My Experience of a Stroke

My husband was diagnosed with a mini stroke about a year ago but now he has dizzy spells from time to time, this last time it is lasting a full week. The dr says it could be hardening of the arteries at the base of the brain, he is scheduled for a ct scan. The dizzyness is causing loss of balance on a 24 hour basis. The room is not spinning nor is it when he gets up from sitting ...

My mum was 57 when she had her first mini stroke in 1990. She had driven to Salisbury to visit some friends. Whilst there she collapsed and was taken to hospital. The doctors umm’d over what was wrong. It was like a stroke, but the symptoms weren’t consistent to what they usually looked for. The words ‘mini stroke’ was mentioned, but it was something that they didn’t have much, or any, experience with. My mum doesn’t remember much that day – she sort of remembers driving, but that’s it. One symptom on that day was that she had a memory loop. One minute she would be talking to us and feeling reassured about what was going on, the next she would be ...

It was May 1990. I had just celebrated my 25th birthday on the 5th May. Right, I had a very demanding job and worked long hours, approximately 12 hours a day 7 days a week, plus I was 'on call' 24/7. It was demanding and pressured so far as if I wasn't 'on it', hundreds of thousands of pounds would be lost. I was fraud manager. The fraud was ongoing but I could 'stop it' as soon as I discovered it. If for instance, I took a lunch hour, many thousands of pounds could have been lost. So, for obvious reasons, I didnt take a lunch break! It was 6.30pm and I was talking to a collegue and I pointed to something on her monitor ...