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PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:00 pm

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Let me introduce myself.....I am a male, 44 years old & I have had Aphasia for 8 years.
Basically I was a traveller first for 3 years then I went into the computer industry for 5 years....I then took a break for 4 years, then I joined a travel company for 7 years & I left the travel company & travelled 6 month before deciding to buy a flat....It was very special, the flat I mean, & it is down at the front in south coast!
My girlfriend was up in St Albans & we used to take it in turns who would go & see them!!
One day in St Albans I felt very funny, not ha ha, but really something was wrong with me. It was the 20 th June 1998.

To cut a long story short, I woke up in hospital & I could not walk, talk....basically a sorry human being! It was the hospital at Hemel Hemstead.
I was there for 17 days....the worst nightmare!!

Then I was put into rehab place, Garston Manor, Watford, if anybody knows this, & I had a similar nightmare there too!!

After 10 weeks I got out, & Debbie & me got a tiny flat near St Albans.

I went to the rehab centre for roughly 1 year 6 months. How I keep going, I do not know!!

Then Debbie & I spilt up....we had being getting on each other's nerves & after 3 years 9 months we went our separate ways! Debbie was a great help to me, I think we did the right thing!

And now I am chairperson of the local Speakability group, I am Holiday advisor for Dialability & do the books for Oxsrad, a local sport club. I am doing a web-site!

I travel; nobody stop me doing that!!!!

Oh well, that my story, simpified but the whole truth......
PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:07 am

Hi Joe
What more can one say. It is useful to see the whole story laid out in such a concise mannner.
Keep going, & best of luck
PhilN
PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:48 pm

it is very inspiring how some people conquer life's great challenges and you most certainly have, Joe!!

send me a postcard from your next travels or write a travel documentary on this website Cool

bon voyage Arrow Wille
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