A very good morning to everybody on this lovely Friday morning. I hope you're all well.

Welcome to Who's Tom and Dick? And as we forge through February, we're heading to the lighter

nights, which is nice nice and hopefully some better and

certainly dry a weather so today on the podcast I thought I'd invite my brother Tony

Tony suffered a heart attack all going back over 10 years now and most recently in

September of 2025 he suffered a stroke whilst on a holiday in Bournemouth.

Now, this comes totally out of the blue on a normal day, no signs whatsoever.

And Tony's decided to come on to the podcast and share his experience with us,

hoping that it might help others.

So, without further ado, I'd like to welcome my old brother, Tony. Good

morning, Tone. How are you? Hello, how are you doing? I'm not doing too bad. So, Tony, we've got

you on here today to speak about your recent stroke. You've just reached your 70th birthday and a few

days later. You have a stroke whilst on holiday.

Do you remember much about that?

The stroke itself. Yeah. Well, there was no warning signs whatsoever. That's what surprised me, no headaches or anything. I always expected if you got a stroke that you'd get some sort of warning, but apparently you don't. It just hits people totally out of the blue. I mean, in the afternoon, we were on the beach in Bournemouth with my son, his wife and my granddaughter, Rivera, Ravarity, because we were on holiday with them.

And my daughter and law's parents were with us as well.

We were just on the beach.

It was a perfectly normal afternoon, nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever.

We just had a nice ice cream at the ice cream cost, me and Alex, and I could see him playing in the sea. Yeah. And we were sitting on the sand watching them. And the plan was to go back to the camp, have our tea, and then go to the club in the evening with Verity, because that was a toddler's week. Right. So we went back to the car, and I drove back normal, no problems whatsoever. We went for our tea and then we bought some tickets we were going to play bingo and I went back in the hall and the music was playing and it all seemed very loud and the light seemed very bright and all of a sudden my head went funny and Julie said oh all right she said where's your spray because you saw that's my heart attack ten years ago and I said that's not my heart it's my head I've just gone funny sort of dizzy and funny right so she

said sit down and that's the last thing I remember in there so you passed out no well I don't

think I actually passed out she's duly will tell you if I did or not but I'm not sure so you never

really had any signs until then no none, not anything during the day at all, nor the weeks leading up to it, because I've driven all the way from Great Cornel down to Bournemouth on the Monday, and this was a Wednesday. Yeah. With no issues whatsoever. As I said earlier, I had any head ahead of it was absolutely no warning signs whatsoever, which surprised me. But when I've spoken to doctors since, as I've said, that's the way it is. You don't get any warning signs. Right. Apparently it's quite normal just to be struck just like that out of the blue. Yeah, because they always warn you on TV that look out for these signs, but as obviously the person that's with you that's looking for these signs. I think that's what happened. Julie had seen those adverts, and that's why she realized what had happened. Yeah. So immediately they dialed 999 from an ambulance. So as soon as you lost consciousness. Well, I slumped down on the chair apparently next to Julie and fell to one side. Yeah. because obviously I was standing up and I felt dizzy. So I sat down and I just slumped to one side. So she immediately realized what the possible cause was. So they just dialed 9-9 straight away. Mm-hmm. When did you come round? How far after that did you realize what had happened? Not until the next day. Oh, so you were aware the next day? Yeah, because I came around in hospital and they told me what happened. Was there a delay on you receiving treatment, do you know, from the holiday camp or the park? The holiday camp apparently got no first aiders at all. It was all of it. Julie will tell you all that. I mean, I could ask her the question

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