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Age 66-75
Interview 50  

Interview 50

Age at Interview: 66
Sex: Male
Background: Is divorced with 3 children. He is a retired credit controller. Ethnic background/nationality: Black/ African.
Brief outline:He had a stroke at the aged 58 due to a clot and then a second stroke 1 year later due to a haemorrhage. Medication: perindopril, bendroflumethiazide, prazosin (blood pressure), aspirin (antiplatelet), (stopped due to haemorrhage).

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It's up to you to fight it and to help yourself.

 



It could happen to anybody but it's up to you to fight it when it comes because if you don't, if it comes and you don't decide, because I had a chap who was my friend in the hospital, I didn't know him until we met in hospital and because he was ill, he didn't even want to go to the loo or he want the nurses to help ever time “Nurse nurse” things like that, you're not helping yourself. So when he's shouting nurse, I said, “Why don't you?” he said, “I can't, [name], I can't”. I said, “Try. You're like me but when you try to go, want to use the loo” and he say, “But you fall down”. You see. But if you don't help yourself, I don't think you, whatever medication they give you, they can't help you. Only self believe that because he can't do this, he can't do that, don't have to bring tea to him all the time. You understand what I mean? So you have to fight it yourself. That's what I meant over there. It helped me a lot.
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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