Warning Signs of an Impending Stroke
If you experience any of these, get to a doctor! Fast!
It was too late!
Early March 1999, a Sunday morning. I was at my parents’ place for the weekend, home from working on my health ed degree. We were on our way to a restaurant we often frequented for breakfast. My mother related to me not long before she passed away in 2011 what happened that morning. I was driving. My dad was in the passenger seat. She was behind him.
Suddenly she couldn’t remember our names.
She said she looked down at the crossword puzzle she’d been working on and saw only unintelligible marks on paper.
By the time we got to the restaurant (it was roughly a 15-minute drive), her head had cleared. She recalled our names.
And said nothing to either of us as we got breakfast. I don’t remember noticing anything out of the ordinary.
When she told me this, I wanted to scream, Why didn’t you tell someone??!!
But what good would it have done at that point?
Maybe writing this down will help someone else.
Because on April 15 (approximately five weeks later), my mother suffered a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. She spent the rest of her…
