I nearly had spinal surgery yesterday 🙃

First off, I want to apologise for not getting an email out to you yesterday. I called the hospital yesterday morning to see if some weird symptoms I'd been experiencing relating to my arthritis were anything to worry about, and as a result I spent about four hours waiting to hear if I was going to need emergency spinal surgery. Luckily the MRI I'd had on Monday was the exact thing they'd send me for if I went to A&E, so I didn't have to spend a painful 8-hours with a (ahem) cross-section of...