Murph is doing good. I din't drive for almost a year after my stroke. I didn't have speech problems but it was walking. Needed a walker foe about 3 months and then a cane for about a year. Glad he is improving. Depending on where in the brain it occurred, he may never fully recover. Even 9 years after mine, I still have a very, very slight weakness on my left side. My back bothers me on the side no, but that may also be from taking careoof my mom at the end of her life.