On the 5th of November 2007, Alan Burgess suffered from a stroke, changing his relationship with the world permanently in the space of a morning. However, this didn’t happen in a way that most people would expect. He wasn’t left paralysed or with impaired vision; it was something much more bizarre. Alan’s stroke had left him with a syndrome called hemispatial neglect, where the left side of the world had completely stopped registering. People who were stood to his left, food on the left side...
When Half the World Goes Missing
Gauri Nair

