ChrisI can’t make you better.
“What’s it like, having a brain tumour?” Asked everyone, secretly. I’m willing to bet that’s a question you’d like to ask but there’s no short and easy answer. Just look at the length of this post. When my brain tumour first showed up on a scan it was almost like…
A big day.
When I was diagnosed as seriously ill, I started to prepare for the ultimate catastrophe: being dead. That really would be a bump in the road to recovery. Funnily enough I was actually least concerned about me. Perhaps it’s common in serious conditions. I know very little about a terminal…
Does he really need that stick?
The first rule of stick club is that you need to have a stick. A common phrase I’ve come across is, “Not every disability is visible,” which is very true. I finally accepted I needed a walking stick because I kept veering into other people or, rather more worryingly, lurching…
King of the road: giving up driving.
“Sir, based on the information you’ve just provided you’re going to have to stop driving immediately and return your licence to us.” The DVLA Drivers Medical Group know how to tell it like it is. That was the end of the conversation I had with them two days before my…