Thoughts when you have a stroke
It’s funny what goes through your mind - or at least what went through my mind - when I had my stroke.
I remember being very calm about the whole thing and not worrying. Maybe it was because I knew there was nothing I could do about it. Or perhaps the severity of the situation didn’t hit me. I just know I never doubted that I would be OK.
There was one thing I worried about as I was being placed in the ambulance - we have a very long steep drive which at the time wasn’t paved, it was just mud and dirt. For some reason I got a mental picture of the ambulance getting stuck half way up and the doors flying open and me flying out in a Monty Python like scene.
Fortunately the ambulance made it up the drive. But as we were driving down the freeway towards the hospital, one of my vitals must have changed, because the paramedic spoke to the driver and suddenly the ambulance jolted and accelerated and I heard the siren which had been turned on.
If ever there was a time to panic, this was probably it. And yet I didn’t.
I wasn’t worried about myself, but I was very worried about my wife and youngest daughter who I knew were following in a car behind the ambulance. I didn’t want them to think that something terrible had happened.
Think positive. Be happy. Check out Dr Mani’s blog
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Hi David,
I’m glad to hear you are a stroke *survivor* I just attended a funeral yesterday for a friend of the family who wasn’t quite so lucky.
It makes one realize just how great it is to simply be alive!
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Also, a few of us are trying to tap the power of delicous by tagging blogathon posts with ‘heart kids blogathon’ (I just tagged yours, but the more the better, right?)
Doug