What is your knowledge about stroke? If you are reading my blog then you should have some interest, even a little, about stroke. I wrote a little 10 question test to see what you know. The test was not developed to purposely make you feel stupid. My objective was to show you how compelling the [...]
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There is good news for people having hemmoraghic strokes. The clot busting drug, tPa, which was previously reserved for people having ischemic (blood clot) strokes, might become available for those having a hemmoraghic stroke. Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is currently being conducted, with good results, on people that have “bleeds.” The [...]
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Immediately after my stroke I could not speak. While I was in the hospital in France, I had a tube down my throat because my lungs were constantly filling with fluid. I thought that this was obviously the reason that I could not talk. Also, I knew that there was a small diameter tube threaded [...]
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