospital. The nurse came and found him in bed, unable to get up.’ Dad hadn’t called us the previous Sunday evening, as he usually did. I hadn’t worried: sometimes he didn’t ‘get around to it’ because of the time it took him to complete his daily routine, or beca...use he’d been to a meeting for some political cause he was involved with. These calls had become exasperating, what with his increasing hearing loss. We’d shout down the line, but he couldn’t decipher most of what we said. Yet just hearing our voices was reassuring for him, I thought.
‘Don’t cut short your holiday,’ my sister said. ‘I’ll let you know if you need to come down.’ This was a relief. Still, I felt uneasy. Dad didn’t give much away about his health.MoreLess
Then my phone rang. It was my sister. ‘Dad’s been taken to hospital. The nurse came and found him in bed, unable to get up.’ Dad hadn’t called us the previous Sunday evening, as he usually did. I hadn’t worried: sometimes he didn’t ‘get around to it’ because of the time it took him to complete his daily routine, or beca...use he’d been to a meeting for some political cause he was involved with. These calls had become exasperating, what with his increasing hearing loss. We’d shout down the line, but he couldn’t decipher most of what we said. Yet just hearing our voices was reassuring for him, I thought.
‘Don’t cut short your holiday,’ my sister said. ‘I’ll let you know if you need to come down.’ This was a relief. Still, I felt uneasy. Dad didn’t give much away about his health.MoreLess
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