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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

Don't you get the feeling we've been here before? I know I have.

Have you noticed that every day I get a little bit stronger?

Every day, I actually got my best night's sleep that I'd had in ages last night.

Mainly the combination of the drugs, thank God with the NHS, and the painkillers.

So I'm sort of taking the drugs to stop the pain, and then I take the painkiller as well. And yesterday it seemed to work

quite well. In fact, but believe it or not, I mean, you know, they had a thing the other day

I was just watching, it made me cry. And it was in America and it was a young lad who'd been

involved in a car accident and he'd lost the use of his legs. But the one thing he wanted to do is when they gave them all, they do this thing for students. They give them, they will throw their hats in the air and all the best. He wanted to walk across the stage and pick up his award. He'd never done it before after the accident and he did it. And it just brought, you know, thousands of people in the school to their feet

because he'd made some sort of achievement.

And I looked on myself in that kind of way the other day.

And I actually managed to get on a bus, go all the way to Chiswick,

and then get, I couldn't get what I wanted, I had to come back on another bus.

And I managed to sort of do the both journeys without

needing to go to the toilet, which in itself is an achievement. If you've been in that

situation before, where you're sort of thinking, oh, that's nice, isn't it? I've achieved something

today. I actually managed to get on a bus and not managed to go to the toilet because I've had some

really touch and go moments. And so I looked on that as a bit of

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