"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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I think it's up tp the person themseleves to inform the DVLA.
My brother had an epileptic fit in the mid 80s . This year he tripped hit
his head and 10mins later found himself sittign in the living room on the
sofa.
he remebers tripping, putting out his hands and falling on the paving
slabs and that's it.

Went for a hospital check up and they told him in their view it's very
unlucky they are linked but teh previous doctor he saw thought there could
be links so he was told to contact the DVLA and tell them the situation
otherwise his insurance might not be valid if he made a claim.
So he has a MIR scan at the end of this month on a sunday ! just to check.
He had a CAT scan which showed notbhing unusual last month.

Let's hope it turns out to be a couple of one-offs (separated by several
decades) and not the start of anything. Clear CAT and (hopefully) MIR will
go a long way to convincing insurance and DVLA that it's nothing unusual.



Sometimes doctors do inform DVLA. Five years ago I had a heart attack and
cardiac arrest - no pulse for a couple of hours and it's only thanks to my
wife and the ambulance crew doing CPR to keep some sort of circulation going
that I'm still here :-(

When I came round after a week in intensive care being kept in an induced
coma I learned how lucky I'd been. When I was discharged, I was warned that
DVLA would need to know because of the potential for brain damage after
cardiac arrest - and a letter from them was waiting for me, which can only
have been triggered by the consultant rather than relatives.

Luckily I was eventually cleared to drive - it took a long time for the
consultant to see me as an out-patient, and he cleared me immediately and
DVLA were very quick in sending the "no longer a problem" letter. It was a
fantastic feeling to go for a quick drive round the block when I got the
"all clear" letter.

The only effect was a bit of short-term memory loss in early days about
events that had happened in the months before the incident - eg I knew we'd
been on holiday but it frustrated me that I couldn't remember where; when my
wife dropped a few subtle hints, all my memory of the holiday returned at
once, rather than in drib and drabs: memory is weird.

My wife says I drive a bit more cautiously - in her opinion, *over*
cautiously as regards the space I leave from the car in front in heavy
traffic that is doing 70 at one minute and 40 the next, but I prefer to have
enough gap that I can slow down fairly gradually rather than trying to mimic
every slow-down and acceleration of the car in front. And I drive
differently when I'm on my own, when I haven't got her complaining about
going over speed bumps too quickly or accelerating hard to pull out from a
junction in situations where when she's in the car I will wait for a bigger
gap so as not to accelerate too hard.