Last Monday a bike shop saved my life…

Last Monday I was riding to work in St Andrews, Scotland when I got a puncture. I stopped in a layby but as soon as I took off my helmet I came over all dizzy and could not see straight. A passing couple saw me sitting there next to my bike and stopped to ask if I was ok. I wasn’t so they phoned Cupar Motorcycles for me and Cupar sent a van. When we got to the shop I could not walk straight and one side of my face had drooped, so Susan from the service desk whisked me off to A&E in her car, from whence a fast ambulance took me to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and the stroke unit. Not long after I was in a CT scanner and was then given a shot of ‘clot buster’ which dissolved the blood clot in my brain! Modern medicine is an amazing thing when you come to need it. Thank the lord for that puncture and it’s nice to have had my faith in people’s basic goodness confirmed. I’m back home and should be riding my VFR in four weeks. Nick Hanley, email