I signed straight away, of course, but as I tell the story in the show, I reflect that I had a split second in which I thought of what the doctor said about Eddie. Which was that as he went off to sleep, he wouldn’t have known that he was dying. The way it works with the meningitis bacterium is that if it gets into the bloodstream, the way the doctor put it was that, the bacteria multiplies very quickly, produces antigens, and inside your body turns to mush. I remember saying, ‘Well, would you have known about that?’ And he said, ‘No, he wouldn’t have known anything at all.’
Michael Rosen: ‘I studied meningitis so I could put my son’s death in context’
