The service offers personalised recovery plans to help patients start to rebuild their lives.
Whitting and Gallacher were both supported by Glenda Parker, a co-ordinator from the charity, through home visits and one-to-one support that would be ended under the proposed cuts.
For Whitting, Parker’s knowledge helped reassure her about what she went through and said that “she made everything sound simpler and less scary.”
Gallacher also benefitted from Parker’s experience and said she knew the answers to questions she did not even know she had, and was like her “cheerleader”.
“She just seemed to get me straight away.” Gallacher added.
“With my speech and the way my brain was working. It knocks your confidence and it was hurtful that people sometimes thought I was lying!
“Glenda supported me with the practical and emotional effects of a stroke”.