WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Recovering from a stroke can be challenging, and the recovery is different for everyone. A stroke left Paula Gallagher unable to communicate in some ways.

"I didn't have any physical deformities, but I couldn't talk and I couldn't write," she said.

Gallagher's recovery involved a lot of outpatient speech therapy at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in Wallingford. Her determination and hard work have paid off.

"When we first met, she was speaking in single words," Tammy Speurgeon, a speech language pathologist at Gaylord, who worked extensively with Gallagher, said. "We were able to progress to short phrases and then eventually meaningful conversations."     

Gallagher learned that Gaylord was offering integrative medicine to heal patients mentally. She was a Rei

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