A YOUNG dad who became trapped in his own body after a stroke has learnt to walk and talk again - by copying his BABY DAUGHTER.
Mark Ellis was just 22 when he suffered a stroke and developed locked-in syndrome - a nightmarish condition which leaves the sufferer’s brain alert but their body paralysed.
The sudden stroke in August 2010 left him completely helpless, forcing him to communicate by just rolling his eyes.
A previously fit and healthy young man, doctors induced him into a coma and told his shocked family it was unlikely he would survive.
His devastated wife Amy, 32, had given birth to their daughter Lola-Rose just two weeks earlier.
But eight months after later, Mark amazed doctors when he left hospital and began learning to talk, move and walk again – by mimicking his baby daughter.
Amy said: “It’s amazing that they have learned to do things together and now Mark can talk and walk with the use of a frame.
“There wasn’t much time between him and Lola-Rose both taking their first steps - I think Mark took his first steps a week or two after Lola.
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