Ear, Nose Throat and STROKE!
Tuesday the 17 March 1998 15:30 Gordon Brown had just started his budget speech, when I felt the cushions
I was laying against fall away from me, well that's how it seemed to me. Little did I know at this stage but my first stroke had hit me, two hours later I had another, the last was about 04:00 in the morning all I could remember was falling just falling until the right side of my body touched the floor. I had lost all use in the left side of my body, I cannot begin to explain the fear that was going through me, or my wife Pat, for that matter.
Pat had to keep a clear head, the doctor was called and I was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary ending up on the Ear, Nose and Throat ward but I knew little of this. (Why not a stroke unit as I was to ask later)
I was in hospital for some 5 days, it is well known how I was treated so I will not go into all that again. I left hospital with some use of my legs in fact I could walk quite well, my speech and the use of my left arm and hand was another thing.