LOST FOR WORDS

Reclining in the chair, my eyes flicked from one side of the room to the other as the dentist poked around in my mouth.

‘I’m going to refer you for a biopsy,’ he said.

It was 2015, and I’d had the same white patch on my tongue for almost five years.

To be honest, I was pretty unfazed by the whole thing.

It didn’t hurt and you could barely see it.

And when the biopsy returned a diagnosis of oral thrush, I still wasn’t too worried.