Hi, my name is SamMoore!

Hi Teddy bear. I had heard of Scope before of course but never thought of joining in or owt like that. I had a hypoxic brain injury in 1998 when I was assaulted; 2 separate assaults, but I didn't find out what had actually happened to me straight away. My then partners ex beat me up after I'd played live electronic music in a club in W Yorks then one of his drug dealers shoved a handful of some kind of tablets in my mouth while I was semiconscious. I came to with someone trying to get me breathing but my world had changed. I spent the next 2-3 years doing odd things like walking in to the wrong house & not recognising my family or people I'd known for years and started with bad epilepsy & more....textbook HBI. I got tablets for the epilepsy but no kind of support or care; just left to it and I was a single parent 10 days a fortnight too ! Then 21 years later in 2019 I was signposted to Headway, the charity, and that is when I realised I'd had the HBI; after reading their brilliant info and getting very good support from them. My neuro team were very sheepish with me when their penny dropped and eventually I asked to move to a different hospital. I should have gone to a medical solicitors shouldn't I...oh well !

Something about me ? I was the one who made the proposals that became Calderdale Kerbside; UKs first council run door-to-door domestic recycling ! and at the same meetings (Agenda 21) my proposals started Incredible Edible; growing food in council flowerbeds. A councillor took all the credit though & pretends she thought of these but they were me giving a bit of Permaculture to the council; LA21 was all about sustainability. I lived in a canvas and hazel home called a bender for 11 yrs and had a Welsh pony and cart for some of that; happy days, but living like that with a brain injury is too difficult.