Thank you all for your generous comments and wishes.

Scary? mmm...well not really. Panicked, confused, but that means I didn't fully understand what was going on at the time. You might say ignorance is bliss. By the time I was in any fit state to think about my situation I was already hooked up to machines and full of meds. What was surprising to me at the time was that I was the youngest patient in the Stroke Unit.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...