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Old 07-14-2019, 09:13 AM
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Friend,


I had a stroke in my sleep about ten years years ago one summer.
I was in the hospital three or four nights because they kept me in until a Monday when a cardiologist could do this:


"A TEE test allows doctors to get detailed pictures of your heart. A transesophageal echocardiogram,
or TEE, is a test in which, under moderate sedation and a throat-numbing medicine, people have an
ultrasound probe inserted down their throats
to take pictures of their hearts behind their ribcages.
"



I had memory problems for a few weeks / months but I was good enough to go back to work in August.

I had a little bit of therapy but the place sucked and I could not keep track of
the appt times so I only went once

That same thing happened when I was supposed to see a nuero.
I hated the one in the hospital and would not go to his office.
With a second neuro, I kept missing the appt time and the address to
get there.


I should have had more help than I did but at the time I thought
I could mostly manage.


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