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In April last year, Sharon and I finally tied the knot; we had been engaged for far too many years. There is not too much that we haven’t been through in our time together but nothing had prepared us for the impact that GBS inflicted upon our family five years ago. In...

As I turned right into the entrance of the Medway, the stiff wind and tide that had flushed me down the Thames like a crazy bob-sled went berserk. It was an explosive situation… literally. I was bearing down backwards – the howling, backing cross-wind and tide now...

In January 2013 I felt a bit stiff, the result of the man-flu I was very obviously dying from. My ‘stiffness’ was down to Guillain-Barré syndrome although we didn’t know that at the time, and neither (it transpired) did the doctors on my first visit to hospital, as...

This is a lifelong illness for me and many others that live with it so to raise awareness and some funds to aid with research and support others going through GBS I am going to climb Pen Y Fan which is the highest peak in South Wales at 2907 feet high and is an 11...

As I wander around Katmandu and all it’s madness before I start a trek to the Mansulu Region of the Himalayas, it’s hard to recall the day back in 2010 when GBS took my life away for a year.  I was living and teaching in Bromsgrove International School in Bangkok with...

Four years ago, on 1 September 2011, I was admitted into the intensive care unit at a hospital in Florida, unable to walk or feel my legs, arms and face, I had no clue what was wrong with me and was totally terrified. At first the doctors thought I’d had a stroke but...

Malcolm Hanney faced some unexpected challenges when he made a new life for himself in Malaysia. Three years ago, while my son Steven and I were visiting Malaysia – he was doing a few weeks’ work experience with the YTL group in KL- we decided to take a weekend trip...

Today, having returned from a brilliant week in Spain with my husband, daughter and two beautiful granddaughters I scurried about opening mail, ringing friends, washing, shopping visiting my neighbour and finally driving to ‘The Crown Hotel, where I am a member of the...

On the 26th April 2010 my life as I knew it changed forever. My whole life evolved around sport and I was heading to Africa to coach football and so I had to have the yellow fever vaccination. The next day I woke with breathing difficulties and weakness and as the day...