Darren spent nine weeks in hospital recovering from the stroke and its complications, which at times left his life hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n
He returned home to be cared for after declining a place in a long-term rehabilitation centre because “he just wanted to get home to his young family”.<\/p>\n
But him being back at home was not easy, Sophie said, with her husband unable to walk unaided or verbally communicate.<\/p>\n
“We were speaking through the Jabber, which is a text-type computer to enable communications,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He learnt how to talk with the children and how to be at home again.”<\/p>\n
Just over two years on from his stroke, Darren now lives with attention, memory and cognitive difficulties, can only walk short distances and still struggles to speak.<\/p>\n
He is now looking to set up a stroke survivors group for people around his age, after he found that meeting others with similar experiences had been “the first time I felt truly understood” during his recovery.<\/p>\n
“When you see what you need to pull through for, then you pull through, and he’s found his inner strength from the children,” Sophie said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big change for the whole family, and the person from going from the breadwinner to the person that then needs help is a huge emotional rollercoaster.<\/p>\n
“But there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren spent nine weeks in hospital recovering from the stroke and its complications, which at times left his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818631","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\/818631","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=818631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}