The other thing that has come out of it is, and it really started from when I was in hospital, I mean I’d always given blood, which I can’t do now, for no other reason than it was good idea to do. I mean there’s no ulterior motive, it was, somebody had asked me to do it, I did it, Yeah fine. Okay. And subsequently I’ve been introduced to Leukaemia Care because they provide support to the family as the patient is going through the treatment and for some period afterwards. When I was going through treatment I was wheeled out to speak to patients and show them that there was actually life x number of months down the line. I was asked to give talks to nurses, the patient’s perspective. Again, just putting it, and explaining, You’re trained to do this but look at it from our point of view and what it is. I now feel it’s not relevant for me to do that because I’m five years post and the treatment’s changed. So my experience is not necessarily somebody else is going to be going through. But I’ve picked up much more on the charity side of things and got involvement there, taking the experience I’ve had and using it hopefully for some good, get involved in training and those bits and pieces, which I wouldn’t have done otherwise. So yeah, that’s a bit of a change.

And I got involved with consumer research panels, which were a pilot study to try and get more of the patients involved in research projects. And that’s been interesting because patients do have a perspective and clinicians sometimes don’t understand that. So again trying to use the experience, sounds altruistic, it’s not, not meant to be, but it’s trying to use what I’ve experienced and share it so that others can benefit if they can on that score, but going forward what will be will be.

Right. I wanted to ask you how long it took to get your life back to normal once you got home? If indeed it did go back to normal.

Life changes. And I touched on earlier, you sort of look at things slightly differently. Life getting back to normal, I decided to change my life, not in any major way, but I decided to go and do something that I hadn’t, I’d touched on before when I was in employment, part of my life I’d been involved in a setting, taking an American company multi-national in the music industry. And I had had great fun for three or four years setting up companies all round the world, being in at the beginning. And I’d done not a bad job and thought, Well I like property, let’s go and see, go and do something like that. I didn’t particularly want to become a property developer but I wanted to do something connected with property. And so I ended up being part of a team of people who’d bought an old house and have been doing restoration of old properties, which brings different challenges and different looks and things and the way to do things, which is that’s about, and so that changed me on that score, so I did that and that’s there.