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So ya'll say a prayer for my friend and his wife.

They and you are in my thoughts.

Burst vessel or hemorrhagic stroke: Caused by a ruptured blood vessel, preventing normal flow and allowing blood to leak into brain tissue, destroying it. This occurs in 15% of strokes

This was the cause of my sister in law's fatal stroke three years ago. She was the picture of health at 47 prior to the stroke. She was on the phone with her mother three days before Christmas 2006, one minute, the next minute she was complaining of a severe pain in her head. She immediately called 911. Paralysis had set in one side of her body by the time the EMT's arrived. She was unconscious when they arrived at the hospital. The medical staff induced coma to reduce brain activity but it was too late. She was taken off life support a week later. It was later determined the cause was congenital(existed since birth).

We didn’t have an autopsy to determine the cause, but my husband had headaches his entire life and no one ever knew why. Interesting the morning of his stroke he didn’t have a sharp pain — probably due to the bleed being in the center of his brain — but the CT Scan showed the blood had actually moved his spinal column to the side and blood had leaked into the spine itself. Interesting thing is only a few weeks prior he had an MRI of the brain and it didn’t show anything.. but the neuro had played around with some new headache medications and like all strange things they tried on him over the years it gave him severe side effects that were worse than the headaches...

God,how sad. She was younger than a couple of my kids.

Needless to say,at my age,strokes are a very big fear.

It’s all in God’s hands.