Hello, I am Hamish Thorne and this is The Slow Lane Back, a show about the long stretch of recovery after the doctors are done with you. For the first episode I am going to tell you about my own return to teaching, 14 months after treatment for lymphoma. I went back on half days, which sounded gentle and turned out to be the hardest term of my career. We will go through the email I sent to the staff, which I rewrote nine times, the two sentences I used with my students, the lessons I could not get to the end of, and the 3pm nap that I eventually stopped apologising for. At the end I will give you three questions I wish my school had asked me before I walked back in. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.