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Thanks for posting this.

Some years ago, I was drinking coffee early one morning while using the computer. I took a sip of coffee and immediately had the sensation that someone had put hot, hot pepper sauce in my coffee. Then the burning sensation in my mouth spread to my cheek and jowl, the right side of my neck and down my right arm

In a slight panic I hied to my wife’s side and explained what I was experiencing, and engaged in discussion of any other potential symptoms of something irregular. Balance, speech, mobility were all normal and the burn subsided after about five minutes, leaving only a strange minor tingling sensation in my neck, tongue and arm.

After many, many diagnostics, the neurologist diagnosed it as a likely TIA, or “mini-stroke.” Our personal physician gave my wife holy hell for not calling 911 immediately, but it didn’t really occur to us at the time.

I’m an aspirin-a-day man now, for life.