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    A Wobbly Ride
    A Wobbly Ride
    A Wobbly Ride
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    A Wobbly Ride

    By Alastair Franks

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    Although this book may be about my life’s journey so far since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, what it is NOT is a lesson on spiritualism, meditation, positivity and diet, although there may be benefits to be gained from all of them and there is mention of these aspects in some shape or form in the book.

    This book is also not a lesson on how to deal with MS per se, because each individual is different and is affected in different ways, whether the effects be mental, emotional, psychological, physical, or all of them. Rather, this is about what I do, how it affects me, what makes me wobble and what makes me spit feathers! Sounds pretty selfish, doesn’t it!

    But hopefully, some aspects may be of some use to you, whether you’ve been diagnosed with this disease, are a friend of someone who has, are family, or if you’re a carer.

    I’ve approached this from a light-hearted angle, although I am fully aware that, to most, MS is not a light-hearted subject.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlastair Franks
    Release dateJun 21, 2019
    ISBN9781916069411
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      A Wobbly Ride - Alastair Franks

      PROLOGUE

      This book is not a life story about me, so don’t expect to see things like, When I was a lad. . . As the blurb implies, however, I hope that some bits of this book will be of use to you; other bits you may want to disregard, and that’s entirely up to you. One thing I will say though is this: keep your chin up and don’t let MS grind you down!

      PART ONE

      IN THE BEGINNING

      There was nearly a cycling accident . . .

      APRIL 2016

      I was cycling home after a standard day at work. I say standard because I can’t remember the actual details of what occurred that day.

      My route is about 12k (eight miles) in length and takes me up an easy climb called Beaumont Hill, then, at the top, left towards the airport and onwards to home. What happened on the way up the hill, though, was not at all expected. Rather, it took me by surprise – and didn’t involve a vehicle of any description, thankfully. On that particular hill you are allowed to cycle on the pavement due to there being (if you’re driving) blind corners and, despite the maximum speed limit being only 40mph (the maximum in Jersey), there are areas where traffic passes you at speed, especially when someone is pressed for time and probably going over the limit, to be honest. This combination leaves you vulnerable if you happen to be cycling on the road, hence cycling up the hill on the pavement is allowed and is signposted as such. Needless to say, that if you were cycling and were to be hit by a vehicle going at any speed, it would result in serious injury or, in the worst-case scenario, it would pretty much be over.

      Anyway, I digress, back to the incident.

      Having taken to the pavement at the bottom of the hill, I was happily pedalling up, took a right-hand bend, then lost my balance. My right foot came off the pedal and landed in the left-hand lane of the road! At the time, I thought my reactions were quite impressive as I use clip-in shoes. The pavement is quite high, my foot was in the road, and my body was at an angle that meant my head would have been exposed to the left-hand side of a lorry or van coming up the hill. Fortunately, this was not the case, nor was there a vehicle coming up the road to take out my head or right leg.

      Already this is starting to sound more like my trials of life on a bicycle instead of experiences to-date dealing with multiple sclerosis! Bear with me.

      I thought nothing of it, as things like this have happened to me before. Hindsight being the wonderful thing that it is, however, that incident should have set the red flags waving. If they had waved, they would have backed up the other things that had already occurred – you know, the things that you normally turn a blind eye to. For example, I have played field hockey for over 30 years and I clearly remember my last game because one of the umpires showed me the yellow card. This was brought about because my attempted tackle on the opposition winger, Sean, turned out to be more of a rugby tackle, due to a loss of balance, therefore was deemed against the rules (don’t ask me which one though!). This was quickly followed by a blast of the whistle from one of the umpires who then presented the yellow card!

      My concern here is that you, as readers, will now start to analyse everything you do, or all that has gone before; something that happened on the way back from the pub (assuming beer was not involved), for instance, or something that happened while you were talking to that gorgeous girl that you’ve fancied for ages (actually, there may have been some Dutch Courage

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