Emily was just 17 when a brain haemorrhage left her paralysed and unable to speak. “We were told that Emily would never be able to stand, walk, initiate movement or conversation,” says her mother, Marie. “Three months into her recovery, we were recommended a place she could go to pass away peacefully.”
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When Jonty went into hospital for routine rotator cuff surgery, he expected to be home very soon afterwards. In fact, he didn’t leave hospital for 84 days as he suffered a spinal stroke during his operation leaving him with three paralysed limbs.
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A split second changed Tony’s life when he collapsed at the top of his stairs and fell down headfirst, breaking his neck. Blue lighted to Royal Stoke Hospital, he underwent a seven-hour operation and was put into an induced coma for three weeks. When he came round, it was to a new reality as a full-time wheelchair user.
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