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.
Kelly Fogarty, now 54, from Birmingham, was told by one therapist she would never talk again after having a stroke in November 2017, and it has taken years of speech and language therapy for her to be able to learn how to be able to name objects and form complete sentences.
The stroke had put Kelly in a two-day “fog”, which she awoke from speaking “gobbledygook”, and for days she was unaware of her condition, wondering why people looked confused when she spoke. Already unable to say her children’s names, six weeks after the first stroke Kelly had another.
