Doug had two strokes in September 2016, the first on the morning of the 19th…never forgotten. Throughout this event his mind remained as it always was, his body lost…..limbs, voice, movement….all lost….a rag doll he was…..yet his soul lived.

He was lucky that he was found immediately. An ambulance arriving quickly with a paramedic who took him to the right hospital, where he had a thrombectomy within the five-hour window, otherwise he would have remained that rag doll….or he might have died.

The second stroke occurred five days later in the hospital and was unrecognised by the night shift agency “health assistant”. That stroke did the most damage, leaving him with a long-term disability which crept upon him slowly and stole his left sided control, leaving him with a rare disorder namely a Holmes/Rubrell tremor which means he is now unable to fully utilise his left side due to this “action” tremor.