Gordie Howe suffers serious stroke

ESPN ^ | 29 Oct 2014

[shove_it]

Hockey great Gordie Howe suffered a serious stroke Sunday and has lost some function on the right side of his body and has difficulty speaking, his daughter, Cathy Purnell, confirmed to ESPN.com on Tuesday.

Howe, who suffered the stroke while in Texas, is recovering at his daughter's house in Lubbock, his son told The Detroit News. Dr. Murray Howe is the head of the department of radiology at Toledo Hospital in Ohio...

[shove_it]

Amen.

[JimSEA]

So sorry for anyone having to deal with a stroke.

[PGalt]

A prayer for Gordy and the Howe family.

[Justice]

Montreal Toronto Detroit Chicago New York Boston?

[goat granny]

In a stroke, it depends on which side is effected. Speech resides on a specific area of the brain...if that side is the stroke side, speech is lost but much can be regained through speech therapy....I worked on a rehab unit in the hospital several decades ago. Can't remember which side speech is on....that was back in the 80’s...

[tioga]

A stroke will be one side or the other. Either side can be hit, just not both.

[pineybill]

You got it - the original six.

What great players- Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Booom Boom
Geoffrion (sp?), the pocket rocket, I could go on.

My Rangers of course could not win that cup- even with only 6 teams in the league.

[airborne]

Hockey Ping! God bless Gordie Howe!

(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)

[StoneWall Brigade]

True hockey hero.

[secret garden]

Broca’s is usually on the left.

[Hot Tabasco]

I know a number of people who have ran into him one time or another in a restaurant or somewhere and according them he was always willing to chat, give an autograph, and even a friendly elbow...........Nothing but good things said about him.

As Cripple said above, you may not know a thing about the sport but you know the name Gordie Howe.........just like everyone knows Babe Ruth

[goat granny]

thanks, I once had a patient that spoke 4 languages he said as he got better with speech therapy....Ilost talking in 4 different languages...

[goat granny]

Working full time on rehab, it made you aware of how the brain works...had a patient that was totally paralyzed by Guiana Barre (spelling bad) as he got off the vent and was sent to rehab unit, the only thing he had to relearn was walking...both of feet were the only thing that he had been left paralyze with...

[secret garden]

They can do amazing things with stroke patients these days.

[goat granny]

My oldest son 54 has had 2 small strokes...the only thing he is bothered with is he use to have the patience of Job. He finds he is having less patience than he is use to...They have put him through a battery of tests to find out where he is throwing small clots from....cannot find anything..He also had his first heart attack in his mid 40’s and had to have one of the carotid arteries in his neck reamed out when they found his carotid was 98% closed. His father had his one and only heart attack at 51 and it was fatal... Second oldest has also had to have heart surgery...one of the things they found is that he has only 2 cardiac /artery. When their father passed at a young age, I told them to listen to their bodies and not figure out everything is fine....Their father would just pass off anything cause he was fine....he looks healthy as a horse, but died in the back yard of the farm.. He only got to know 2 of our 13 grandchildren///

[dfwgator]

Two huge losses today in the Hockey World: Pat Quinn and Viktor Tikhonov.