‘I Woke Up With A FOREIGN ACCENT'

Learning to talk again after two strokes, Elaine got the biggest shock of her life

When dementia specialist Elaine Davidson suffered a heart attack and two strokes, she spent eight hours shivering on the floor, drifting in and out of consciousness, before her husband Bill found her.

“All I remember is waking up naked on the bathroom floor and not being able to speak or move my body at all. I knew I was having a stroke, but no one was home to help me,” says the 64-year-old from Doncaster East in Melbourne. “I just kept thinking, keep breathing Elaine, keep breathing – you can’t die!”