Fergus Finlay: Insane political moments kept me going through months of pain

Now I have the dilemma that I can sleep normally again, but there’s a Democratic Convention to watch all this week

Former US President Donald Trump. Thank goodness for politics. Not our politics this time, but throughout the entire period that I was awake, night after night, two huge psychodramas were playing out in the UK and the States.

It came at me out of the blue and was completely inexplicable. For a little while, I almost thought it was going to do me in. But it hasn’t.

It was early in April, and I suddenly woke up. When I looked at my watch, it was 4.20am. I was woozy for a minute — you know that way — wondering what had woken me up. It dawned on me slowly enough that I had a really severe pain in my leg, across the shin bone. When I tried to stand on it, I gave a little shriek of pain. But I couldn’t make myself comfortable lying down either.