I have drifted into the kingdom of the unwell – will I ever escape? | Brigid Delaney's diary

It started with a cough and it’s gone downhill from there. But with my sick body comes the realisation we’re only an illness away from another life

I started coughing as soon as I landed in Colombo.

My cough was nothing, a small annoyance that sounded petty, as though I disapproved of the person I was talking to but didn’t want to come out and say so. It was peevish and prim. “Cer cer. Cer cer.” When I coughed, people looked almost imperceptibly annoyed, as though I was correcting them on a pronunciation or something. My cough embarrassed me. I tried to suppress it.

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