Posted on 05/20/2019 7:14:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It was hard to miss seeing Manny Garcia either out for a run or coaching soccer in his hometown of Mission, Texas, in 2014. He was out running almost every morning before his teaching job at Nikki Rowe High School, and then back out to coach the soccer team in the afternoons.
He was healthy, though the runs were to shed a few unwanted pounds to get him below 200. That was his only goal, at least until January 2, 2014. He had finished soccer practice and mowed the lawn, so he lay down to watch TV.
That was the last thing he remembered.
“I had no idea what had happened to me,” Garcia told Runner’s World. “I had complained about a migraine for a couple of weeks leading up to that day, and I took two Tylenol and thought it would go away. Then my wife got home and I was unconscious, lying on the floor.”
Garcia had suffered a stroke at 49 years old, specifically a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which has a 33 percent chance of death. His friends and family were shocked, since he lived an active lifestyle.
They worried for him as he recovered. And Garcia would have a long way to go.
After the stroke, he lost his ability to speak and to walk. His legs weren’t paralyzed, but physical therapists said that it would take a long time for him to regain full strength. No one knew what the exact timeline would be—all they said was it would not be easy.
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All of that, and he can still smile!
Two thumbs up!
Check for diabetes.
You have diabetes? Know of someone who suffers from it?
A third of Americans suffer diabetes, 20,000,000 have painful neuropathy. I start to believe that ALL deaths are diabetes related.
Diabetes is the usual cause of a stroke and/or heart attack. Diabetes is an extremely insidious disease that is often overlooked or ignored. Familiarize yourself with it.
I've been familiarizing myself with it for 25 years, and take four pills daily and a weekly shot to try and keep my A1C in single digits, and four more pills a day to keep the numbness and burning pain of diabetic neuropathy at a manageable level. Everyone on my mother's side of the family had it and the doctors determined that mine's simply hereditary. So, my diabetic neuropathy and I are intimately familiar with the disease. It's no picnic. And at times, quite depressing.
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