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Hi!  I am Siva, a 53 year old male in Hyderabad, India who suffered a stroke in his sleep on September 24, 2014 and survived.  A synopsis: Now, I, trying to be a hero attempted to stand up for myself and came down with a massive thud on the floor. The kids tried to get me up, but I was too heavy for them. Finally, I told them how to go about it and with Keerthi (our daughter) taking the lead they lifted me up like a sack of potatoes and got me lying in bed again. By now, Kavitha ( my wife)  was

August

2018

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It was a beautiful day. My husband Tom was at the gym, and I was finishing a five mile run. He returned home, and asked me if I wanted to join him for a long walk with the dog. I told him yes. As I changed my clothes, I realized I was getting a migraine.  I told him to go ahead without me and I would shower and lay down.  He left, I ate my oatmeal,  then hopped  in the shower.  After I washed up, I stood there feeling kind of weird. Then the vertigo hit me. It was like I was on a merry-go-round

August

2018

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My name is Hannah and my disaster occurred in May 2017. My calamity, as I call it. After years of ongoing weird symptoms and a worsening of headaches, vertigo and odd numbness in my hands, I got an MRI of my brain and lo and behold, there was a 32mm benign brain tumor, called a meningioma, on my brain stem. The advice from the neurosurgeon was to debulk it via brain surgery. It was too big for radiation and too close to structures that don't really react well, should they be radiated. So I

August

2018

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I’m a 35 year old mom, wife, and communications professional who works in health care. Last December, I’d gone to New Orleans and returned from a lovely trip with a few mosquito bites. So as my stroke occurred and progressed later that week, I thought something neurological was happening caused by the bites (at work, we deal in things like Zika and West Nile Virus). Saturday morning, my son woke up particularly early. I made him breakfast, and we settled down on the couch to watch cartoons. An

August

2018

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Something amazing happened yesterday. Actually several amazing things happened yesterday. I was in the right place at the right time… over and over. 1- I was at the gym this morning and noticed a gentleman who wasn’t using his right side. He appeared to have had a stroke, but as we all know - looks can be deceiving. I walked over to introduce myself and realized he was unable to speak. His wife quickly joined us and introduced herself. She said that he’d had a stroke a couple years ago and was

August

2018