Stroke

On Sunday 3rd February 2002, aged 41, I had a stroke. A relatively unusual event for someone of my age. Being me I've documented it here.

Here you can find:

My raw diary of events which you can also read as an RSS feed
Dealing with the DVLA - read it and weep
Living a low alcohol life - ways I've found to keep drinking while on AEDs
Symptoms - what's wrong with me now
The NHS - how the service varies
Using CBT - how it helped with some of the symptoms
Links - to other web sites about strokes

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul is pretty much as far north as he can go on Skye and is settled in for the night.

Wiblog:
On borrowing e-books

Our county council has recently started offering a fairly limited range of e-books for loan. Their web site has an extensive FAQ which explains how it works. It has three curious features (in what follows I'm going to assume you understand about DRM, if you don't then start by reading the FAQ): read more ...