Why Does This Document Exist?

One of the joys of the Web is that, in any situation, you can fire up your web browser, hop to your search engine of choice and find out lots of information. When I had my stroke it didn't work out that way: there's lots of stuff out there on strokes, but not relatively minor ones like mine, and just because they're not as bad doesn't mean they're good, and doesn't mean you don't need help and information, so here goes. This will undoubtedly evolve over time, for now it's largely a "this is what happened to me" which I hope you find useful if you're going through something similar.

NB: the dates on early entries are a lie, they're the dates events happened not the date I wrote them. I had other things on my mind then!