When my fit, healthy husband had a stroke at 46 we were just relieved he was alive, but then he got so angry he’d shout and shake with rage. Nobody talks about is how it changes a person. Here’s how our family survived

Juliana Hounsfield was collecting her 11-year-old son from a birthday party when she received ‘the worst call of my life’.

Her surfing, marathon-running, 46-year-old husband, the father of her three young sons, had suffered a suspected stroke while playing a hockey match.

It was a call she had been dreading for a few years.

For while Nick was a slim non-smoker and only a moderate drinker, he was also an entrepreneur and had spent years so stressed with work, creating an outdoor surf centre, from scratch, she says she’d been ‘bracing’ herself for quite some time.

‘Nobody can get away with being under so

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