Stroke: 'I Had to Cure Myself'

The skills I had learnt as a child - standing up, writing, even holding a cup - had gone, and my speech was heavily slurred.
The first harsh realisation was that something very bad had happened. The second was that nobody in the hospital was going to tell me how to get better (the only advice I received comprised vague noises about the need for "rehabilitation" and "exercises"). The third realisation was a consequence of the first two: I had to get out of hospital and cure myself.

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