 | | Grace Maxwell
Friday January 15
The Black Box Café, 6.00pm
Grace Maxwell: Falling & Laughing The Restoration of Edwyn Collins.
In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He then went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull and spent six months in hospital.
He had lost all movement in his right side and was suffering from aphasia - an inability to use or understand language.
With the help of his partner Grace and their 18-year- old son Will, Edwyn fought back. Slowly, and with monumental effort, he began to teach his brain to read and speak all over again - with some areas of his mind it was if he had been a slate wiped utterly clean.
Through a long and arduous road of therapy he began to re-inhabit his body until he could walk again. Grace’s story is an intimate and inspiring account of what you do to survive when your husband is all but taken away without warning by a stroke. | | | | | | Tickets: £2.00 | | | | | |  | | | | | | Tickets also available from the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609 | | | | |
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