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What would you do if you were trapped in a hopeless situation and all you faced was despair and death? In 2003 the author was admitted to hospital with what transpired to be advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Over the next six months he was to lose two major organs, suffer a blood clot on the lung, a brain stem stroke and a 'do not resuscitate' order was placed on him. Shortly after this, treatment for the lymphoma was found to be totally ineffective. It was at this point, at less than half his normal bodyweight, the doctors deemed survival impossible. Twenty years after his recovery the author details the strategy he adopted - where he strove to function as a machine that denied the present and programmed the future.
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A H FitzSimons was born in Johnstone, near Glasgow, in 1958. He served in the British Army in the 1970s and 1980s before joining Lothian and Borders Police. He studied at Telford and Napier Colleges in Edinburgh, winning two Scottish Business Education Council Awards, including the C.A. Oakley gold medal, before graduating in 1988. He began writing in 2005 following a sixteen month stay in hospital.
