Comedian Raymond Mearns says stroke gave him sense of gratitude

Mearns was forced to bring his career to an immediate haltOn the first day of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe he was forced to cancel all his shows.But for the past five months, Mearns has been recovering and is back for a brand new show for the Glasgow international comedy festival.

"It was a bit like my head was getting crushed in a vice, it was kind of a weird painful uncomfortable feeling."On the Saturday morning, he still felt the same, but he got up and went to his show.The feeling still lingered on Sunday, so his wife decided to take him to hospital."Annie, my wife, she says 'You're not right, we’re going to take you up to the hospital'."He was offered a CT scan and this is where they discovered what had happened.

Doctors told him they were amazed he hadn't suffered a second mini-stroke, after he lifted weights on the Sunday morning to "wake himself up".He said it took about a month for his coordination and speech to come back."I speak, so the speech was a problem because I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t get the words out my mouth."

Stuart Mitchell, Jay Lafferty, Frankie Boyle, Suzie McCabe, Chris Forbes and Fred Macaulay were among those who performed.Frankie Boyle was among the group of comedians who supported Mearns“I think when you’re confronted with something like that and by the way, I was really lucky, it could have been a lot worse, you really appreciate what you’ve got.

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