Loading ...My friend is doing ok tonight. He indeed had a stroke. The hospital is keeping him overnight, but the prognosis looks good.
I’m telling this in hopes it may be of help to one of us one day. His wife went to take him a glass of ice tea this afternoon. He was sitting on the front porch and she noticed he looked a little strange. Wild eyes and gestures, and inaudible speech, slurring, mostly incoherent. She told him she was going to call an ambulance which seemed to irritate him even more. She quit arguing with him, and being the Iowa farm gal she is, just grabbed his butt and put him in the car and drove to the ER. It was a good thing.
The miracle of modern medicine kicked in with the help of a well trained and astute medical team. Two hours later, Ron was coherent, speaking normally, and fine as a fiddle. They are keeping him overnight because they say often when you have a stroke like his, it can be followed up with one or a series of other strokes. He is in good hands. And probably owes if not his life, the success of quick and early treatment, to a stubborn ole farmgal, who he dearly loves.
The doctors credited his wife with quick and decisive action. Probably good to brush up on the signs of stroke, and if a loved one is experiencing such an event, move fast and sure. There are golden minutes during a heart attack, and the same for a stroke.
I suspect he will join us next Wednesday for dinner. A good thing.