“I feel like I’m fading away” were the words that I spoke to the on call Doctor22nd September 2018. 

The doctor was so nice as she held my hand. One of the nicest I had ever met. The other doctor had taken my husband and daughter down stairs  so they could each speak to each of us individually I suppose.

My doctor looked at me and asked, what did I mean by what I’d said. I felt at the time it was a very natural answer to her question of what did she think was happening to me. I simply said, “I’m fading away”. What I felt then could be interpreted in many different ways now I suppose. But, as they were there primarily to check out my heart and pulse, I believed that one day my heart would simply stop. She looked at me with such concern in…