Is the COVID-19 pandemic now a distant memory and did you wonder what all the fuss was about? This was not the case for Allen Yates. During the height of the UK pandemic he contracted a life-threatening COVID-19 infection which led to 102 days in Wythenshawe Hospital, 68 of them in intensive care and half of that time in an induced coma on a ventilator. Whilst he experienced many bouts of delirium his sister Jackie was the only outside contact with the medical teams. Allen has noted the episodes of delirium he experienced and has coupled them with the detailed diary Jackie kept of Allen's condition as his life hung in the balance. Allen's 'crazy' and Jackie's grim reality and the long road to recovery form the basis of this engrossing tale.