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I love to hear victory stories.  Our Stromies Instagram and website Stromies.com :) is filled with stories of champions overcoming obstacles.  Stories of encouragement, hope and victory.   I have an incurable condition.  I’ve thrived past cardiac arrest, coding twice, stroke, organ failure, broken ribs, ECMO life support, pheochromocytoma and a few other health obstacles.  The condition I still deal with and embrace every day is positivity.  This condition helped me thrive through all the rest

January

2019

06

October 4, 2018, I had a stroke. I had just bought a new car and was driving for Uber. I was also halfway through an Anatomy & Physiology course for school. I was very excited about where my life was heading. That day I woke up around 8am. I was home alone so the house was quiet except the dogs. I tried to work on some schoolwork, but my brain was fuzzy. I took a break and did some yoga outside in the grass. I noticed my right eye was a little funny. The vision was blurry. After a few minutes

January

2019

01

Woke up to a beautiful new year with a heart overflowing with gratitude. I wake up grateful every day. Today especially so. Along with a new year of added hopes, possibilities and dreams...it is our choice as to how we view, respond and react to everything that comes our way. Six years ago I was strapped down to a hospital bed with just about everything going wrong. I had died twice, and nearly a third time. Cardiac arrest, stroke, organ failure, ECMO with a week in a coma, a deadly tumor,

January

2019

29

Are you joking? I was fully stressed unhappy working mother at the time. Looking from outside I looked like everything was going smoothly and life was good. Then it hit me. After two days of having bad headaches what I normally never had. I supposed to be driving in morning traffic at the time it hit me. Luckily I was at home. I didn’t feel good and thought glass of water could help. Water just run out from my mouth – left side of my face was paralyzed. I tried to go to my bed and just fell

December

2018

29

Hi, my name is Anna and my husband, Ryan, had a stroke at the age of 34.   January 2018, Ryan and I were recovering from the flu like many across the nation. Life was good. I was about to start a new job and we were trucking along like a normal couple in our 30’s. Little did I know that just weeks after celebrating the new year, our lives would change forever. What we didn’t know is that Ryan has a rare condition called eagle syndrome. Doctors think he’s had this condition all his life. Eagle

December

2018