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This is a really tough blog post for me and I have written it on a particularly bad day for me. I will tell you what depression feels...

1. You don't look as if you have had a stroke? I have heard this many times. The perception of many people is that if you have had a...

The 17th April 2021 is my 5th birthday - it is 5 years since I suffered my stroke so I am 5 new years old. For some reason this appears...

This is a tough post for me as it tries to explain what it is like for ME living with MY stroke. I decided to write this after a...

I have posted before about running after my stroke and I also posted extensively about running the London Marathon. This post is a more...

Sometime ago I did a blog about things that you can learn about being a stroke survivor from Star Wars movies. I decided that I would...

The marathon is only 26.2 miles and takes between 2 and 7 hours depending on your fitness and running ability. My journey was a lot...

I did a talk to the Suffolk Stroke Pathway Professional Network seminar. It was quite a challenge for me but it seemed to go well. It...

It's not often that I write a blog post so quickly after something that has happened but this week I did something that I never thought I...

You go through life without any real idea of the impact that you leave as you make your way in the world. I have said on a number of...

From earlier blog posts you will have found out that I had my stroke after running the Ickworth Park 10k which was organised by Hoohah....

I saw a post on Twitter about a runner that related quotes from the Star Wars franchise to his running experiences. I thought it was a...

Today (17 April 2017) is an important day, it's a day that most stroke survivors have feelings about, some will celebrate, some will...

Many of you will know that I am a keen runner. I am not a great runner and have no aspirations to be nothing more than a keen plodder...

In my last post I said I would do a post about the rehabilitation I have undertaken and what it has achieved. Fairly soon after my stroke...

We all go through our lives with very little thought to our own mortality. We hardly ever think how fragile life is and how our decisions...

It has been a very long time since I have posted anything in my blog. The reason I haven't posted is that I discovered that my parents...

I haven't posted for a little while and thought it was about time that I did an update.  It's difficult to remember all the things that...

I will start this blog with a picture, it's quite a positive quote, it seemed to sum up what it is like to have a stroke and to survive....

My wish for one day: I will wake up and not have to think what challenge I will face today I will not have to explain why I struggle with...