Yes I know I am am in danger of becoming a major medical bore but I cannot resist this last bit.

The brother Ted had prostate cancer a few years ago and he also submitted the story of his successful operation to the Irish Times Health section where it was featured.

Last week, because like me he is a man who likes to stir it, he sent a copy of my piece (“Surgeon sings as he works on my heart”) from a few weeks ago in to his surgeon.

His surgeon obviously enjoyed this as he sent him the following reply:

Very nice Ted! You know… I was singing too, but you were asleep. Too
bad, we might have got that into our article!
🙂
Well done to you both.
Must be a new record to have you both record your stories in the IT

It seems it is a family failing to air our operations in public.