
Editor’s Choice Inspirational Women Issue 2022
I didn’t know who she was. The features looked familiar, but I couldn’t place her. It took me a few moments before I realised that the image staring back was me. I only came to that conclusion because the nurse standing next to me was a different complexion. That sounds like the beginning of a mystery novel, but it describes the most significant moment of my life. The aftereffects of my second stroke left me with retrograde amnesia and facial blindness.