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On April 1, 2019 I went to the ER for a sore throat with my parents not knowing that this would be the day my life changed forever. I was given a saline IV in my arm and later felt air bubbles from the IV line enter my arm and travel up my arm to my chest, hindering my breathing. I told my parents this and my mom went to get the nurse back in the room. By the time she arrived, I could barely breathe; they thought I was just having a panic attack and placed an oxygen mask over my face and kept

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My name is Drewy NovaClara Curious and I live in San Diego, California. On June 26, 2018 I suffered a stroke causing paralysis in my right side. I have since regained most of the function in my arm but my leg has had no improvement.  It happened after spending the day with my husband at a science museum. We were in the car and I noticed that my fingers and toes on the right side of my body were tingling. It got worse and worse and then I began to lose feeling and the ability to move. We both

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2019

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Hi, my name is Cheri and on January 24, 2019 I had an acute arterial ischemic stroke. I was only 43 at the time and had been in the best shape I’d been in 10 years, going to the gym regularly. I am an assistant manager for a convenience store chain and a year earlier our company doctor had put me on blood pressure medicine because I’d been in chronic pain and it elevated my blood pressure. So to find out I’d had a stroke and it wasn’t related at all to my blood pressure or health, it was eye

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2019

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I had my first stroke at the age of 24. I was at a party when I felt like I´d pass out but honestly thought I just drank too much. My friends took me home where I woke up hours later with what I thought was the worst hangover ever: my head hurt, I was dizzy, my vision was blurred and I could hardly feel my entire left side. The next day at work I realized that I had trouble writing on lines and grabbing the thoughts in my head so I went to a neurologist. He told me I was fine but should

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2019

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On January 3, 2018 I woke up, got ready for work, dropped our daughter off at school and then went to work for the day. After work I came home and wanted to lie down for a bit . I had a cold and was coughing horribly all day. After resting for a while, I tried to get up but couldn’t get myself out of my bed because the left side of my body was not working correctly. My husband called an ambulance which took me to Peace Health Southwest Medical Center, where the wonderful people there saved my

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2019