Dominick, 25, was working as a mechanical fitter at Jaguar Landrover and renovating his first home when in summer 2021 he started to notice his mood was changing.
He found himself snapping, feeling down and getting angry and upset, but put it down to the stress of recently buying a property and putting long hours into redecorating it.
But in August 2021, Dominick, from Wallasey, Wirral, woke up and suddenly began to repeat words, his right side went numb and his speech became slurred. His girlfriend Laura realised he was having a stroke and called an ambulance.
Dominick was rushed to hospital, where doctors discovered the cause of the stroke was a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) - a tangle of abnormal and poorly developed blood vessels which is extremely rare, affecting just 1% of the population.
The left side of his brain was damaged by the stroke, which meant he was unable to use the right side of his body and couldn’t talk.
Around 7 months into his recovery, Dominick was offered free speech and language therapy (SALT) through The Brain Charity, which helped him regain the ability to speak.
Read Dominick's full story here: www.thebraincharity.org.uk/st...
1 дек 2022
