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Wales Online
Kaitlin Easton & Nisha Mal

'After the first stroke I didn’t even know I had a daughter'

A dad who suffered from a stroke says he had no memory of his six-year-old daughter when he woke up. Paul Flaherty suddenly began to feel unwell after he'd come back from getting his hair cut.

His arm went numb, and Paul knew straight away he was having a stroke because his father had suffered from one just months before. He managed to pick up the phone and call his ex.

He could only muster one word. Stroke.

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