Love Story through Aphasia

This is a Finding Words story!

On June 28th 2015 my husband had a severe GI bleed and was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he suffered a stroke. I had never heard of aphasia it happened to my husband. We are retired and were very active now a year later he is still in therapy and has an All Talk machine to help him communicate. Our love has grown even stronger and our roles have changed but life is slowing getting back to some normalcy.

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