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The landlord at the local pub noticed his face had dropped on one side and called an ambulance.
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Well, actually it was I went to the pub one Saturday afternoon, because we used to go Saturday afternoon to watch the horses, me and my brother and a couple of mates, we'd sit and watch the racing on the telly and I was ready to come home, you know, and the, the landlord said, “I'll ring for a taxi” not taxi, “I'll ring for an ambulance, you've had a stroke I think”. I said, “I don't think I have”. He said, “Your mouth has dropped down one side” it was this side I think and then somebody said, “You look as if you've had a stroke”. He said, “I'll ring for an ambulance”, so they rung for an ambulance and took me to [the hospital] and I was there and I thought they'd say “He's alright send him home” because I didn't feel as if I'd had a stroke. |
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He had been told by a friend that it could take two years for him to recover physically and that even then his recovery might not be total.
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I felt alright myself, you know, but it was just, you know, the walking got me, you know. I couldn't walk very far. That's what worried me more than anything. As I say from walking about 4 hours a day continuously and not, not being hardly able to hobble along. it takes me an hour to get up to the Co-op and back which is just up the road which I, which I used to be back in about 10 minutes. Which is, you know, and they said it would take about 2 hours to get, get any sorry, 2 years, sorry, to get better. You won't fully recover, they reckon. You're still suffer a bit from, you'll know you've had a stroke, you know, which is a bit frightening really. But I'm hoping that in about 2 years time I'll be sort of hopefully recovered but I met somebody at the shop, oh, a few weeks ago and he said that his dad had a stroke and it took him 2 years but he said he never fully recovered and I said, “Oh thanks for cheering me up”. |
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Moderates his drinking now even when friends encourage him to have more.
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I mean, I don't drink, I have, don't drink hardly any now, I have a, you know, couple of pints but not a lot. They said don't drink too much, [my friend] says don't have too much, I have, I have 2, if I go out, I have a couple of pints. They said you can have 2 and a half, you know and people say, “Come on, have another” “No, I don't want one” I'll just keep to two. |
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Take the tablets and do what the health professionals advise because they wouldn't be telling you if it wasn't worth knowing.
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Well take the tablets you're told to take and do as you're told. That's all I can say is that, you know, they wouldn't be telling you if it wasn't worth telling you, would they? |
