Thank you for your kind words. I would like to apologies for the poor spelling in the post. And yes the stroke was quite a shock, In hind sight it shouldn't have been after 40 years of heavy smoking you cannot expect to walk away unscathed. I am lucky to have got away as lightly affected as I have. Do not get me wrong it is still sstruggle every day but I could have been far worse off. I have resigned myself to a lonely Christmas. I just hope that one day my swallow will return and I can eat again.
Again quit before you end up like me being fed through a hole in my stomach and having to spit in a bag constantly because I cannot manage my own saliva.