[Laughter] Tell them not to worry [laughter]. Yeah. Try and carry, carry on as, as normal as possible. I think this is what you've got to do. You've got to have a bit of, a bit of strong willpower and not sort of just sit down and mope about it. You've got to carry on with life as normal as you, you're permitted to do, as normal as possible and think positively, which I do. I do [laughter]. |
It was last June. I hadn't been feeling very well and I felt my balance was a bit stupid, I felt almost as if I'd been drunk walking sometimes [laughter]. Anyhow, I went up, I went to see my doctor and he did all the tests, you know, blood pressure, etc, etc. He said, “No, you are fine” you know, “Go ahead, you're absolutely fine” and I think he thought I was just worrying about nothing you see.
As I say, I hadn't been , I hadn't been feeling well , when I eventually went back up to my GP he said, “I'm terribly sorry, I didn't catch, I didn't, I didn't spot it” and he said, “Sometimes you don't, you know, it's not, you can't sort of diagnose it” but I think he was quite, he felt quite guilty because [laughter], you know, that same evening, after he'd seen me in the afternoon , but I wouldn't have anything against him, you know , it's just one of those unfortunate things I think. And if he had spotted it, he couldn't have done anything about it. It was going to happen and it happened [laughter]. |
You said that you sort of suspected it might be a stroke. What made you …?
I did because of my balance and that, you know, and especially when I collapsed and my left leg wouldn't work properly, I immediately thought, “Oh a stroke” and I said to the person who came on the Monday when she told me, I said, “Well…” she said, “Is that what you thought it was?”, I said, “Yes. Yes. That's what I thought it was.”
So when they actually confirmed it, how did you feel?
Well, I suppose I was a bit nervous and apprehensive but I always think what will be, will be, you know, and I must, I must admit the church family, they're such a terrific support to me, they really have been. I don't know what I should have done without them, you know, living on my own, being on my own, but in fact, I've got to start walking a bit now, I'm taking lifts everywhere. This won't do, you know, I must get some exercise, which I am doing. I think, I do think very positively and I try, I try really hard because, you know, a lot of people say, “You've done very well”, you know, I really do try, you know. I don't just sit down and mope about it, I really try. I think, you know, I think it's obvious, to be, to be truthful, in the back of your mind, you know, you've had one stroke, I know you may not get another but on the other hand, you sort of, it's in the back of your mind that you may, which is, I think it's natural, to be quite honest. |
