Warning Signs of a Stroke

• By Kennarina
• Posted January 2, 2009 at 11:38 am
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Happy New Year Sherrie darling
Wow - that is such an interesting article. I liked the S.T.R.O.K.E. reminder.

Thanks for this!
XOXOXO

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• By Ecksunbeam
• Posted January 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm
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Hello, Kennie, Darling,

And Happy New Year--

Sending a snake oil salesman your way to help you with nutritional Resolutions--

With my greatest HEARTFELT LOVE,

Sherrie

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• By terodac
• Posted January 4, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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I saw this show and it was amazing! and the way she said that people talked all around her but not to her, I have learned something from that. We are still there after a stroke but just can't get it out. So if anyone around me suffers from one I will always talk to them, not around them or about them. She was a very strong willed woman! Very good show! Thanks for reminding me of it.:)

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• By Kennarina
• Posted January 4, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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<< "....people talked all around her but not to her..." >>

Boy, many of us can identify with this stroke patient's experience of feeling invisible. Somebody here on this site once wrote that it's hard to be taken seriously when you're lying horizontally on an Emergency Room stretcher in a little skimpy hospital gown...

I remember the E.R. staff talking about me as 'Bed 8', some right in front of me to each other as if I weren't even there ! This invisibility experience completely changed how I interacted with our hospice patients when I went back to work in August. Even seemingly unconscious patients (ESPECIALLY unconscious patients!) deserve to be spoken to directly and with kindness and respect.

Thanks for the wise reminder. This should be required viewing for all medical personnel.
XOXOXO

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• By saranyos
• Posted January 5, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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Wow, I have spasms, the first one that I knew of caused an MI, but still have been able to exercise exept on 2 occasions on a Monday night and the next night I couldn't see, was off balance, my feet and hands were tingling and couldn't talk. This happened went my heart rate got high and I should have taken a break but didn't. I went to the GP, because I figured that they would want to do an MRI and I could get in with them sooner. They saw an anomoly in my deep white matter of my brain that was old but that could cause headaches but that was it. I have a balance disorder so everyone thought I was misdiagnosed for MS at first. Later I had an appointment with my cardiologist;. She was concerned I may have had 2 mini strokes. I was able to play tennis once 5 weeks later without problem in 42 degree weather, I think I best see a neurologist. I'm only 39 and a chemical engineer, but work as a programmer. I couldn't imagine having mini-strokes as well as spasms and Meniere's disease. I guess it is better to know than not know.

Thank you for the info. I really love this board.

Yours,
Sandy

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• By Ecksunbeam
• Posted January 5, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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You're welcome, Sandy.

Yes, better to be safe than sorry.

Sherrie

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