Having my life saved is the most extraordinary adventure I've ever had.'When musician and writer Mathias Malzieu is taken ill one ordinary day in November, he has no idea that he will shortly be diagnosed with a terrifyingly rare and life-threatening blood disease. What follows is a year spent in and out of hospital, including several months in an isolation room. But Malzieu manages to transform tragedy into thrills, pain into poetry. To read this book is to fall back in love with what it means to be alive.