Good morning and a very good morning to you all and welcome to yet another episode of Who's Tom and Dick

on what we have here in the UK is a bright, bright, sunny Friday morning, very cold outside, so it's quite deceiving, quite tempted to

nip outside without a jacket on, but you'll soon find out that it's very, very chilly.

This episode is a little bit different for me this morning because I'm doing it on my

Todd, I'm flying solo, as they say. The first episode since Martin's Parson, where I'm actually on me Todd.

I've had a few guests recently to fill in the spots, but I'm lacking a guest today,

so I'm doing a show all on my own, and I hope you find it very interesting.

If you listen to last week's show, we had my brother on. all on my own, and I hope you find it very interesting.

If you listen to last week's show, we had my brother on, Tony,

who recently suffered a stroke back in September 2025,

and he's now home, rehabilitating, making good progress.

But since my brother suffered this stroke, I've been quite involved in strokes,

simply finding out information, diving deep to see what can be done to help him make progress with regard to things like rehabilitation, physiotherapy, mental health,

all those things come into play, and of course mobility as well.

How do you get about?

Because at the moment he's slowly gaining the movement in his left leg

and he's doing everything he can to get back to normal.

But in the meantime, you still have to get about.

He's had a lot of hospital appointments to attend to,

and he's had to get transport to those.

One thing that did surprise me, though,

the number of people that have strokes,

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