Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline Before Diagnosis Firstly a few ‘markers’ before my diagnosis that may or may not be relevant to my peripheral neuropathy journey. Born in 1951, first diagnosed in February 2017. Childhood years: From memory, I often had cold feet in the winter, sometimes numbingly cold. My feet have always been ‘skinny –…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline Diagnosis 2017 66 years old I saw the Consultant Neurologist for the first time 17th February 2017 and at this first meeting he confirmed that I had ‘A Peripheral Neuropathy’. I don’t really remember much of the meeting other than he asked questions of my history both in life and medical….
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2018 – 2021 2018 – 67 years old For all of 2018 I was concentrating mainly of adjusting to my various imbalance issues caused by the detached retina and PN. I was becoming far more active and getting plenty of walking exercise with no problems to report. No increase in PN…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2022 71 years old Now that I had the trike, over the winter months I had planned for and set in motion an extended solo international trike expedition. My thinking at the time was simply to get as much as I could done before my PN got any worse and stopped…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2023 72 years old My Peripheral Neuropathy odyssey continues into 2023. I did learn a lot about my PN from my recumbent trike trip back in 2022. But I now had a new Brompton folding bike and so I decided very early on that I would take the Brompton and myself…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2024 73 years old I did slip over early in the early part of the year and sprained my left ankle, on reflection quite badly. I thought I could walk it off as it was not feeling very painful but in doing so probably made it worse. This was the first…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2025 74 years old Having come to terms with the fact that the South Korea Brompton cycling trip was probably my last extended cycling trip I felt that I still needed to just do something a little on the more unusual side of things, whilst I still could. I’ll be damned…
Andrew’s PN Journey Timeline 2026 75 years old Ever since the time of my very first peripheral neuropathy diagnosis I’ve been hankering about whether or not to go back to live in S E Asia. I was so close to going just before Covid hit, but that put the kybosh on that plan. Even after…