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I think every day I celebrate life.
The day started off as a regular day,
we called in sick that day and I got up and took my son to school
and dropped him off, came back home,
my wife was still sleeping, still was very early.
She got up and when she tried to get up she fell.
So I jumped out of bed and went around and picked her up and
that's when I noticed that her face had dropped on one side.
I dialed 911 and headed over to Kaiser Fontana
and headed for the emergency room
and that's where I got introduced to Dr. Dang.
He explained to me that it's a possible stroke,
that they were going to take her down
to get a CAT scan I believe it was.
And then they will know more from there.
I was only 38, I had no history or complications that I had,
you know any of the symptoms that would lead to a stroke.
He came back out and explained that yes she had a blockage on
one of her arteries, I assume it's an artery in the brain.
So he says they had a clot buster,
and we had a window of three hours to administer it
to break up that clot.
So we did, we rolled her back into the emergency,
they administered it and sure enough she,
right away actually, we saw improvement right away.
We recovered there for a week and then came home.
We did the rehabilitation, we did speech therapy,
physical therapy and occupational therapy and she was
ready to go back to work in three months.
It's important to know that it is possible
to have strokes at younger ages now.
So there wasn't anything that I can – that we could have done
to prevent what happened it just happened.
I tend to be a little bit more emotional I guess,
for people that don't take life serious
because mine was almost taken away.
I just want to say thank you to Kaiser Fontana
for being there at the right time for me personally
and taking care of me and my family.
So I think the fast response of my husband and the actions that
he did helped me not to see any visible signs every day,
to remind me of what had happened.
What has changed for me just to appreciate life more now.