Dear all,
Thank you so much for your kind words, best wishes and support - all of which is very much and sincerely appreciated.
It’s never lucky to have a stroke, but if there is any luck to this then it’s the stroke was to the right side of my brain which affected my left peripheral vision, balance, cognitive processing and caused a number of post-stroke absence seizures of which the doctors and nursing staff say will heal over time with rest, rehabilitation and ongoing medication. The outcome may have been very different if the stroke had been to the left side............
This has come as a complete shock - none of my close friends and family thought that I was a candidate for a stroke! But who is? Although my stroke wasn’t the classic ‘head on fire’ depicted in the TV ads, it was a slow burn, but my mistake was to ignore the feeling that something wasn’t right and to continue to think it would pass rather than go to hospital. So a hard lesson learned.
Kind regards,
Andrew
