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I sore a post on a Facebook TBI site the other day, actually it may have even been yesterday where a guy was asking whether a TBI is a disability or not. If I am honest, I wasn’t sure, I knew that a TBI could cause a disability but I didn’t know that a TBI could be...

I asked Google of all people is heat exhaustion following TBI a thing….? Suspecting that the answer would be yes, I was still quite alarmed when I read some of the findings on Headway Thames Valley’s website. “I always wear a hat outside to protect my healing scar.” –...

I’m not going to go over old ground, because I’m pretty sure that you all get the fact that I was involved in a life-threatening motorbike accident at a place called Baden-Baden in Germany. If you didn’t, I’d be quite concerned given the number of times I’ve told you....

How traumatic brain injury affects daily life uncovered….   This is a tough one to answer because no two people are alike, if anybody would have been unfortunate enough to have had the very same accident as mine in exactly the place on the very same day, I...

Hears a rather alarming statistic for you: - Every 90 seconds someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury – “that’s a staggering 350,000 people per year”. It’s funny, actually it’s far from being funny but, a brain injury is something that I had...

Hears a rather alarming statistic for you: - Every 90 seconds someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury – “that’s a staggering 350,000 people per year”. It’s funny, actually it’s far from being funny but, a brain injury is something that I had...

Being disabled isn’t something that I would recommend let’s make that very clear, but I think that I’ve kind of accepted it as best as I can by creating my new normal, some might say that I’ve created a better life for myself as a public speaker, and quite a serious...

This photograph is of me dressed as a stormtroopers, stood next to my shiny red Ducati 1098s in a lay-by on the B500 just outside Baden-Baden in Germany. About 1 hour after this photograph was taken I was knocked off my motorbike and left fighting for my life with...

I don’t know many people who are disabled, in fact I can probably count on one hand the amount of people I actually know through social media, mainly LinkedIn and Facebook.    When I say know what I mean to say is, these are people that I have come across when I was...