They come out of nowhere huh. Lucky you were speaking to her when it happened!
It really was. One minute we were just having a conversation, and the next, she answered me in very slow speech, and her answer made no
sense at all as per the conversation. Then, she wouldn't answer me. I asked her if she was okay, and could hear me, and I could hear her kind of moving, but she didn't answer.
I called the front desk on my cell, and kept the home line open with her. They thought immediately too that she'd had a stroke. But that she was awake.
8-o !!!
How frightening that must have been
You know it really was, but it was ABSOLUTELY remarkable the difference after just 12 hours or her medical treatment.
They said she'd had a mini stroke. It was amazing, her doctor later that day was asking her a whole series of questions. Some I thought were just really odd. He pointed to the button on his coat and asked her if she could tell him what that was, she said a button...and her tone was kind of like...
duh, it's a button. Then, he asked her what holds the button to my coat (
thread). She couldn't answer that. She just kind of had the deer in the headlights look.
He said that a mini stroke, or the type of stroke that she'd had affects the finer details that the brain could process. She could identify the button, but not the
thread. Not able to link the two together. He said it was a textbook display of her type of stroke.
After going back to her apt. though, we found things that were just really strange, and completely out of character for her. So we supposed that she'd had at least another unknown episode of that type of stroke.
After that, she did go back home for a week or so, but then she wanted to go live at the nursing home next door because she was afraid she'd have another stroke and no one would be around.
Yeah, it was an Oh wow moment for me.
