{"id":5270,"date":"2012-08-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2012\/08\/03\/baby-helps-paralyzed-father-walk-and-talk-again\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T04:00:00","slug":"baby-helps-paralyzed-father-walk-and-talk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/03\/baby-helps-paralyzed-father-walk-and-talk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby helps paralyzed father walk and talk again"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5269\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/82558bd755d4bf64f8b1324b360ed554.jpg\" alt=\"Image Credit: topnews.co.uk\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Mark Ellis and his daughter Lola\" width=\"532\" height=\"399\" \/>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">A young father who became trapped in his own body after suffering a stroke has learnt how to walk and talk again &#8211; by copying his baby daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Mark Ellis was just 22 when he suffered a stroke and locked in syndrome &#8211; a nightmarish condition which leaves the sufferer&#8217;s brain still alert but their body paralysed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">The sudden stroke in August 2010, just two months after his marriage, left Mark completely helpless and he could only communicate by rolling his eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"splitRight\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; float: left; width: 308px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"splitLeft\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; float: left; width: 308px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"blkBorder\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/07\/18\/article-2175326-141B8C3A000005DC-135_306x356.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Ellis\" width=\"274\" height=\"318\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 4px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a7a9ab; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; clear: both; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Having fun: Mark copied many of his daughter&#8217;s actions to help him recover<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Mark, a previously fit and healthy young man, was put into an induced coma soon after his stroke and his shocked family were told it was unlikely he would survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Devastated wife Amy, 32, had given birth to their daughter Lily-Rose just two weeks earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">But just eight months after his stroke, Mark amazed doctors when he left hospital and was learning to talk, move and walk again &#8211; thanks to mimicking the actions of his baby daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Amy said: &#8216;It&#8217;s amazing that they have learned to do things together and now Mark can talk and walk with the use of a frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;There wasn&#8217;t much time between him and Lola-Rose both taking their first steps<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">. I think Mark took his first steps a week or two after Lola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;They use toys, books, games and the iPad together to learn how to do things and communicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;Doctors didn&#8217;t expect him to survive but his youth and mental strength have helped him pull through.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Just days before his stroke, Mark, from Clay Cross, Derbyshire had been working at a mobile phone shop when he started complaining of severe migraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">He visited the Chesterfield Royal Hospital A&amp;E department before going home to bed with some paracetemol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">But as the day progressed, concerned Amy called a doctor out and Mark was sent back to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Amy said: &#8216;He was sent to Sheffield Hallamshire Hospital on the Wednesday for an MRI scan on Thursday morning, which showed the stroke had happened on the Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;It was just so hard to take in &#8211; we had been married two months and Lola-Rose was just two weeks old when the stroke happened.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">It was a dream turned into a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;He&#8217;s young and healthy, who&#8217;s never smoked, taken drugs or drunk excessively so it was hard to understand why and how this happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;The doctors didn&#8217;t expect him to survive. They thought that after his stroke, his heart was going to give up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;I was asked to sign a consent form to say doctors wouldn&#8217;t resuscitate him if this happened.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">His worried family were at his bedside a week later when miraculously, Mark, now 23, came round from his coma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">But there was more bad news as he could still only communicate by rolling his eyes up for &#8216;yes&#8217; and down for &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Doctors found Mark had suffered a blood clot in his brain stem which they described as the worst they had seen in such a young man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">His family were told that it was likely he wouldn&#8217;t be able to walk and talk again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">But he amazed his family and medical staff a few months later when he managed to sit up and feed himself after intense physiotherapy and speech therapy sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 4px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; width: 636px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"blkBorder\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/07\/18\/article-2175326-141B8F81000005DC-959_634x442.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Ellis with nursing staff. He was the youngest stroke patient in the hospital\" width=\"634\" height=\"442\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 4px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #a7a9ab; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; clear: both;\">Mark Ellis with nursing staff. He was the youngest stroke patient in the hospital<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Amy said: &#8216;By then, Lola-Rose had started blabbering and making lots of baby noises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;Mark&#8217;s therapist told him that he should copy her and it might help improve his speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;He started to make the same sounds, and then the words came too. That was while we were still at hospital, and his speech has come on a lot since then, although he is still sometimes hard to understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;Mark left hospital in March 2011, eight months after the stroke and by then he could use a walking frame which was just incredible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;He can use his frame to get round and go to the bathroom, and the physiotherapist is positive that he can get Mark walking fully again.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Mark and Lola both learn to talk by reading Lola&#8217;s books together, as well as using speech Apps on the iPhone and iPad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">He has managed his co-ordination by playing games with Lola, now nearly two, and using her toys and the pair spend hours a day learning together.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 4px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; width: 636px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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We lay her in his arms when he was in bed. They have a strong bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;I was told not to expect anything from Mark after his stroke so I&#8217;m overwhelmed by how well he&#8217;s done. Anything and everything he does now is just amazing.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Since the stroke, the family have moved from their house into a bungalow which is easier for Mark to move around in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Kate Allat, a survivor of locked-in syndrome who established the charity &#8216;Fighting Strokes&#8217; has been helping the family with Mark&#8217;s recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Kate said: &#8216;Mark and Amy especially, but also the wider family and friends, have been through so much, especially just after the birth of Lola-Rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;I hope Mark continues to stay focused on what he can achieve and fulfils his dream of walking Lola-Rose down the school path.<\/span>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Sue Potter, matron for stroke services at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, called Mar&#8217;s recovery &#8216;remarkable&#8217; and said he had astonished medical staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">She said: &#8216;When Mark came to us, he had been diagnosed with locked-in syndrome which meant he could communicate by blinking, but he couldn&#8217;t do anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;He&#8217;s worked extensively and gradually learnt to walk, eat, talk, and wash himself by the time he left us. He needed to work a bit on his speech although he could speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;We have 400 &#8211; 500 people who have had a stroke each year, but never had anyone as young with his condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8216;His determination and having a young baby have sure contributed to his recovery.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 8px 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arvo, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">&#8220;Father trapped in his own body by &#8216;locked in syndrome&#8217; learns to walk and talk again after copying his baby daughter. 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Web. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arvo, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">View original article at dailymail.co.uk:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arvo, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2175326\/Father-trapped-body-locked-syndrome-learns-walk-talk-copying-baby-daughter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2175326\/Father-trapped-body-locked-syndrome-learns-walk-talk-copying-baby-daughter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young father who became trapped in his own body after suffering a stroke has learnt how to walk and talk again &#8211; by copying his baby daughter. 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