Let's not "knock it", folks!

I'd like to acquaint the "doubters" with an experience I had in my formative years.
At Primary School, a black-haired, dark-skinned female classmate "predicted" I would die when I was ten years old. In the [evidently mistaken] belief that I was a healthy lad, I laughed it off. Shortly afterwards, I was rushed to hospital by ambulance. Turned out I'd a ruptured appendix ... and had to undergo emergency surgery outwith normal operating hours. Just as well, because my parents were informed it been "touch and go". This was in November 1954 ... when peritonitis was potentially lethal! I then had to have a "drain" inserted to clear the poison from my system ... added to which, I received twice-daily injections of penicillin in my

before being allowed home.
I've never forgotten that episode in my life ... when I very nearly died!
