Day 1

So how did I get to this point. My story started on 3 July woke up 6 o clock for work, had my breakfast and went to brush my teeth. Bammmm found I was excessively drooling and thought jeez I am having a stroke.

Panic sets in as you can guess, stuck in the smallest room with family unable to get access to you. I opened the bathroom door and found my speech had gone but though clarity was still there I ended up banging on the floor trying to attract attention from my daughter and wife. They have this uncanny ability to think each others thoughts, mine was my daughters dog hearing me.

My wife thought I was having a choking fit and carried out the heimlich manoeuvre on me.

An ambulance was called and paramedics thought I had experienced a stroke.

I would prefer it better to drive an ambulance than to be inside the back of one.

New Cross Hospital carried out a CT scan and then came the news a shadow had been located on the side of my brain and that was what had caused me to have a seizure and not a stroke.

Family members stood around the end of your bed and hearing this news gives one a sense of helplessness.

A further CT scan revealed my invasive enemy was located nowhere else in my body. The shadow was a primary cancer.

It was decided to observe overnight and arrange for me to be transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as soon as possible.

2am the next morning I was transferred across to QEHB for an MRI and further tests.