Not the best Father's Day, my wife had a stroke!

[chrisinhouston]

Well it actually started on Saturday night. We were headed to bed and she went to get a hand towel out of one of the lower bathroom cabinets. She came to bed and said she had the wierdest feeling of numbness on her left side after reaching down to get the towel which was at the back of the cabinet. She figured she must have pinched a nerve in her back as she had twisted in a funny way to get the towel. We went to bed and Sunday morning she was the same, numbness on the left side of her body from head to toe! Not total numbness but a tingly feeling like when you go have dental work and the Novocaine is wearing off.

We have a big hospital about a mile from our home and 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.

Crazy day. Wish we had acted sooner but her health is generally very good, cholesterol is low and all the other good blood numbers. She turns 65 this year. Just didn't seem probable that it was a stroke.