My father had a stroke in November of last year, he's 75. He is due to come out of hospital some time next month. In the beginning he was starting a sentence in English and then speaking the rest in Spanish and no one could understand him. that took about 5 weeks to sort it self out. Also his temperature control had gone AWOL so he was feeling mad hot when he was cold added to that he caught a bad chest infection through being on-the floor for 12 hours. His stroke paralysed him down his left side, couldn't walk at all or do anything with his left arm. After intensive physio and help for the OT's and speech therapy he can now talk fine, he still slurs his words a bit but is understandable, he is walking with the aid of a delta which is similar to a frame with wheels, he has also been given an electric wheelchair. As for his left arm its still not doing anything but the arm is always the last part of the body to kick in. It's still early days for my farther as the brain carries on healing after a stroke for up to 5 years. If it is only 3 weeks since your mother had her stoke, forgive me if i have the time wrong, then there is still time for some kind of improvement, stroke units don't write people off they try as hard as they can to get them back to as near normal life as possible. allot of the questins about owning your own home are so they can help your mother with helping aids in the home such as stair lifts and special beds if needed but also so they can sort out the correct benefits for her.

You need to contact Welfare Rights are your local council. I have recently had my DLA lowered form middle rate care for 4 years to low rate due to an ass of a doctor who came out and asked me 4 questions and only one was what are you disabilities, the rest were insignificant, and am appealing through WR. I know just what you mean about them losing papers as they lost mine for 7 weeks and then they turned up 4 weeks earlier after I'd had to request another pack to be sent out. If you don't receive an acknowledgement letter within 10 days you need to kick them and find out where it is as they are absolutely useless.

Thanks very much for the reply. The reason i ask is because, like most people on here, I'm desperate for the money, my roof is leaking

I've had to make a new user name as the site wouldn't let me back in. Anyway i've filed my court allocation questionaire on Monday Can anyone tell me now how long I will have to wait before LLoydsTSB offer to refund the charges please?