Memories come back: This is how Michael Hartl experienced his stroke. The folk music star and his wife Marianne remember the day.

The Austrian native. spent a few days in an artificial coma and had to relearn how to speak and walk. But the fear of another stroke remains. “It's always there, I listen to myself a lot. The fact that I now remember the horror day is a good thing because it shows that I am getting better and better,” says the 74-year-old.