'IT WAS at the rugby championship in New Zealand in 2018 that I started getting a dry cough and shivers, as if I had a bad cold. I felt feverish and had a tingling feeling on my skin like gooseflesh.
I wasn’t worried, though, because it didn’t last long. The team doctor, Dr Konrad Von Hagen, took my temperature, which was around 38 degrees. I don’t like to moan about illness, but I told him I felt I had something in my throat that was causing me to cough. He wasn’t sure what it was and put me on a course of antibiotics.
The sensation would come and go. I treated it by having a bath, and my wife gave me injections of Voltaren. It was
