VANCOUVER -- It’s something Tom Paine still can barely talk about. It’s the time in his life when he was shut away from his family, not able to see them in person or, according to his daughter, even speak with them on the phone. “It was exactly like a prison,” he said in an emotional interview with CTV News, recalling his time spent in a New Westminster care facility. Paine, now 68, had a stroke last July and ended up in Ridge Meadows Hospital. His family was able to visit him there, and as he recovered they noticed he had bruising on one of his feet. But an X-ray showed nothing and his daughter says staff reassured the family it wasn’t serious.