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Low life

I’m hoping and praying for a continuation of potency

'Are you in pain, Mr Clarke?' 'Absolute agony'

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

I’ve had a medical procedure that is ‘likely’ to leave me impotent. A nurse is coming around dishing out Tramadol, a painkiller of the morphine family. I raise my hand smartly. She steers her drugs trolley towards me and my bed in the corner of the six-bed male ward. ‘Are you in pain, Mr Clarke?’ ‘Absolute agony,’ I say.

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