I have suffered from severe headaches since a severe concussion in 1974. One day while in the hospital for a MRI test the headache was really bad. A problem was found and surgery done within ten days. NOT cancerous was the lab report received while still in surgery. All was good except for the headache that never goes away.
Recently head was hurting more than normal and I called my Doctor. She said get to the emergency room asap and not to drive my self.
Okay, now I'm puzzled. Called wife to come and get me and take me to the doctor. She was here in record time. Got to the ER and I still do not know why people are freaking out. It seems my speech was slurred like I had been drinking heavily. I sounded fine to me and was not slurred at least from my point of view.
The wife recorded my speech and played it back to me, and sure as hell I sounded like I was loaded. I rarely drink and never to intoxication. I had what was referred to as a Ischemic stroke.
Damn it, Really? Aging is the one thing no body is immune to.
On a follow up visit I asked the Doctor how did I sound slurred to everybody else and normal to myself?
She told me that is why strokes are so deadly. You don't know what it is happening until you fall down and can't get back up, or you wreck your car, or have some other mishap.
I bring this up so you people can be more observant of friends and neighbors. They can be in real trouble and not even know it.
I was lucky to an extent that there is no permanent damage, body is moving okay (Not that it was that good to start with) speech is back to normal.
Recently head was hurting more than normal and I called my Doctor. She said get to the emergency room asap and not to drive my self.
Okay, now I'm puzzled. Called wife to come and get me and take me to the doctor. She was here in record time. Got to the ER and I still do not know why people are freaking out. It seems my speech was slurred like I had been drinking heavily. I sounded fine to me and was not slurred at least from my point of view.
The wife recorded my speech and played it back to me, and sure as hell I sounded like I was loaded. I rarely drink and never to intoxication. I had what was referred to as a Ischemic stroke.
Damn it, Really? Aging is the one thing no body is immune to.
On a follow up visit I asked the Doctor how did I sound slurred to everybody else and normal to myself?
She told me that is why strokes are so deadly. You don't know what it is happening until you fall down and can't get back up, or you wreck your car, or have some other mishap.
I bring this up so you people can be more observant of friends and neighbors. They can be in real trouble and not even know it.
I was lucky to an extent that there is no permanent damage, body is moving okay (Not that it was that good to start with) speech is back to normal.
