The nurse fixed me with a disapproving stare: ‘Why is there such a gap between these prescriptions?’
I had gone for a blood pressure check so I could get my HRT, but when she looked at my notes she could see that they last prescribed it years ago.
In return for countless thousands of pounds of national insurance my parents got my mother’s phone charged
The honest answer to her question was simple: ‘Because you were working from home.’
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