Welcome to My Website
I first set this site up as a portal to links that I frequently use
and to projects that I'm working on. Since I suffered a stroke in late 2004, I have also used it to post occasional snippets and
progress reports. I have made a good recovery but it has been a long process. The challenges that I set myself have often helped me
to keep a positive mindset which is so important when recovering from a debilitating illness. I hope that the
accounts that I've written here might be of interest or possibly useful to someone.
Don't expect to find anything massively important or original but feel free to use anything that you find ... useful. If you want to get in touch, please feel free to use the email form on my contact page.
After my stroke in December 2004, I was determined to get back to as many of my previous activities as possible. My attempt at rock climbing in summer 2006 caught the attention of my rehab team, not least because of the photos taken by Amanda. I was soon asked if I would be interviewed for an article in the local paper. This is the article:
Having been pretty healthy and fit for most of my life, having a stroke at age 41 was a shock. I woke up in the middle of the night with an awful headache and found that I couldn't move the right side of my body. Worse, when I tried to sit up I just toppled over. Alison called an ambulance which rushed me to hospital and by the time I got there I had worked out that I'd had a stroke.