Interview 28  

Interview 28

Age at Interview: 46
Sex: Male
Background: Occupation: steel shutter fitter. Marital status: married. Number of children: 4. Ethnic Background: White British.

Brief outline:Was admitted to intensive care in 2004 because of septicaemia. Spent about 7 weeks in intensive care and 4 weeks in a general ward.


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He looks better than before his illness because he has stopped smoking, gained weight and eats more healthily.

 



I think everybody says I look better now than I ever have done because I don't smoke anymore you see. I'm a weight I've never been before, put a lot of weight on, cheeks and you know, because I've always been ten stone four since I left school. And I'm forty what am I now, forty-six now, I know I don't look it but I am. And I've been ten stone four since I left school. All my life, I eat and drink beer and never put weight on. Now I'm nearing twelve stone. I've not smoked for nearly twelve month and that's probably to do with it because I'm eating a lot more.  

So I've just put weight on and I have pictures I could show you, what I used to look like to see this, and everybody says I look better than ever. In fact last night I were at pub and one of the lad's went, "Are you coming this way?" He's a Pakistani lad who's a mate of mine, known me years. He said, "I've just been watching you up here, I don't believe how you now look now," how I used to look. He said, "You looking better now the way, then when you even..." That's what people say to me. I look better, funny that innit?  

That's good, and you gave up smoking, you are eating very healthily you mentioned before the interview, you're eating lots of fresh fruit and veg?

And fruit, yeah, well she [wife], basically I eat all the proper stuff now.

Jonathan Miller - Intensive care
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