Seven years ago, a consultant cardiologist stood at the end of my hospital bed with five or six people he never introduced, and he told me I had severe heart failure. Seven years on, I’ve just finished circumnavigating the whole of Wales on foot. I did it in around 80 stages, a total of around 1000 miles across some of the most rugged coastal and hill terrain in Britain.
I tell my story in this way for several reasons. Firstly, I want to remind everyone that doctors still break bad news to patients in the crassest ways, without either privacy …