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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Learning to count: Brain injury patient with maths degree

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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, “The ironic thing was, he couldn’t read one to ten, but he could do algebra. He helped my son with his A-level algebra… but written down, he wasn’t able to say it.” 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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