I HAD A STROKE THIS IS MY STORY..

MY STROKE STORY.

PART 1.

 

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Oct 27, 2013 6:05 is a time and place in history I would never forget, me and my wife coming from a wedding, playing around driving I told my wife look my arm is dead, sure enough we was laughing, told her to pitch it, which she did and I felt a tingle and that was it and again, we laugh. At night while we was at my , in-laws house , having smoke at least a half a pack between the wedding and 9:45 , chest felt kind of heavy. Went outside for a cigarette and again I had a shortness of breath, finished it sat back down, and saw my chest muscles moving erratic, I started to panic, but said nothing went outside for another cigarette, not knowing what it was, my wife know me and ask me why I’m I smoking a chain chimney, in 5 minutes I told her I was find..

I sat in the kitchen waiting for my wife to finish her school work that she took from home , my sister in law , caught me in the act of catching my breath and holding my chest, my wife came over  and looked at me in the eye’s and ask me what was wrong I said nothing..

We drove home and it was quiet, I was quiet my body was quiet, and I started to think about my dad WHO DIED YOUNG..and started to tear up...and my wife asked me to pull over the car…I told her I can’t move, she said slow down, I pulled over to our apartment complex, and told her I don’t feel good something is wrong but I don’t know what it is..I told her I’m going to smoke another cigarette and she told me If I smoke, that might be my last one...scared and mad at the same time for I had a few more ciggertte knowing I can’t smoke in the hospital..We went to st frances...a heart specialist hospital we went to the emergency room and told them the symptoms , I took a sit and there it goes , they came and got me and ask me to come to the back …it took me 10 sec’s to respond I said okay ,my right arm is dead now for good , im thinking heart attack they ask me a million question’s than told me to raise my arm I can’t I told then it was a 10 sec delay, than they started to pincth my arm again this time I felt nothing, they was talking amongst  each other , and told me I needed to be admitted immediately I said whats wrong and I said jokingly

 “ what im having a stroke or something??” she said maybe

An hour later I was in the back room, paralyze already in my legs, arms and face in my right side...left hand and face is the only thing moving, nurse told me I might not make it…I told him when I could go back to work he said I might not walk again ….noooo I started screaming my wife ask me what was wrong..And told her I’m a fighter...im a alpha male I can’t move and told me I might be paralyze my blood pressure was 206/156 .

The doctor came in, I was so embarrassed this is the same doctor that told me , to stop smoking because I had bronchitis and If I wanted to see my grandkids , grow up I need to stop , again embarrassed  I cover my face with the sheets like a little child..And told me I had a TIA, stroke and I came in on time...

They send me to the MRI, and sure enough there was a block in my left temple...all from smoking no family history , of course it got worser and worser my poor wife , praying and dabbing my mouth with ice , for I felt nothing else but her hands on my lips..I looked at her and told her I’m sorry...and my eyes rolled back for two seconds and in those two seconds, my life change...in that instint..

Emotional/mental recovery

If you are reading this most likely, you are a victim, of a stroke victim

Meaning what your love one or friend is dealing with, is more than a person

Can bare I should know when I first came home, and I was sitting in the kitchen Table tired, I asked my wife for a glass of water, next thing I know I did’t Remember telling her I wanted water and I was fussing, I apologize later on that Night

you must be patient with your love one for he/she does not know what’s going on

In their head, the emotional outburst are worst...i would cry and my wife would tell me..

I would be okay...than I would turn around and drive away like nothing happened Or I would random hold my head in anger...and start hitting the steering wheel

I would say my favorite lines ” I just want to be normal again…”

Memory loss

Sometime’s with strokes you loose your memory , and it comes back gradually hopefully it does it took me , a couple of month’s to remember who I was , and who are my co-workers and family member’s . My wife, been there for me since day one and im only 36. I refuse to be a man that is helped , by my wife for the lord said for me and my house hold, we should serve the lord . Meaning im a man, and even though pride almost killed me I would refuse, that I am sick and I am healed.. cure for memory loss excersice your brains here: sudoki, memory games , crossword puzzles, logic puzzles , and the rubik cube which I could do with little help from there guide..

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