Originally Posted by mymorgy (Post 1277669)

I had a stroke about three years ago.. It screwed up my short term memory so I think it was three years ago. Now I have trouble with spelling and math and I used to be great at those. My balance is is off now so I
have a very hard time using my digital scale and I can't stand in one place for long. It really affected my right leg and right hand. Now my handwriting is almost illegible and I need a cane because my right leg is weak and I can only walk two blocks. I had physical therapy and the woman had me do an exercise that now gives me lower back pain. The stroke must have happened when I was asleep. I had two operations. In one they tried to put in a stent in my caratoid artery but it was 99.9 clogged so they couldn't do it. The next week they operated again and cut open the artery and cleared it out. The scar still itches. I could have been paralyzed . I thank God for everything.

Originally Posted by Mari (Post 1277675)

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.


M