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Once upon a time I had a brain haemorrhage. It may be a dim and distant memory for some and others of you probably didn’t even know. For me however, there is not a single day that goes past when I don’t think about it in one way or another. I remember the pain, I remember not being able to tell the ambulance man where I lived, I remember not being able to walk and staring at a pair of pink slippers dangling from my feet trying to work out how to make them move. I remember my Dad having to feed me, I remember my brain not working properly, I remember not being able to write my own name and I remember the long struggle back to 'normality'. Sometimes it makes me feel scared, sometimes it makes me feel small, sometimes I think about how different things could be now. But I always end up returning to the same place. I feel grateful. Grateful for my life, grateful for my friends and family and grateful for the amazing hospital and the people there who actually saved my life. 

Apart from the day to day care, the washing, the feeding, the drugs, the reassurance, the physio and all the other chores of nursing me, the hospital fixed my brain by putting about 20 bits of metal into my head to stop it bleeding. Each piece cost around £1000. That's a lot of expensive metal! I owe more than money, much much more, BUT I want to raise money for them and I want to thank them by using every little scrap of the life they gave back to me. Please please please help me if you can...

The National Brain Appeal raises funds for The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square – one of the world’s leading centres for the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with neurological and neuromuscular conditions. These include stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS), brain cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Prion disease, and head injury.