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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Stone-age attitudes may be keeping me awake at night

One of the joys of summer is the opportunity it affords to wake in the small hours to engage in a trombone sneezing fit courtesy of near-terminal hay fever. It's a mystery why 40 billion pollen particles choose to party in my bedroom but. having woken the neighbours with my nose music and stumbled around red-eyed and trumpeting in search of a wagonload of nostril-plugging tissues. I stagger back to bed. exhausted but woefully awake.

Nursing Standard. 15, 43, 21-21. doi: 10.7748/ns.15.43.21.s40

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