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I had a day off. So after cleaning my house and running some errands, I sat down on the couch to get a bit of a break. I started texting some friends and almost instantly I felt lightheaded. I had no outward signs of what was going on. No face droop, no facial droop. Use of my arm, only did my leg feel kinda wonky. I asked my husband to take me to the ER as, by that point, I felt like I'd drank tons of alcohol, though I had not! At the ER, I walked from the car to the doors, and had full use of

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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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2019

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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