Monday was a highly emotional day for me.  I was finally charged from the Neurorehabilitation clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

I must say that my medical team looking after me are fantastic. A dedicated team of clinicians, including neurologists at various stages of their training, the occupational therapists, the physiotherapists, and the speech-and-language therapy (SALT) people looked after me. My father and mother used to visit me religiously every day. My mother still has memories of coming to see me during visiting hours, with cooked food. My father passed away in November 2010.

The Hospital makes me extremely proud, as I practised neurology there long before I came alcoholic. I had the pleasure and honour of being on the movement disorders, cognitive disorders and dementia, neurogenetics and general neurology teams. I think the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, is the best hospital in the world. Therefore, while it gives me great happiness in that I no longer have seizures (my last one was on admission in 2007) and I am now physically almost back to normal, it is of massive unhappiness I will probably never go there again.

I still actively research in dementia, working for a leading UK charity in Alzheimer’s Disease. I love it there, as I make contributions to their groundbreaking work on quality-of-life and wellbeing in dementia environments. I will be writing an open letter to the General Medical Council, having done my two degrees in law and MBA by that stage, with 57 months in recovery in 2013. The GMC can have a careful read of the transcripts now which provide that their Consultant gave in the hearing, that if erased my drinking would explode. This is exactly what happened, and it’s well known within medicine that you’re at extremely high risk of meningitis if you drink heavily.

I currently have the privilege of being able to complete my legal training, and I still have unanswered questions of my own about the treatment of sick doctors.

I look forward to the challenge. My father insisted that I should fight this fiercely, on a matter of principle. Thankfully, I have an excellent consultant. The BBC will be interested to follow my submissions particularly. I think both the medical and legal professions are wonderful, though, notwithstanding what I’ve said. I must thank the regulators for law for looking at my case fairly which allows me to pursue my current dreams.