Hi Listeners,

Today, you’re about to hear something rare. Not polished. Not perfect. But powerful in a way perfection never could be.

Fourteen years ago, a stroke changed everything. Language—once effortless—became fractured. Sentences slipped away. Words hid behind silence. Aphasia entered, uninvited, and stayed.

But so did something else.

Determination.

What you’ll hear today is not just a story—it’s a practice, a rebuilding, a reaching forward. A man who refused to let silence define him. A man who, piece by piece, word by word, has fought his way back—Pat is a Stroke Warrior