That’s when her daughter looked to the stroke and dementia experts at Harper University Hospital. Now she’s getting better every day.

Thelma is an independent woman with a big personality. But when she had three strokes within a few months, she lost her memory and much of her muscle control.

Her daughter, Catherine, said she no longer seemed like herself. "Her short term memory got very bad," Catherine said. "There were times she didn’t know where she was, couldn’t remember names."