That doctor sat in that room on the ninth of March, 2022, and watched a man not answer and his wife answer for him, and wrote both halves down, and moved on — because she had eleven more that day and because you cannot make a grown man speak.
She left a record of the exact moment.
It has been in a file in Ardwell for three and a half years with both of us on it, him for not saying and me for saying.
And the photograph of the bin bags, which is still out there and which I have had to go and deal with.
I took it down after four hours. That is not the same as it being gone.
Two people had saved it. One of them is a woman I was at school with who put it up again in the November with a caption that was kind about me and vile about him.
