Sorry you’ve been unwell and hope you feel better soon. I had acute appendicitis when I was 7 and spent some time in hospital after an emergency operation. The nurses were very worried about me as I didn’t want to get out of bed and spent my time lying down reading. My mother was a lot less worried as she knew that was my way of recovering. The Midnight Folk by John Masefield and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner were my drugs of choice then but it could just as easily have been Cynthia Harnett though Ring Out Bow Bells gave me nightmares!