Health is precious, we should not take it for granted

Waters’ knee injury was bad enough but the sorry tale of how his body has angrily rejected the screws placed in his knee to keep it together is the epitome of frustration.

A month ago, I would have read the coverage of Tomás Waters’ terrible knee injury and subsequent ill-health with a 21st century level of interest.

By that I mean I would have left sufficient gaps between the sips of latte to feel bad for his misfortune before quickly moving onto a video of a bulldog sliding down a flight of stairs while asleep or scrolling through the timeline of the latest Twitter spat between a pair of social media heavyweights I wouldn’t recognise in the street.