I HAD a stroke five years ago and was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital.
The initial diagnosis was that I hadn’t suffered a stroke so they were sending me home. My son insisted they were wrong, which they were.
After a few days I was sent to Bishop Auckland hospital where I stayed for five weeks.
They were short staffed. Some days you didn’t have physiotherapy or speech therapy.
There weren’t enough walking aids and the food was abysmal. I lost a stone-and-a-half.
From recent reports it would seem little has changed in five years.
G Rutherford, Darlington.
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