At the end of the trial, how did you feel when it all stopped?
…I expected to feel like a guinea pig, but the doctor was particularly sensitive, and obviously had a genuine interest in asthma and chest conditions. And he sort of did a full debrief, really, and for example, I found through the test that apparently I had fluctuating levels of white blood plasma, which was slightly alarming, but I was glad that he’d pointed it out. He said that it may have been to do with the serum, or it may have been to do with a local infection that I’d had during the trial. But he didn’t have a complete answer to it, but he did take the trouble to discuss it with me and thank me for taking part. And I felt that - he made me feel in fact - that I’d contributed. So at the end I didn’t feel like a guinea pig, although I had expected to, yeah.
It may sound an odd question, but did you miss it once it finished?
Sort of, yeah, yes. Yes, I did, kind of, yeah, yes. I appreciated the relationship with this particular doctor. I found him very interesting and over the course of the months I sort of developed a proper relationship with him, and it’s always interesting to have access to a doctor’s knowledge when it’s not, you know, in a surgery. It’s sort of privileged information, really, which, yeah, I found very interesting, yeah.
Yeah, I had no misgivings after it ended. I did feel as if I’d contributed positively to something, and that it had been worthwhile, you know, yeah.
