I’m at the immigration desk at Heathrow and the officer is suspicious about my passport. And rightly so because the photograph on it predates a catastrophic brain injury that I had in 2020. Let me tell you: stroke face is real.
Like many serious brain injury victims, I also suffer from acute aphasia and apraxia these days, which gives my speech – such as it is – a halted, clotted, strangled quality. In my former life, I had been an award-winning broadcaster for two decades, presenting an array of live TV and radio shows.
I’m a born and bred Londoner and in 2020 moved to New York for work with my husband and two young sons.