How to Live With a Stroke (Real Examples)10 Nov
Six real-life examples below
Harper suffered from migraines and she one after the other on two subsequent days. Even though she went to hospital they only treated her for migraine and sent her back. She thought she would be able to sleep it off. Finally her migraine got really bad again and she went to hospital where it was found that she had had one major and three minor strokes. She was only 33.
She says: ‘My balance is off, I fall down a lot, I lost a lot of peripheral vision, my short term memory is almost non-existent, I forget words and have to “search” for them, I have forgotten what the simplest words mean and/or how to spell them, and I run words together like my brain is working faster than my mouth or my mouth is working faster than my brain.’ She is currently on blood thinners.
Mark Acevedo, a fire captain in Ventura, California was fighting a wild-lands fire, when his left leg gave out and his speech… Read More
