Hero soldier goes from SAS to NHS after unlikely career change

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Could you imagine your whole life changing after a conversation with a stranger? For Felix Lopez, 47, a chance encounter in the rain led him to an entirely new career. “I left school in ’89 without any qualifications,” says Felix, who grew up in Manchester but now lives in Kent with his wife Leah and their two children. “I’d always had a desire to join the armed forces, so signed up for the parachute regiment.” Felix served four years, including deployments in Belfast and training with the SAS, before he began to wonder if there was something else for him. “Some of my friends were only just leaving university, so I began thinking that if they could start out then, why couldn’t I?” He knew it was time for a change, but wasn’t sure what he