{"id":86853,"date":"2026-03-26T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86853"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:57:04","slug":"i-fell-at-oxford-circus-station-and-woke-up-missing-half-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/i-fell-at-oxford-circus-station-and-woke-up-missing-half-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I fell at Oxford Circus station and woke up missing half my head&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZnK1V.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Mr Wallace has undergone several operations since his brain injury in 2019 (Supplied)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Alastair Wallace fell down a flight of stairs at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/oxford-circus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Oxford Circus<\/a> station in 2019, he had no idea that a single missed step would alter the course of his life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/i-fell-at-oxford-circus-station-and-woke-up-missing-half-my-head\/ar-AA1ZnMky?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e4ba6f5a47599c1dc1da2883dd86&amp;ei=41\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When Alastair Wallace fell down a flight of stairs at\u00a0Oxford Circus station in 2019, he had no idea that a single missed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tube.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86854,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853\/revisions\/86854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}