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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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My journey started on Thursday September 20th, 2018, in the evening. Going to bed that night, I had a headache, but I just figured it would be gone by morning. I went to sleep and the next day I woke up and my left arm was numb so I automatically thought because I slept on my left side. I was still tired so I went back to bed on my right side. At 10am, I woke up again and noticed my left arm and last 3 fingers on my left hand were numb and bent upwards. I couldn’t move them back down to measure

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We love sharing the stories of other survivors. For some of our contributors, sharing their story feels cathartic as they look back on how far they’ve come physically, emotionally, and spiritually since their first encounter with stroke. But the truth is that these stories help other people, too. There is something powerful about reading the story of someone else who went through something you went through too. Are you interested in sharing your story? Here are some tips and answers to

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The night after Christmas 2016 I called Phil (then, my boyfriend) to say goodnight and I remember telling him, “I had a bad brain day.” The funny phrase “bad brain day” found its way into my vernacular after my sister heard a woman say it about a year prior and it became a joke between us. Now, those words haunt me knowing what came next and how on the nose the words were. Bad brain day indeed. In the next 12 hours I (temporarily) lost the use of my entire left side, flew in a medical

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My name is Janet... I had a massive stroke on my right side. This happened in July of 2017 due to preeclampsia. I remember it all. At 27 weeks pregnant I started to show signs of preterm labor. I was put on bed rest for 10 weeks. I didn't make it that long. At 34 weeks I was admitted to the hospital for preterm labor. The second night in the hospital I started get a really bad headache and called the nurse. I was trying to get out of bed and all the sudden fell back. I start throwing up and

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