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 has no status set at the moment

Wiblog:
A Christmas of Films

If anything has marked out this Christmas as something out of the ordinary it's been the quality and variety of the films I've seen. As usual much respect to the great Dr Kermode for pointing me in the right direction for some of the less obvious choices. Some of these are DVDs Santa Beth gave me, the others are movies I caught on iPlayer. read more ...