Ginger Bear wrote:Andrew,
It was good to meet you again at Stafford this year, Until you told me, I didn't realise what had happened.
It would have been easy to keep things to yourself, but by sharing it, you just may have saved someone else.
Thanks Steve, I think it's important to be open about these things, because it may just jog someone's memory if they experience similar symptoms.
I was very grateful to my good mate 'Dangerous Dave' for diving me up to Stafford and although we didn't stay long it was good to be there, walk about and catch-up with you and the other guys on the club stand.
Although it was a scary time in hospital and for some time afterwards, but I am very lucky there is no lasting physical damage. I passed the second part of my eye test last week, as I did have disrupted vision and a loss of peripheral vision in my left eye - all of which has returned. So that's a tick in the box towards getting my licence back in July.
I do have issues processing info sometimes and occasionally find myself searching for words and saying the wrong thing. The CT scan taken at the time showed a blot clot to the right side of my brain; the dark grey blobs are the dead brain cells - many would argue they've been dead for years!
But the brain is an amazing thing and the left side finds differents pathways for processing info etc.
On a lighter note, my wife Bev hates my son wearing his cap backwards, so he plonked it on her head in hospital and quickly took a photo. But something tells me he wasn't really taking her photo, but of Yasmine, the lovely young consultant who was looking after me......
Cheers,
Andrew