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I Think There’s Something Wrong With Me Author: Nigel Smith Publisher: Transworld Publishers, 318 pages
I READ this book over two weeks on my daily commute, trying hard to suppress laughter but failing. I had probably persuaded some of my fellow commuters to buy the book if only for the fun factor.
Unlike what its title suggests, this book is not about hypochondriacs. It is a hilarious account about dying – yes, dying. It also includes a variety of ideas on how to offend your healthcare provider.
But how many ways are there to irritate your doctor or nurse, and what could possibly be funny about dying? A lot, actually, says Nigel Smith in his blow-by-blow account of his struggle to defy death.
In 2001, Smith, a British journalist, playwright and sit-com producer, was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. This is an infection of facial nerves, by the same virus responsible for chicken pox, that causes a painful rash and facial muscle weakness.
The doctor’s diagnosis was proved wrong, though, after Smith was admitted the next day for a scan that confirmed a brain lesion . His radiologist implied a death sentence, and doctors were equally unhopeful.
His unidentified brain lesion kept expanding and increasingly affecting Smith’s speech and mobility, and eventually, a series of events worthy of medical TV series ER and House unravelled. And just like some of the entertaining patients on those series, Smith is brash, irreverent, and has a dark streak of humour; and his wife is no walkover either.
And yes, just like on TV, countless tests and therapies in a trial-and-error search for a suitable treatment ensued. Tubes went in and out of Smith’s body and he was pumped with every drug imaginable to stop pain, continue life and suppress symptoms.
His propensity for swearing and cracking jokes, however, did not stop with brain damage. Even when he could not speak, he communicated through a notepad, much to the exasperation of his caregivers – and later, entertainment of his readers.
A little profanity is understandable, I guess, particularly when you are stuck in a hospital ward and there is no running away from needles, drugs that do strange things to your body, and weird room mates.
Miraculously, after all the swearing, praying, poking and prodding, Smith survived to tell his story and was even inspired to make a comedy out of it. His BBC Radio 4 comedy series, Vent , chronicling the life story and fantasies of an unsuccessful writer in a coma bears some similarity to his own experience, as he also spent some time in coma.
For a man who must have been disorientated and in terrible pain, Smith’s description of his surroundings and the people around him is wonderfully detailed and engaging. But then – I’m risking my neck here when I say this – I think you can always count on a journalist to do that, soldier on through everything.
However, some descriptions came from talking to his doctors and his wife when he was writing the book later.
There are times when the jokes get lost in analogies that only the well-read can understand. Testament to Smith’s wide general knowledge, those who have at least a little knowledge about practically everything – but especially history, British bureaucracy, cars, liquor, music, and TV – would be able to appreciate the humour. The rest of us mortals, me included, can always read the book with Google at the ready on our computers.
Or perhaps you have to be disorientated and in pain to get those jokes.
Jokes aside, Smith also offers his readers a peek into the life of a patient in the intensive care unit of a hospital. His experience is something that all healthcare professionals should look into. There’s still the radiographer who says “righto, where’s the body” or doctors who read their patients’ medical histories out loud in a ward.
So, if the world is getting you down, this is the book to read. Not only can it give you solace – hey, your situation could be worse, it could be like Smith’s – it can also give you ideas on how to get the best out of a hospital stay, just in case.
I hope some doctor somewhere will be inspired by this book to write about patient care from his point of view as I’m sure medical practitioners can be just as funny as patients.