Since my life changed nearly 14 years ago,..............
Maybe I'd better start just before that, to make it more linear. I was a healthy, athletic, quietly confident man.
I was kickboxing, mountain biking, (real off road stuff!) rode a custom motorbike, that I did most of the work on, and managed a successful warehouse. Nothing huge, but a good team of sales and workers, that were a pleasure to work with. I ended up putting work ahead of a relationship I was in and that ended, reasonably. I felt as it was mostly my fault it failed, that I could at least leave her with the flat we bought and paid off.
My mother who was a car crash of a