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Yes, I've thought many times thank God he was home and not behind the wheel of a car or if we had been up at Lake Powell on our summer vacation when it happened. His first sign was just not feeling right and then his hands and arms not wanting to do what he told them to do... it progressed from there very rapidly and by the time he arrived at the hospital he was basically gone, he was air-evaced to Las Vegas, but they told me there the hospital never should have done so and we let him go the next day.

As to your question about how I'm doing... it's been a shock, we were very close and had been together for 36 years... we each had our role in our daily lives and now I'm having to do both or find people to help me -- things like hanging something on the wall, which I took for granted in the past... I feel he is still around me, watching out for me. I am very glad the holidays are over, they were difficult. In general I can't change what happened, everything happens for a reason in God's own plan and clearly it was my husband's time... doesn't mean I don't miss him, I do...

I think people need to know more about strokes, but even if I had reacted faster, the location of my husband's stroke was such that nothing would have saved him.