Last year, about 25,000 people in Sweden suffered from stroke, a disease caused by a blood clot or bleeding that stops the oxygen supply to the brain. This fall, it's been three years since Jörgen Cavelind got a stroke that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body. The language center in the brain was also affected - which made his voice monotonous.

- When I talk I can sound angry and I also can't convey a feeling with the voice. It gets extra hard when I meet new people, which is why I always try to explain how it is, says Jörgen Cavelind.

The road back after the stroke is long - but Jörgen Cavelind has been helped by the driving force he has had throughout his life. Today he basically does everything himself at home in the apartment where he lives with his two daughters.

- I've learned how to hang laundry and scale potatoes with one hand. Most things go, it only takes a little longer.

Jörgen Cavelind has worked as a journalist for about 30 years and has done a lot of live broadcast TV and radio. About a year ago, he decided to make a radio documentary about his illness. The documentary, where Jörgen Cavelind, among other things, interviews the ambulance staff who drove him to the Academic Hospital and his daughters, is broadcast on Swedish radio P1 on Sunday, July 5.

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In the clip at the beginning of the article you can hear what caused Jörgen Cavelind to have a stroke, and hear him tell us how the disease affects him.