Even now Im having to learn words that arent common.

Charades isnt something we normally play.

Gow was buoyed by a nurse who advised her to try getting angry and start shouting.

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Jennie Gow at work before her strokeClive Mason/Getty Images

I thought I couldnt do that, she told the paper.

I definitely could have imagined myself not speaking for a lot longer, maybe months.

She says now that speech is slowly coming back to normal .

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some of the words still dont come out.

Of her return to the world of F1, she reveals: You lose your confidence a lot.

Thats one of those things about coming back from a stroke.

It would definitely be easier to not try and do this.

I feel like I had to.