My husband (now aged 78) had a bad haemorragic stroke in June 2013. He was excellently cared for in a very busy high dependency stroke unit, then in an equally busy community rehab unit, then discharged home on NHS complex care package needing hoists and conversions etc at home. I never thought that by now, he’d have graduated to standing transfers between power chair, walking short distances with a quad stick, able to read a newspaper and follow cricket on TV, But best of all, he has been able to get back into his workshop, with help, and has been very creative. Our son has shared their work on facebook, and a film company have filmed them in action. I have a lik for their ‘teaser’ for the film on Vimeo. The company is Danny Hardaker Video in Yorkshire. I hope you all enjoy it and it inspires you to know life can be good even with such disability (and he does get very depressed and down, as do I!!)
Such a wonderfully positive post Norfolknanny. Thank you for sharing and welcome to the forum!
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Thank you, I would love to share the short video, but links can’t be shared. It shows some of the creations with my son explaining. My friends say it is very moving.
Thank you for this….stroke is just so so terrifying when it happens, your experience will comfort and encourage many to just keep going, one day at a time and find a new place to be xx
Hi @Norfolknanny & welcome to the community. Nit is great to read of your husbands Great progress. He is doing amazingly well.
You can’t share links initially on the forum but after a short while you should be able to.
Hi @Norfolknanny welcome to our community and thank you for sharing your husband’s journey following his stroke 13 years ago. It’s very inspirational and will be very interesting to anyone just starting their road to recovery and is a reminder to the old timers here (myself included) to Keep Keeping On and never give up.
Thanks again. It’s great to read such a positive post.
Regards and best wishes both of you.
Sue 
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Welcome to the Online Community, and thank you for sharing your husband’s story, good to have you here. 
It’s really kind of you to post something so encouraging for others to read. Thank you for taking the time, and I hope you find the forum useful.
If you have any questions about the Online Community, feel free to tag me or my colleague Anna using the @ symbol followed by our username and we’ll get a notification.
Best wishes,
Alex