The Stroke Association Life After Stroke Awards

Receiving the Award

"Adult Courage Award"

Citation

On June 29th I attended the "Life After Stroke Awards" for the Yorkshire & Humber region event at Rotherham. It was an inspiring event with people who in one way or another been affected or touched by a stroke. I sat on a table with a girl who was only 8 or 9 who had suffered a stroke some twelve months ago. She had been nominated by her teacher for her courage and fortitude and I could see why: she has taught herself to write with her left hand and was helping to sew a collage for her school.
Some hard facts were given about strokes by the Head of Operations for The Stroke Association, Yorkshire & The Humber: Age is no barrier and in this particular region alone 10,000 people suffer a stroke annually, 500 of whom live in Rotherham. - A truely staggering statistic.

Lunch was served and it gave us a chance to introduce ourselves and have a chat and to find out a little background to the nominees and their guests.The Mayor and Mayoress of Rotherham attended the event and he chatted to several of us and seemed genuinely interested on how we and our families had been affected.
Afterwards the Certificate presentations took place with information about each nominee read out by The Regional Communications Officer.Quite a humbling affair with so many deserving people.

Afterwards there was again a chance to meet up with the others who had been touched by stroke and The Stroke Association staff. The event was a happy and informal occasion, which I'm sure will be long remembered.