This might be a lifesaver if you can remember the following advice, sent by a nurse, whose husband is a medical doctor.
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. A stroke victim may suffer permanent brain damage when people fail to recognize what's happening. Now, doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke, simply by asking three questions:
1. ask the individual to smile.
2. ask him or her to raise both arms.
3. ask the person to speak a simple sentence.
If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911 immediately, and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. Researchers are urging the general public to learn to ask these three questions quickly, to someone they suspect of having a stroke. Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of a stroke, and prevent permanent brain damage.
FYI: Many complaints went out to various organizations and politicians regarding Ted Stith's trafficking from hospital to hospice.
Something's wrong when rehabilitation is no longer offered to a man 73 years young who begged for water but was dehydrated to death instead.
I hope someone took the complaints seriously. It's justice v. euthanasia, the baby boomers vs. the "unethical" bioethicists. I like it. unethical bioethicists. It so describes the death professors that lurk in the halls of Florida's colleges and universities. They are teaching med students how to kill.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/020106StithDies.html
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"FYI: Many complaints went out to various organizations and politicians regarding Ted Stith's trafficking from hospital to hospice.
Something's wrong when rehabilitation is no longer offered to a man 73 years young who begged for water but was dehydrated to death instead."
PLUS, useful info on how to recognize a stroke.
Thanks for posting the symptoms of bad stroke. There are others, and they are subtle, if the stroke is a minor one. A weakness in one or both arms, one or both hands curling up into themselves. That one is my favorite(not!). A person who has had one might notice difficulty in swallowing pills, or actually chokes when swallowing, when there was no problem before. There can also be slight drooling from the side of one's mouth.
Almost forgot, check out the fingernails. They may be blue colored towards the nail bed.