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Originally Posted by Locke
I'm glad hes okay, but that is a terrifying story.
I mean, think about the progression of the story:
"I'm kind of not feeling well, I should probably cancel the next show and go to the Hospital."
It sounds innocuous but that is a huge, huge decision.
Canceling a show isnt all sunshine and rainbows, its a massive pain for a large number of people, to just do that and go to the hospital?
Big call. Glad hes okay.
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I'm not trying to hijack the thread, but its funny that you tripped upon something huge. I had a friend of mine that had a heart attack, it wasn't a major, but he turned white and started sweating and complaining that he didn't feel good. We were like time to go to the hospital, but he was insistant that it wasn't major, probably indigestion and if we could just let him sit down for a few minutes he'd be fine.
A lot of you don't like the Sun, but Lorrie Goldstein wrote the following story about going through a stroke.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/column...stroke-of-luck
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The first indication I had — which I didn’t realize at the time — was that in discussing U.S. politics with a family member, I suddenly started to stumble over words and couldn’t remember Donald Trump’s name, or the names of the Republican and Democratic parties.
Sudden difficulties with speech and word recollection can be signs of a stroke.
I should have called 9-1-1 immediately and gone to hospital by ambulance.
For ischemic strokes there’s a window of up to 4.5 hours where a drug called tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) can be administered that breaks up the blood clot causing the stroke, reducing damage to the brain. But it has to be given quickly to be effective.
Strokes can also affect judgment.
Because I had no pain or paralysis, I stubbornly insisted I was just overtired.
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Good for Smith for realizing that something was majorly wrong and not trying to brute force through it, which is something that a lot of people do. Mainly because most people either don't think its bad, or they know its bad and are frightened about how bad it is.