Risky Business

29 April 2009, 15:29

I drove today, one week shy of being officially “allowed” to drive since the aneurysm.

I thought I may have been a little panicky whilst driving but it was absolutely fine – I was hyper vigilant and careful. It did make me wonder though, whether people who’d had a burst aneurysm and/or stroke (a burst aneurysm being a kind of stoke, I guess) should have to take a medical or an abridged driving test before being allowed to drive again.

I mean, I was (very) lucky I had no deficits, cognitive or motor, but what if I had some minor ones that made it a little tricky to drive? What if I were confused about which were my left and which were my right side or if I’d had residual peripheral blindness? I might have exercised a self-imposed ban on driving, but I wouldn’t be required to. And who am I to question, given I let myself out on the road a few days early? Do I call myself arrogant, or just really desperate to have that freedom that driving gives me?

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