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Greg definitely had a stroke, diagnosed via MRI. Seems his speach is only part affected, no paralysis or muscle weekness.
At work on Wed he was trying to type on the computer and he realized he didn't know how to spell the words. Went to talk to his boss, had slurred speech. Boss told him to go drink some coffee.
Luckily a female employee told Greg her Grandmother just had a TIA and sounded like him. Took him to ER. Initial diagnosis (he's 48) TIA.Immediate cat scan which I think was negative. Doing all kinds of simple "follow directions" tesr. Was able to repeat word,knew dat, date time, etc. Good!
Next, read this paper aloud, greg looked at it, knew what it said and started to read aloud. He knew everything he read. Problem was no one else could understan one word he said. Bingo.
Talked to him at noon from ER and he had slurred speech and fishing for words. Spoke to him 7 pm form hospital room. Sounded like he had a mouth full of marbles and now having trouble finishing sentenceds. I knew then that had a stroke. Spoke to him at 9 pm and speech sounded clearer. He said it goes back and forth from not too bad to not so good. He can hear what he is saying so he knows it is abnormal.
Arrived in Va yesterday and went immediately to hospital. His speech was pretty good but I was lookinf at him and not thru telephone so that mey be why he sounded better.
Tooke4 vials of blood while we were there yesterday. Checking antibodies for everything, including some diseases I never heard of. Checking for vasculitis.
I think right now they want to find out what caused it because of his age. I think he is afraid the effects are permanent and it may affect his job. He is an astronomer.
I'm an RN and they did a bubble echo cardiogram which I had never heard of. They inject something into mthe heart and follow the bubbles, looking for septal opening. Is sometimes cause of strokes in young people. They want to do a spinal tap today but he said he thinks he will decline the invitation. Will see if the Doc convinces him otherwise.
He is bored and wants to go home but I think he is really scared. Can't blame. So am I.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. Will post again if I learn anything new. Hope this goes thre.
Greg definitely had a stroke, diagnosed via MRI. Seems his speach is only part affected, no paralysis or muscle weekness.
At work on Wed he was trying to type on the computer and he realized he didn't know how to spell the words. Went to talk to his boss, had slurred speech. Boss told him to go drink some coffee.
Luckily a female employee told Greg her Grandmother just had a TIA and sounded like him. Took him to ER. Initial diagnosis (he's 48) TIA.Immediate cat scan which I think was negative. Doing all kinds of simple "follow directions" tesr. Was able to repeat word,knew dat, date time, etc. Good!
Next, read this paper aloud, greg looked at it, knew what it said and started to read aloud. He knew everything he read. Problem was no one else could understan one word he said. Bingo.
Talked to him at noon from ER and he had slurred speech and fishing for words. Spoke to him 7 pm form hospital room. Sounded like he had a mouth full of marbles and now having trouble finishing sentenceds. I knew then that had a stroke. Spoke to him at 9 pm and speech sounded clearer. He said it goes back and forth from not too bad to not so good. He can hear what he is saying so he knows it is abnormal.
Arrived in Va yesterday and went immediately to hospital. His speech was pretty good but I was lookinf at him and not thru telephone so that mey be why he sounded better.
Tooke4 vials of blood while we were there yesterday. Checking antibodies for everything, including some diseases I never heard of. Checking for vasculitis.
I think right now they want to find out what caused it because of his age. I think he is afraid the effects are permanent and it may affect his job. He is an astronomer.
I'm an RN and they did a bubble echo cardiogram which I had never heard of. They inject something into mthe heart and follow the bubbles, looking for septal opening. Is sometimes cause of strokes in young people. They want to do a spinal tap today but he said he thinks he will decline the invitation. Will see if the Doc convinces him otherwise.
He is bored and wants to go home but I think he is really scared. Can't blame. So am I.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. Will post again if I learn anything new. Hope this goes thre.
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