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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond and today I'm in Malawi in East Africa.
And the reason is that I'm meeting my friend Adam, the vet.
Some years ago I followed him as he made the decision to have life changing brain surgery and recorded our conversations during his recovery and we thought seven years on we'd catch up and find out what he's doing in Malawi.
I'm going to look back with Adam on what in a way is a personal archive for him.
This is how it all began back in 2017.
I hit the edge of the road and went flying and I remember going wee as I was flying through the air and the next thing I remember I woke up in an ambulance and they did a CT of my head and on the CT they actually saw a small black hole.
I remember joking with the doctor at the time to say, well, I'm glad you didn't see one big black hole, thinking, didn't have a brain.
And I came out of the scanner and they all looked a bit pale and I kind of panicked at the time.
I thought, God, this is not what I expected.