malabsorption and therefore causing fatigue; it's likely that my brain tumour is implicated, either as a symptom or potentially a root cause. More testing to be done I guess!

I genuinely don't think it was a con. What scares me more is that these... People... Genuinely thought they could do better than experienced, seasoned professionals in the sectors they've worked in for years.

It's peak narcissism and it backfired (as most narcissistic plans do) spectacularly.

So it looks increasingly like I have potentially potassium and magnesium malabsorption issues.

I often use OpenVPN Connect instead of their client but frustratingly the .ovpn files supplied by NordVPN require manual editing to remove invalid configuration entries in order to use them. It's been this way for over a year.