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STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters… S.T..R …
My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food – while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital – (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.)
She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.

Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this…

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Remember the ‘3’ steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions :

S * Ask the individual to SMILE ..
T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg ‘It is sunny out today’).
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

NOTE : Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is
1. Ask the person to ‘stick’ out their tongue.
2. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.

A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

And it could be your own.

First reblog post that actually saves a life.

This is a life-saving post.

the more you know

yeah don’t think that this can’t happen to you or someone you know if they’re young. my cousin’s wife is 33 and she had a stroke last year

I’ve had a stroke. It happens to people, and the more you know about this kind of stuff, the better.Because it could be important to know.

LIVE SAVING. WOOOAHH. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG 

Had a family member almost die of one, so signal boosting because you never know when you could save a life.

Because I feel bad if I don’t reblog…

 

My mother died after being paralyzed by a stroke. Please read this^

I remember a while ago here in UK there were stroke-identifying adverts. Their catchphrase was FAST:

• F- Face: is their face fallen on one side?
• A- Arms: can they raise both their arms up and hold them there?
• S- Speech: is their speech slurred? Can they speak a full sentence?
• T- Time: if all the signs show a stroke, call 999.

We managed to save my nana with this information when she had her first stroke. 

My dad had a stroke (I say a, but he had several over the years). My mom and I are mad that we didn’t catch the symptoms earlier, but we did see them. There were times in my preteen to teenage years where dad would complain of a stabbing sensation in his head, but we just thought that they were migraines – work was stressful for him. Dad also never went to the doctor, not even for general checkups.

One day, while I was in college, he felt that stabbing pain at work – to the point where his coworkers offered to take him to the nearby hospital, but my dad refused – and instead he drove home. Finally in the middle of that same night, my dad, not feeling well, got up from bed to go the restroom – and literally collapsed because his leg and arm had stopped working. Mom took a careful look, noticed that his voice was slurred and his face was drooping, and insisted on getting him checked out despite him saying that he was fine and just tired.

It turned out at the hospital that he’d had a massive stroke, as well as several smaller strokes when he’d been younger, and when they saw his blood pressure, they didn’t understand how he was still alive, let alone conscious.

Dad was extremely lucky. He’s only partially paralyzed on his right side, and can walk with assistance from a cane, and his mental faculties are perfectly intact. He can’t work anymore despite only being in his late 50s.

But we’re aware that it could have been a lot worse.

And we’re also aware that if we had insisted on getting him checked out earlier, he might have suffered no lasting damage.