Weather the Storm
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Unfortunately, little did I know that things were about to dramatically change thus meaning the cancellation of the trip because at around 2050hrs on Thursday 29 December 2005 as the buzz of Christmas was subsiding I decided to go to bed for the evening, meaning facing the challenge of the stairs on crutches due to the surgery two weeks previously. I managed to overcome the challenge, I always do- it’s the way I am – but little did I know that perhaps the biggest challenge of my life was waiting just around just around the corner. I made it up the stairs and as I lay on the bed I experienced a most painful and searing headache, which was most unusual for me as I never get headaches. In fact I never get anything other than the odd snuffle! However, the head pain I was suffering was intense and something more than a run of the mill tension headache. It was, in fact, the mother of all headaches, and I immediately realised something was certainly very wrong.
I was having a stroke!
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At the grand old age of 41 Shaw, still playing veterans soccer, suffered a routine hip injury which required invasive surgey for a new hip. Shortly after the operation caused by a post operative blood clot he suffered a massive stroke leaving him with paralysis of the left side, loss of speech and partial blindness. Weather the Storm is Shaw’s account of how he dealt with the devastation of the sudden and unexpected tempest, how he climbed back onto his feet whilst the storm was raging and how he eventually managed to negotiate his way back to normal life via a series of small victories so that he could tell the world that a devastating life event need not be an end to one’s life but merely a punctuation mark.
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Andrew (Andy) Shaw is a 44 years old married father of 2 living in