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Symptoms And Symptoms Of A Stroke

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After having a stroke the most common impairments are weakness on one side of the body, joint pain, muscle stiffness or spasms spasticity, problems with sense of touch or ability to feel different temperatures, pain, numbness, tingling in your limbs, and trouble with starting or coordinating body movements, also known as apraxia. When I had my stroke my cognitive processes and emotions caused the other problems that I encountered; these were speech and language problems, memory and cognitive problems, perception, vision, and emotional problems such as fear, anxiety, anger, frustration, and depression. In order to overcome all of the roadblocks that were placed in my path, I was compelled to work and try not to actually think about it for …show more content…

As a result, when my parents finally made it home four days after the initiation of the stroke, there was nothing left for me to feel.
When I finally was brought to the hospital by ambulance, with my mother following, they had thought that it has been just an absolutely atrocious bladder infection, but to be safe they sent me to Children’s Hospital. It was near morning when I had succeeded in making there, and not until the next morning that they had started doing extensive testing. They started first with testing that including an MRI with contrast, EKG, X-ray, DNA testing, neurological testing, etc.

After that, I admittedly do not remember much, besides certain conversations here and there. I know that I was placed in the PICU and was heavily sedated. The doctors came in and introduced themselves; as a matter of fact, I cannot say that at the time I remembered them or what they told me. They had put me on a shot to combat my clotting disorder, which they deemed the reason for the stroke that caused a ruptured carotid artery. When I first came fully back to myself, I had a few days where I just laid in bed, but at that point, it was time to start my therapy. It was tough at first due to the fact that I still could not feel the majority of my right side at the time. They

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