This is the story of Roman's stroke, told by his two daughters Wioletta and Edyta. They discuss how physiotherapy has impacted their father and his ability to function to his previous normal.
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So that time, he had a physio. After three days from the Charing Cross Hospital, my father been transferred to West Middlesex Hospital and we've been blessed with one thing, because we are from Poland. So there was a language therapy lady, she was Polish. So she spent a lot of really time with my father to try at least talk, to try pronounce some of the words. So just because of her, my father start pronouncing again like numbers, days of the week and month. And I would say with her, he done a lot of progress from the beginning. But with the physio, I would say they try to make stronger his left side of the body, the not affected one, to make sure he kind of balance. They told us like we will try and make his another side of the body stronger, that he can hold the body like a balance at least like he would be able to stand by his own. There was a progress from the beginning but then yeah there was a progress. He stayed in the West Middlesex for a couple of weeks and then he was transferred to another hospital just for physio to Hillington Hospital, it was. And there as well, there was continue what was going with my father in the West Middlesex, but then we don't have a really good experience with them as well, but they decide to stop everything. They said like, my father is aggressive, improving, he doesn't want anything and they say as well he doesn't want to work with us, he wants to sleep all the time, we can make a conversation with him when we try to explain but he loves the speech, you know he doesn't understand even Polish, English, English language they don't try to understand us and to him. Sometimes we say he needs time to think or show to him. Yeah, it was quite difficult as well to because not everyone understands what is mean stroke to have a stroke. I think so tell the person will see or will experience themselves then they do understand. And especially if you have a person like my father, which he didn't even understand a language. They were surprised like, oh, he speaks Polish. Even if you talk to him, he doesn't understand. And we tried a lot of times to explain, no, even we speak, he doesn't understand. It's because of the damage he has on the brain. And yeah, they told us like he won't improve anymore and they will need to discharge him. We agree. We said like, okay, we see he won't improve anymore in this place, let him come to home. And to compare what was, how he was that time and compare today, I would say, I would love to face them and see like, you see, you said he would not, he won't be able to do this kind of stuff and look at him now he does and I would say like his half of his body the time when he got a stroke he was it was out of the control like there was not even one percent that you could say he will be okay on his right side of his body But at this moment, I would say, never lose hope.
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