Chris I'm SO sorry to hear this. Please accept my love and best wishes for you, your family and especially your wife.
Strokes are terrifying because they can come out of the blue, and the old rules about people having to be old or unhealthy don't really seem to apply any more.
I hope she has a full recovery. I've always wanted to strangle the physios I've worked with; albeit for different reasons than I've wanted to punch the psychiatrists. The former do a marvellous job however.
BTW, if I wasn't so poor myself, I'd really envy your healthcare system.
I've waited eight hours in A&E before. And no, there wasn't a massive RTA or a terrorist attack happening at the time...
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Originally Posted by chrisinhouston
the wait time in the ER on a Sunday morning wasn't bad and she was seen in 5 minutes or so. They did Xrays and a cat scan and took blood. Within an hour the Dr decided to admit her and we were taken to a room where they came and did an ultrasound of her neck arteries and took her for an MRI.
A few hours later a Dr confirmed she had a TIA stroke. She got moved to the neurology floor and will be there for a few days. They will start physical therapy and monitor her condition.
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