John Tothill

And this doctor, she took me into a curtained off area.

And she said, look, I don't know what's wrong with you, but...

She said, the good news is for things like abdominal pain, she said, you've actually, you've left it a very long time to come in.

I'd left it seven or eight days, something like that.

So she said, because you've left it so long, it's unlikely to be anything that serious.

With these abdominal things, if it's something like a, if it's appendicitis or if it's a perforated bowel or something like that, she said, you'd have been dead by now, right?

So she said, actually, the fact that you're still here means it's probably quite mild.

It'll be an infection.

We'll figure out what it is.

We'll give you some tablets, and you can go home.

You can probably do your show tonight, if not tomorrow.

Great, fine.

Took me for a load of scans, figure out what was going on.

And she came back with quite a confused, quite grave look on her face.

And she said, okay, you're not going to believe this, but it is appendicitis.

And I said, oh, isn't that funny?

And she said, no.

In her words, she said, your appendix has not just become infected.

She said, it hasn't even just ruptured, which is the usual sort of worst case scenario for appendicitis.

She said, your appendix ruptured days ago.