How did you feel when they told you you'd had a stroke?
I was on the stretcher at that time, you know, when he told me, “You've got a stroke”.
It is not very happy news, you know. I got a stroke and I still am, am the stroke person, you know. I could not move this hand… Totally disable… could not walk myself… Some person have to look after me, you know. Otherwise that is the, that is the, the most dangerous thing happen with the human being. Stroke is the worst thing. |
The next doctor came, he checked it again and he said, “I'm sorry, you are not going home, you've got a stroke”. He told me at that time… Then they do not have a bed there in the Infirmary, you know. They took me there to some ward… It was not stroke ward, it was something else, you know, some other ward, they put me there. Surgical ward… I was there in the Infirmary for 7 days without any medicine, without anything, without any care, you know. Then I talk to the doctors, say, “It's not right. You're putting me in the surgical ward where people come hurt, you know, in the one night during fighting and tomorrow they go home and nobody looking at me, you know. “Oh we are arranging, we are looking for the bed”. Then they took me to the hospital, you know, the bed was empty. They put me there, that's it and I was totally… unable to move, you know and in my hand or anything… That's what happened with me. |
In fact, one time… I have a suggestion for the social people. If I get one person… who could take me out… and for walking you know, maybe I will, I'll be able to walk.
Do you need support for walking?
Yeah. Because I cannot go alone. If I fell down, I cannot get up… So I talk about that one, about social worker to give me help but they did not, they didn't do it. “It's not our system”. I said, “It's alright”. |
