Wargamer - Painter -knackered but still going strong.
This is me
Hello and welcome to my first ever web site, My aim with this is to bring order and a bit sense back into my life where ill health has previously denied me. I am a disabled ex serviceman of 13 years, having served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as a Lynx helicopter mechanic.
Post the service i held many roles from Health and Safety Consultant/manager as well as working for BAE Systems, to running all the helicopters from my local airport to the oil rigs as base manager. I have been fortunate but a rapid decline in health put paid to that and now all that remains is a passion for war gaming, sci-fi, my dog and all things geeky.
Its been an eye opener and life changer going from fit and healthy to being knackered, i hope to show here that life doesn't have to stop when the Doctors give you bad news.
i intend to share with anyone interested on here what i try and do, the ups and downs failures and general struggle living with a debilitating illness. If along the way i manage to increase the awareness of my condition and the struggle many have with it then that is a welcome bonus.
So what do i do ?
well the answer to that is as much as i can, when i can and then afterwards pay the price for doing so. i have included a page here detailing my condition and how it effects me, so you can all see that whatever i do achieve its not easy, but at the same time not an excuse to give in. Please be ware its quite detailed to give you an idea but in some areas you will have to use a little imagination.
Post the service i held many roles from Health and Safety Consultant/manager as well as working for BAE Systems, to running all the helicopters from my local airport to the oil rigs as base manager. I have been fortunate but a rapid decline in health put paid to that and now all that remains is a passion for war gaming, sci-fi, my dog and all things geeky.
Its been an eye opener and life changer going from fit and healthy to being knackered, i hope to show here that life doesn't have to stop when the Doctors give you bad news.
i intend to share with anyone interested on here what i try and do, the ups and downs failures and general struggle living with a debilitating illness. If along the way i manage to increase the awareness of my condition and the struggle many have with it then that is a welcome bonus.
So what do i do ?
well the answer to that is as much as i can, when i can and then afterwards pay the price for doing so. i have included a page here detailing my condition and how it effects me, so you can all see that whatever i do achieve its not easy, but at the same time not an excuse to give in. Please be ware its quite detailed to give you an idea but in some areas you will have to use a little imagination.
