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Please Help, I Think I had a STROKE!!!!

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Mon May 10 20:01:08 EST 1999


In <7h5idl$7lj$1 at bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> "Carol E. Bryant"
<bryantacm at worldnet.att.net> writes: 
>

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>It seams to me what everyone is failing to see is the fact that I am
saying
>that I know it was probably a TIA and yes it scares me.  But what
scares me
>more it loosing the life, my life, that I just got back.  Yes I want
to
>live, but not with the conditions of having to be hospitalized all the
time.
>I know most of you have probably never been so ill that you LIVE in a
>hospital room for a year straight.  Well I have and it was something I
>thought if I did everything would be ok and I could get on with my
life.
>But unfortunately  that was and is not true.  What I am trying to say
is I
>just can't go though all the test, IVs, feeding tubes, surgeries
again.

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Treatment for TIA does not involve hospitalization (certainly not
long-term), feedilng tubes or surgeries; possibly IV very briefly, but
probably not.

UNTREATED, conditions which promote TIAs may lead to stroke, which may
indeed lead to long-term hospitalization and some invasive procedures,
and residual deficits far worse than you have experienced so far.  Get
thee to a neurologist while you still have the chance (i.e., while you
are still able to do it on your own decision and on your own two feet)!

F. LeFever





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