I’ve never even looked into driving again I’m epileptic so only get a 3yr license anyway but not sure my left hand could use a gearstick would have to go automatic 
seeing as my stroke was due to a car accident which I’m lucky to have survived was because of a seizure I have no intention of driving again but wasn’t aware it was so difficult?!
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Yes if nothing else it makes me happy to consider the lightweight wheelchair option to ensure I can be more involved in my life than beforehand and go more places as my wife can pop the wheelchair in the car boot ready to use when we get there,”like b&Q Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. I can plan trips to some I our favourite places and know I can keep up and an not excluded by my lack of walking capability
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Oh noo !
I’m pleased that you have got that one out of the way and so disappointed for you.
What a bummer. It seems so cruel that you had to go through all the worry and the waiting only to be knocked out of it at the very last.
It sounds like you have picked yourself up and are able to look at the options still available to you.
The little scooter I bought is what has opened up my world.
I can use it out of the car in all sorts of locations. The freedom of movement allows such a great improvement in life.
You can get around supermarkets, public amenities like parks and even lovely places like canal tow paths. I have yet to explore further but shopping malls, libraries, art galleries and so on are all possibilities for exploration.
I recently came across a hint that it is worth checking out. This site is inspiring with lots of useful ideas. It’s a must read.
And while you are at it post your own experience, suggestions and discoveries. We are in a position to share all this and we are finding things others also want to know.
Please don’t let this get you down. You are in a world full of options and possibilities. Make the most of them.
Remember don’t study the list of what you can’t do.
Explore what you can do.
List your can do’s and share.
We live in a world of possibility, with some discoveries yet to be made.
Take on the challenge, smile, be brave. 
keep on keepin on
By the way it is great fun scooting around in the supermarket, everyone smiles and is so helpful.
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Thanks Bobbi , yes it has been a journey and I wish that the driving instructor had been more honest about my inabilities in respect of keeping the car central to my side of the vroad. My right hand stroke meat spacial awareness is damaged and may never return.
My wife and I are focusing on the next phase of our travels and currently my walking is pooo so an electric wheelchair that is light and enables going places together is far more important. And if at some point point she’s unable to to drive then I can put the wheelchair in an uber or the like. Anyway what’s done is gone now and I have to keep on recovering at least I can walk short distances and am going to get physio input.
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Hi Nicola it’s a long process with many hoops to pass through, and as I’ve found my brain damage is a step too far for me so I’ve been stopped by DVLA.
I’m searching for a new way forward.
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Nicola - I find this a very refreshing post. You show great understanding of your condition and how it affects and impacts both you and other road users and are acting in a very unselfish manner.
Personally, and maybe I am being selfish here, I don’t believe the DVLA are acting in an unreasonable manner.
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I’m sure the driver of the binwagon I drove into the front of hasn’t forgotten it I don’t remember a thing because I wasn’t really there. Had 3dogs and a 6mth old in the car too. It’s not worth it if I’d known it was coming I’d not have got in the car. I normally sense it’scoming quick enough to sit but I’m assuming I didn’t or I’d have stopped and I didn’t have an aura the last one either?! Id not put my family through ot again or possibly kill myself or another. Like everythings else in this country getting pretty useless! Got my passport pretty quickly but NHS, post office etc rack and ruin! Hope you get sorted and back behind the wheel soon 
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Thanks feeling a bit sad now but in reality it’s for the best and I wasn’t goingbtonenjoybdriving with one arm and being so specially adrift in road position as to be a danger to myself and others. On the bright side side I’m getting a light weight electric wheelchair for great inclusion y my current and future adventures
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New adventures await for you. Different to what you wanted but can still be good. Enjoy them all.
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Thanks I will and as I understand it and to be confirmed by my dvla letter I can reapply the assessment up to eight weeks after this time so in five years time it would be a different story, meantime strengthening my brain spacial awareness through scooter driving and computer games
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