I was a prisoner in my own home after stroke
Peter Cribb suffered a devastating stroke in November, but he s now on the road to recovery thanks to his football team
Peter is the chairman of the Ancient Mariners football club (Image: Luke Green)
The chairman of Grimsby s Walking Football club, the Ancient Mariners, has been using the club as a way to get back to normality after he suffered a devastating stroke in November last year.
Peter Cribb, 70, had to contend with the isolation of lockdown on top of his recovery.
Peter had a record 88 players attend the first training session following the easing of lockdown restrictions on Monday.
When Dr. Alastair Cribb was born 60 years ago, the midwife on duty wanted to rush the birth before his father got home.
That’s because she was afraid his father, Dr. Peter Cribb, a veterinarian with a practice in the family home in Yorkshire, England where Alastair’s birth took place would treat his newborn son like a just-born calf. There was fear he would hold Alastair upside down to drain amniotic fluid from his lungs. And, stimulate his nose so he would take his first breath.
That’s how Dr. Cribb handled the birth of Alastair’s older sister.