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[FishGuest5123]

I'm so sorry hear about your sister. Strokes are very cruel. Before I retired I was a Speech and Language Therapist )Speech Pathologist in the USA) and my specialism was strokes and head injuries. One of the things that most people don't realise is that a stroke can strike people of any age. We had some very young people in the clinic - the youngest I worked with was 16, but there were a number in their mid 20's to 40's.

You are right that smoking/drinking - especially smoking - massively increases the risks. Most younger people have a better chance of recovery, but some, like your sister are very badly affected. It's heartbreaking.

Thank you and you’re right, most just don’t understand. A brilliant human being changed in a matter of hours.

 

[Retired Viking]

My grandfather had a stoke when I was 7. I was his only grandchild and would stay summers with him and my grandmother. He use to spend a lot of time playing with me. After the stoke he did not know who I was and would hit and yell at me if I came close. They put him into a Navy Veterans Hospital and he died a few months later.

 

[Essjay]

My mother had a stroke when she was 89. She lived with us and I was talking to her as it happened. I had no idea it could happen between one word and the next. There was a TV ad campaign called Think FAST (face, arms, speech, time to phone an ambulance), so that's what I did. She'd had a scan and was in the stroke unit within an hour and a half. Even though the clot buster was only licensed for up to 50, she was given it and her score dropped from 22 to 6 after 24 hours.

My mother smoked from her 20s to 70 when she just stopped. But she also had atrial fibrillation and had been told she couldn't take warfarin as she'd had ulcers; the medication she was given instead wasn't nearly as effective. She was on warfarin after the stroke though.

 

[FishGuest5123]

My grandfather had a stoke when I was 7. I was his only grandchild and would stay summers with him and my grandmother. He use to spend a lot of time playing with me. After the stoke he did not know who I was and would hit and yell at me if I came close. They put him into a Navy Veterans Hospital and he died a few months later.

That’s so sad. My sister is beginning to decline some but I’m glad to have her now. Here’s to Deana Susan!!!

 

[LostBear]

My grandfather had a stoke when I was 7. I was his only grandchild and would stay summers with him and my grandmother. He use to spend a lot of time playing with me. After the stoke he did not know who I was and would hit and yell at me if I came close. They put him into a Navy Veterans Hospital and he died a few months later.

Particularly sad that he didn't know you and became aggressive. A stroke is one of those awful illnesses that affects the entire family.

 

[LostBear]

My mother had a stroke when she was 89. She lived with us and I was talking to her as it happened. I had no idea it could happen between one word and the next. There was a TV ad campaign called Think FAST (face, arms, speech, time to phone an ambulance), so that's what I did. She'd had a scan and was in the stroke unit within an hour and a half. Even though the clot buster was only licensed for up to 50, she was given it and her score dropped from 22 to 6 after 24 hours.

My mother smoked from her 20s to 70 when she just stopped. But she also had atrial fibrillation and had been told she couldn't take warfarin as she'd had ulcers; the medication she was given instead wasn't nearly as effective. She was on warfarin after the stroke though.

I remember that ad campaign - it was very powerful. I think it must have saved a lot of people from very serious disability. The quicker the intervention, the better - also, treatment at a specialist stroke unit makes a big difference. There is an Acute Stroke Unit attached to Newcastle RVI which serves the North East and which is excellent. Your mother may have received treatment there?

 

[Essjay]

She was in the stroke unit at North Tees Hospital, in 2014.

The paramedics reckoned that ad had saved the NHS a lot of money.


I was very impressed with the ambulance service. The rapid response paramedic (the one in the big fast car) arrived 12 minutes after I phoned and the 'proper' ambulance arrived while he was attending to my mother. They told me on the way to hospital that (at that time) they treated strokes as more urgent than heart attacks.

 

[Retired Viking]

She was in the stroke unit at North Tees Hospital, in 2014.

The paramedics reckoned that ad had saved the NHS a lot of money.


I was very impressed with the ambulance service. The rapid response paramedic (the one in the big fast car) arrived 12 minutes after I phoned and the 'proper' ambulance arrived while he was attending to my mother. They told me on the way to hospital that (at that time) they treated strokes as more urgent than heart attacks.

I have been there, my mother was saved by CPR . My wifes mother died in an automotive accident and it was later determined she had a stroke.

 

[LostBear]

*The paramedics reckoned that ad had saved the NHS a lot of money.*

And even more importantly - had saved a lot of families a lot of distress.

They should bring it back.

 

[I nEEd mEnTAl HeLP]

I think mine is pretty self-explanatory. Lol.

 

[emeraldking]

So, sorry to hear this all...
Sadly, I do understand this completely. I had a stroke back in 2014 a week after my birthday. Had to learn to walk again. Had problems with speaking. But I´m still dealing with problems as a result of it. I have concentration problems. When I write or type, it often comes different on paper or on the screen as I intended to. Words that don't exist or in a completely different order (which makes no sense). I always have to read it a couple of times over before I forward it or print it out. It´s hard if you´re busy writing an article. Or I´m reading and then I read something completely different than it says. I´m an intellectual person but ever since the stroke I often have trouble absorbing things. I keep forgetting things, sometimes I just don't know what I'm doing eventhough I've been working on it already for a few hours. And sometimes I don't even know where I am. Then my mind is abandoning me for a short while. Fortunately, I got professional help to deal with these issues. Fortunately, this all is getting less the past year. But it's still frustrating to deal with this. At my place there are small notes spread through the house. It says: In case I forget something or don't know why I'm there, I should stay calm and give the memory time to reboot.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

My username means this.

"Pheonix" (The name of most pretty betta and my favorite mythical animal) + "King" (Because when I was a kid, I thought of my betta as my king) + "Z" ("Zen" the name of my very first betta/fish ever.)

I use my username "PheonixKingZ" for a lot of things, email, video games, etc.

 

[LostBear]

I have a different username on a different site - I am SchadenfreudePersonified. It matched my mood at the time when someone I really, really disliked (for REASONS) had a bit of bad luck. (Well, that and Halloween)

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Hi, everybody. Interesting thread! I don't post on this forum all that often, but I feel like I know you all a little better after reading this.

I am a semi-pro penny whistle player: Irish and Scottish trad stuff. And I am a great admirer of badgers. To me they represent tenacity, individuality, and the disinclination to back down in the face of long odds. My real name is Thomas.

 

[Retired Viking]

Hello, We have badgers around here, you are right they do not back done and are powerful for their size.