Three years ago to the day, I crashed to the ground with severe acute pancreatitis. My own fault entirely. To mark a diagnosis of diabetes, and being in Cornwall for the holidays, I drank several beakers of single malt, plus a few bottles of burgundy, and the next thing I remember a student nurse was inserting a catheter the size of a hosepipe up what in a Victorian dictionary would be called my ‘organ of generation’. I was in the hospital’s high dependency unit for three weeks and received a ‘get well’ card from film director Bryan Forbes and his actress wife Nanette Newman. They’d mistaken Roger Lewis for Roger Moore.
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Three years ago Roger Lewis was hospitalised with severe pancreatitis
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He has been teetotal since December 2011 and no longer goes to parties
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He says despite the boozelessness he 'adores Christmas more than ever'
In Little Women, one of the monstrous moppets says that @placeholder wouldn’t be Christmas without any presents.