[blackdog]

A guy at work came into his shift last week, and he seemed a bit "off". During the first ten minutes of his shift he was doing things in the wrong order and with one arm down. When we spoke with him he was confused about anything you asked him.

We saw it as a stroke and called for an ambulance. By the time he got to the hospital his speech is gone and his one side is mostly paralyzed. They don't know if it will become permanent. He was 52.

[ncalburt]

If you catch a stroke within three hours there is a drug option which will reverse the impact.

Dependence on the type of stroke but there is a three hour window.

[joe fonebone]

i just had one....told the wife i needed to go to the hospital, and she took me without so much as a breath of complaint....

5 days in the hospital, it would appear i have lost some memory, but i will be damned if i can remember what i lost!!! :)