Simon,

You did say good or bad experiences in your first post.

My mom had 3 strokes with the 3rd one taking her life, was a terrible time for us as you can imagine, the first one she recovered from very well, no speech loss although her left-hand side did suffer slighty she recovered well from that too. It was 2 and 3 that were bad, the 2ns took her sight and speech, she was just SO fragile and spent over 4 weeks just bed bound and to see your mom in this state is/was heart-wrenching, this will sound really cold mate. but me & my two sisters almost got to the stage where we wanted her to suffer no longer if you understand that.

Anyway, i don,t want to go all morbid etc, just stay posotive with your dad mate, people do recover from strokes and recover VERY well too Simon, so support him everyway you can which i know you will and i,m sure he,ll be on the mend..

Pete..