ANDREW'S STORY
In August 1999, three weeks after his twenty-first birthday, Andrew was pronounced dead at the roadside. His family were told that if he came round at all, he wouldn't walk again. He told the ward he'd walk out on his own two feet. Weeks later, he did.
What came next is the part he doesn't get asked about. He went back to work, climbed to running the biggest Lloyds branch in Wales, moved into commercial insurance, and told nobody what he was carrying. That went on for nearly twenty-four years.
In 2022 he met the doctor who had treated him, who called him a miracle patient. It was the moment Andrew decided that staying quiet had cost him more than it protected him. He walked away from a thirty-year career to talk about it instead.
Since then: the final of The Traitors, 1,200km on foot across four nations for a brain injury charity, and hundreds of rooms full of people who needed to hear that it doesn't have to stay like this.