I still think my biggest achievement ever was to overcome a severe alcohol dependence to start to lead a life in recovery. As of this day, I have had about 69 months in recovery. Of course my life was thrown upside-down when I had a cardiac arrest and epileptic seizure in June 2007, but successfully resuscitated by the medics in a North London hospital. I then spent six weeks in a coma. I couldn’t walk and talk at first, but thanks to intense rehabilitation at a different specialist unit in London I was able to learn how to walk and talk again. Whilst I have never had a regular salaried job ever for the last five years, I am very thankful that I am very content in recovery. I have since then been approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to do the Legal Practice Course, which I have now completed, and I indeed have now completed my Bachelor of Law, Master of Law and Master of Business Administration. I am currently writing my fourth book, this one being on wellbeing in dementia. My contribution to international dementia research is still considered to be seminal, and is indeed cited in the current Oxford Textbook of Medicine. This has recently been recognised in a very kind ‘tweet’ from the national clinical dementia lead, Prof Alistair Burns, here.

My current (public) CV is here.