“If they had taken a holistic view of my body they could have sorted it long ago,” he says. “They never got to the root cause. They even once operated on the back of my knee but never looked at the front. I would have paid for an expert if I had had the money. It had got to the point where my life wasn’t worth anything. I couldn’t work, or sleep, or function. It was only a picture of my daughter and two-year-old granddaughter that kept me going. It took me almost to the end of my sanity. I understand why people take their lives.”