The staff, all girls, were fantastic. ?I had three nurses in the procedure room, one of them wielding the camera and explaining what was happening on the screen. ?There was one period of discomfort, for which I sucked a bit of Entonox, but it wasn’t really pain and once I considered that all was going well I could ignore it. ?There was plenty of banter and medical-level jokery; if it weren’t for the purging that you have to do beforehand, and the 24 hours of no food, I’d be happy to do it every week.

I was in trouble with my wife because I walked out of the hospital (Dorchester) to find her, instead of waiting patiently at the entrance. ?I’m never good at patience. ?And I’m feeling a little woozy now.

But it means that I ought to consider a gastroscopy to check the top end. ?And I really don’t like them.

Cheers

Chris