My dad (72) had a stroke in January while my mum was on holiday. We hadn't heard from him for a while so the 80-year-old neighbour went up a ladder and saw my dad lying on the bedroom floor in only his underwear under the open window (in January). We later worked out that he'd been there 3 days - conscious. He was taken to a very average stroke unit at Dartford, but has since been transferred to Sevenoaks where he's getting excellent care (naturally they want to close Sevenoaks down !). He's improving very slowly but is still paralysed down the LHS, double-incontinent and on-off lucid. My mum now has to sell the house they've lived in together for 40 years to move to somewhere more suitable and she'll be nursing him for the rest of their lives together. I'm glad to read the posts here that say there's hope for stroke victims. I hope he's one of the lucky ones that make a reasonable recovery. For all the family's sake.