Draw a line.
Well a little over a year has passed since my accident. This time, one year ago, I was lying in intensive care in Innsbruck (Austria) unconscious, being kept alive by a machine. One year on I have pretty much a normal life again for which I have to thank Innsbruck Hospital and the excellent surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses who cared for me there and in particular Dr Manfred Waldegger who, in his longest ever operation, managed to fix a leg which it was not always clear could be saved at all. Thanks are due also to the excellent care provided by the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital on my return from Innsbruck and ever since. I’ve put an album of scans and related items on Flickr for people to see. Click here for that.
I generally only talk about the accident if asked because I don’t want to be defined by it, but I’ve quietly enjoyed the horrified looks of people when they see the scans. But I’ve had my fun with that now and I’ve got plenty of challenges ahead of me to be getting stuck into. I’m now entering the 6th month since becoming the head of department at work and much has been achieved already but there is so much more to do. Then there’s the boat, no longer named Grenick (or indeed anything at the moment) but still sitting up on the chocks awaiting a whole load of work ahead of the spring and it’s also about time we got on with the job of updating our house, work started but never finished by the previous owners. Too much to look forward to so no time to spend looking back!