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BBC South Today - me on the TV about blood pressure monitors

I was interviewed for BBC South TV new programme about my campaign to raise awareness on high blood pressure, especially for business owners and to encourage them to buy one for themselves and to give one or two away to their fellow peers.

All to often we worry about the business, the staff and then end up forgetting to check on ourselves. This campaign was to raise awareness on how the so-called silent killer can creep up on us and increase our risk of stroke, heart attacks and heart disease. High blood pressure or hypertension can be easily treated with medication and lifestyle changes.

Something that costs around £20 can show us clearly that we need to see the GP.

I am hearing too many stories of friends and their friends having strokes now.

How I met Angela...

I posted multiple parts to Facebook in the run up to our 25th wedding anniversary in 2022 and thought it was time to save it onto my blog.

Young Gordon and Angela Fong aged about 26

Intro:

I won Angela Hang Fong’s heart in the summer of 1987.

On first sight, across a pub called the Ivy House, she told her friend she was going to marry me when she started her nurse training up in Sunderland. We wrote to each other whilst at Birmingham Uni and met back up again after my return.

Her friend came back from travelling the world and ended up in Bournemouth Hospital too, not knowing we were here. She looked down at Angela’s name badge and said, you bloody did marry him!

35 years since we met and 25th wedding anniversary this year. See you on the beach in on Friday August 26th for a picnic and fireworks .

She said it was always meant to be and kept that candle burning until we finally did hook up. Always her number 1.

I know she has loved me from day 1, and even from day -1, but that’s another story.

What does Gordon Fong actually do?

Well, I've done a video to help answer that. It's a bit of fun too but hopefully you get to see the kind of areas that I am involved in. Have put links to LinkedIn and Instagram, so you can choose.

LinkedIn video post

Instagram video post

Family Bereavement Blog

This is for National Grief Awareness Week in the UK, December 2nd to 8th 2022.

The Fong Family together on holiday with dad

If an author set out to write a story of family tragedy they would have approached the end of this story and thought, nope, that’s just way too much. The readers wouldn’t believe it. This is a story of great sadness but also an insight into the positives, the support that people can receive and also give.

It all starts from my mother’s family that is made us of seven sisters and three brothers. This is a large family in today’s numbers, that come from a small island off Hong Kong and close to the China border.

From the early 1960s, all but one sister has made the UK their home, in particular finally settling in the North East of England and Scotland as their permanent homes. Their early history in the UK involved places like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Dundee and the likes of Elgin right at the top of Scotland. That history is for the second generation to find more about.