Dad: But the stretchy trousers were a kind of suggestion from one of the nurses, it’s like ‘Well, try these before we go down the compression bandage route because, actually they’re all bespoke, they all take time to make, so not particularly comfortable, whereas the stretchy trousers we’ve had success with. Try them, see what happens. If it doesn’t work, we’ll still go down that option but, you know, for your benefit try them, because you can have a dozen pairs of stretchy trousers from whichever running shop in question, you can wash them every day. Whereas your bespoke bandages you’re getting one and … and when it breaks, we get you another one.’

William: It’s like, so the first pair of…

Dad: Running trousers, weren’t they?

William: Yeah, running trousers, they had a pocket in the back of them, which wasn’t very comfortable because the zip kept on digging into me. So, basically my mum bought some which didn’t have pockets in and they were much more comfortable.

William: You’re supposed to wear them 23 hours a day. And they were actually really impressed because I wore them 23.5 hours a day, just that short amount of time, to actually shower and get changed. The rest of the time I was wearing them.

So, you were happy to wear them a lot?

Yeah, they’re comfortable.

Yeah, at some points they did speak to me like I was a grown-up, but in other points no, they spoke to me like a child. So, when I had just come in, they were speaking… well, what, from what I could actually hear, they were speaking to me like I, in very, very simple words that I knew what was going on but didn’t have to actually do any brain processing power to actually know what was going on. Whilst later on, they did use more complicated words but, but yeah.