Home in Focus: He can walk unaided again

Mr Eddie Tan wryly calls Nov 14, 2017, his new birthday. That was the day he suffered a stroke, changing his life forever.

It was a routine morning, with Mr Tan, now 56, working on the laptop in his bedroom. But the first sign of trouble soon hit. At about 9.15am, he tried to push up his spectacles and realised he had lost control of his left hand.

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