“At four o’clock that morning, I woke up and I was on the floor – I thought that was not normal and had never fallen out of bed... I got this feeling that something was not right'
A mum of three woke up unable to say her name or string a sentence together after having a sudden stroke on a hospital floor, in a “life-changing” event that left her “feeling worthless” and forced her to sell her successful business and house.
The second stroke degraded her communication still further and soon she had her privacy stripped from her, as she could not do basic tasks that involved writing or talking, culminating in a mental breakdown and severe depression – as she grieved the life she once lived.
Kelly has Crohn’s disease and around three or four times a year she gets an intestinal blockage and has to go to A&E – this happened in November 2017, when she was 48, and Kelly did not think anything of it. She said: “I went to the hospital and they gave me some morphine. I said goodbye to my kids and that I’ll see them tomorrow – this was normal and something they were used to.”
“I just felt terrible, but that didn’t last long because I blacked out. I don’t really remember much else.” Kelly came to the gut-wrenching realisation that the things she wanted to say were coming out as entirely different words. “I remember having speech and language therapy in the hospital,” she said.
“I’ve never had depression, and all my family were amazing,” she said. But, imagine everything in your house, all your things, emails, bank accounts, being checked by your family – everything was completely open. “I had a breakdown, and eventually, I went to the doctor and had some therapy. They came to my house and talked to me about grief.”
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