Thanks for the information. It made interesting reading. As I said we were fortunate. My wife had a full work up including CT & MRI within 90 minutes of the onset. tPA was administered shortly afterwards. She was cared for at a hospital specialising in stroke rehab and the hospital was listed very highly in the US top 100 hospitals. Her neurologist was also named independently as a leading strole researcher. For me I saw a person struck down by a stroke measuring 3.9CM recover completely within 4 months. Since returning to the UK all of the 4 neurologists we have seen have repeated stated that for this size of stroke it is very unusual for someone to survive, let alone make such a good recovery. Whilst I'm here, a big thank you to the Stroke Association. They were so much more home full than anyone we met in the NHS or BUPA...