Posted on 11/21/2019 2:46:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Before her life changed last year, Lauren Ziegler hated running. The Grand Valley State University student, now 22, grew up playing team sports in high school, then joined a CrossFit club in college as a way to stay fit as an undergrad.
“I started competing in CrossFit competitions in college,” Ziegler told Runner’s World. “I loved every part of my CrossFit workouts except for the running. It was my least favorite thing in the world. The most I would ever run was two or three miles a week.”
One morning before class in December 2018, Ziegler woke up to find that she couldn’t walk across her bedroom. “I couldn’t move the left side of my body,” she said. “I would try to walk, but I couldn’t stand up straight. I was falling all over the place.”
Ziegler called her sister, Audrie, who found Ziegler lying paralyzed on her bed, unable to talk or move. Audrie brought her sister immediately to the Spectum Health Butterworth Hospital, where the doctors informed Ziegler that she had suffered a massive stroke.
While the doctors didn’t know exactly what caused the stroke, they suggested it might have been brought on by birth control pills, which can slightly increase women’s risk of stroke, Ziegler said.
Strokes are predominantly thought of as a condition affecting older people, but research shows that their rates in younger people are rising: According to a 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, hospitalizations for stroke in people ages 15 to 30 jumped by 40 percent from 1994 to 2012 (the latest year data was available). For more information about risk factors, signs, and symptoms of stroke, visit here.
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Had a neighbor who bicycled daily 20 miles every morning one m9rning didn’t come back 36 years old massive heart attack dead!!! It is quite amazing these people with stellar healthy habits end up dead of heart attacks or strokes!!!!
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