Gertcha.

I had bacterial meningitis over 30 years ago and came within an ace of dying pretty painfully or incurring life-changing disabilities,

https://www.meningitis.org/meningitis-in-your-words/robin-tudge

But thankfully the staff at Liverpool's Royal University Hospital were on their game ... and I'm approaching 51 already - yay!

I'm raising funds to counter this hideous disease and its evil impacts by way of hiking the Cheviot 99 hills before 2025 is out (I've come to love hiking and so am genning up to do all the Wainwrights, Donalds, and Munros at least, too, but that's all later).