My wife suffered her first stroke about four years ago. She has since had three TIAs, the last a couple of months ago. While not a full-blown stroke, she had more residuals and needed some PT/OT.
The hardest thing for me is the personality changes. Or maybe a better word is an increase in intensity. She is an abuse survivor and thus tends to be pretty self-involved. She is now almost exclusively concerned about herself and I've come to understand that saying anything about it is useless and