Keith Parry, 70, has only left his house three times after suffering a severe stroke in late 2021, which left him hospitalised for seven months.
The family of a stroke victim have thanked volunteers from a national construction charity who have built him a ground-floor extension so he can sleep in his own bedroom for the first time in more than two years.
The joiner, from Gaer, Newport, South Wales, was only able to return home after his wife had a specialist bed and lifting equipment installed in the lounge.But he was left without any privacy or facilities and effectively lived under the stairs in his lounge, prompting the comparison by local healthcare professionals to fantasy character Harry Potter, who had to live in a cupboard under the stairs in the world-famous books.
Because their house is at the bottom of a steep bank, his family cannot get him out of the house, so he has only left three times in the last two years.
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