Learning to count: Brain injury patient with maths degree
The wife of a brain injury patient says her husband had to learn how to count from one to ten again, despite having a maths degree.
Ian Foster was hit by a car three years ago and was put in a medically-induced coma.
After waking one month later, medics and his wife Pauline had to teach him how to read, speak, count and walk again.
Pauline said, 鈥淭he ironic thing was, he couldn鈥檛 read one to ten, but he could do algebra. He helped my son with his A-level algebra鈥 but written down, he wasn鈥檛 able to say it.鈥
Mr Foster is a patient at the Walton Centre in Liverpool, the UK's only specialist Neurosciences NHS Trust.
This clip is originally from Phil Williams on Tuesday 4 February 2015.
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