The 111 call that saved my life

The accompanying screengrab is a record of a call I made to 111 that ultimately saved my life. I will keep this screengrab as a reminder of what might have been had I not made the call. After the ordeal I went through, a surgeon at Ealing Hospital told me that without the life-saving surgery I quickly received, I had only 12 hours to live. There is a parallel universe that makes me shudder every time I think about it. A universe where my wife would have been widowed. A universe where my kids would have been without a dad.…