Every day, every day this is my routine, this is my routine. I get up early morning at 4 o’clock and I start to do my exercise in my bed, at 4 o’clock in the morning So I do my exercises after when I after seven o’clock again when I get up then I come down and make myself tea and all that. And then again at nine o’clock I do again a second set of, of exercises. So during the day I go out of my house and walk in my drive so that my walking is improved because my brain has forgotten that I have a left leg. My brain does not do any indication that I must use my left leg. I have to persuade myself I’ve got a left leg. And in my bedroom there is everywhere posters that I have got a left leg, how to use my left leg. Everywhere I turn in my bedroom you will see a poster here. My daughter made it. Dad remember you’ve got a left leg, don’t forget to use your left leg. So everywhere there is posters in my house. So I use that. I try to train my left leg even though there are no instructions from the brain to my left leg.

I try to use. I try to put pressure on my left leg be, because my left, left leg doesn’t carry weight automatically as you carry your right leg with… and the left leg. But my left leg nless I tell my left leg, I have to put weight on you So I stand it like that, so put the weight on my left leg to train, to train my left leg to carry my weight. And when I am aware walking I’m folding my left leg a little bit because I don’t lock my knee.

So I fold them and then I walk with the left leg.

Right and left leg.

When I see somebody smoking, then I feel, I feel oh this man is smoking for his, how stupid he is, why is he smoking? There is nothing in smoking. Sometimes I feel like that because smoking can cause your heart, could cause your blood pressure, could cause all that.

So what, what message do you have for, for other people when you see engaging in behaviours like smoking and other behaviours that could lead to stroke…

Yeah, yeah.

..for example…

I just.

..what, what message do you have for them?

Actually I wanted to go somehow if somebody could film me and show it to the public on the television that this is the result of smoking, look at this man. This is a result of the smoking.

He can’t walk. He can’t he can’t walk. He can talk so they should show, show it on television to advising people not to smoke. It is a silly thing to do. There is absolutely no reason to smoke.

Smoking does not help in anyway. You think, Oh it control my nerves No it’s all nonsense. Smoking does not control your nerves and all that.

It is just habit that you are smoking. You are unnecessarily killing yourself. You are spoiling your lungs. You are spoiling your heart for no good reason. The smoking doesn’t help you. Same as the drinking it doesn’t help you at all.

No, no, no. You’d think that, Oh I’ve got so much pain. I, I lost so much of my money. I’ve got so much worries so I must drink. No this is all nonsense. This smoking, drinking cannot reduce your worries.

It can’t. It can give you a temporary escape that is all.

So when I started heavy breathing, breathing heavily my daughter realised that I’m having heart attack. So she immediately called ambulance. And the ambulance came here. The mistake that I did I tried to show myself brave and I said to the ambulance people, No, I will walk down myself from up the stairs to down the stairs Any when I came down the stair then the breathing become very heavy. And in the ambulance my breathing was really, really heavy, so they informed the hospital that [name of hospital]. They immediately consultant and everybody was there. They, they, they saw my condition. They realised that my heart is pumping really heavily. My heart reading is really high. So they, they give some medicine to calm me down. But they realise that I’m going through heart attack.

And in the night I was in the hospital, in the hospital and during the night I don’t know what kind of medicine was given to me, whether to reduce to my blood pressure or to reduce my breathing but as a result, in the night, I had a stroke. My left side is gone, completely gone. Now it is slightly better but at that time it was very, very bad. I was not able even to turn in my bed, turn sideways in my bed.

So the next day condition was really bad. My doctor, my consultant told my relation that if I survive tonight then I will be there in the morning. If I don’t survive that is the end of the story. And afterwards when I was talking to my consultant I asked him how far I was away from my grave. And he said, You were about six inches away from your grave, your condition was so serious, we had no hope that you would survive but you survived luckily. It was your will to survive and therefore you survived My, my will was because of the reason I wanted to live to see my daughter who is a dentist get married. So I want to live. And as a result of that will I survived.