{"id":766448,"date":"2026-09-10T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766448\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:12:09","slug":"a-stroke-completely-wiped-out-my-ability-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766448\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A stroke completely wiped out my ability to speak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenhough now runs the Say Aphasia group in Gloucestershire, attendees of which have varying speech and language abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity was set up by Lyall, who is still unable to read and write after developing aphasia following a stroke 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a fog,&#8221; Lyall said of aphasia. &#8220;After two years, my fog was lifted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is my life. I can&#8217;t do my job anymore because I can&#8217;t read, can&#8217;t write, and it&#8217;s just too complicated. So, after two years, I decided to do the charity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyall said he focuses on staying positive about the things he can do and his charity, which now has more than 30 support groups across the UK, is one of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenhough now runs the Say Aphasia group in Gloucestershire, attendees of which have varying speech and language abilities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}