When keen walker Beth Shepheard-Walwyn fell over on stepping stones while crossing a river, she feared it was yet another worrying sign about her health.
“Crossing rivers shouldn’t have been an issue for me as I’d done it many times before, but I lost my concentration and landed on my bottom,” recalls Beth, 66, a retired primary school teacher and tutor about her fall six years ago. “Although it caused no real harm, it felt unusual.
“Around this time I’d also noticed that I was now struggling to play the piano – my right hand was fine, but my left didn’t know what to do.
