Anniversary18:31 Feb 05 2010
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Six years ago today I suffered a major and severe stroke that devastated me and changed my life as I knew it forever. This is my story and for those of you that don't know what a stroke is it is a blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of parts of the body, speech difficulties, and, if severe, loss of consciousness or death. As taken from the Dictionary.
In case you didn't know sexual intercourse can and has caused individuals to have a stroke (I no longer see the humor is the saying"I hope I go having sex"), with that being said my then husband, Jason, and I were doing just that when I had my stroke. Without going into any detail I had just had a multiple orgasm when I realized that the feeling wasn't quite right anymore. I knew something was wrong. I slowly got out of bed and started walking to the bathroom, my husband asked me what was wrong and I turned to him to to tell him and found that I had no speech, I had no idea how to say any words, all I could do was moan and grunt like an animal. Then my right arm went completely numb and felt like a lead weight on the side of my body, it just hung there with no muscles to hold it up totally paralyzed. Thats when I really started to freak, I had no idea what was happening and I was scared! Whats more I had no way of relaying what was wrong to my husband. Thats when my right leg went out from under me, it too became paralyzed. I dropped to the floor.
So Jason is like "whats wrong" and I'm like "@!%!", you can laugh here, heh. He figures out I need to go to the hospital and picks me up like a bag of potatoes, throws me in his truck and drives like a madman. Now at this point I am going in and out of consciousness, he keeps trying to keep me alert. My body slides off the seat so that most of me is on the floorboards but parts are still in the seat, if it wasn't so serious I am sure it would of looked comical. When your body is paralyzed its not like its as light as a feather and you just can't feel it. It feels like a TON of bricks, so frickin' heavy like a truck is hanging off your side and yet alien.
This story is getting long so I am going to condense it. It took them awhile to figure out what was wrong with me as I was so young to have a stroke and one that nearly took my life. Soooo, I was in intensive care for quite some time, they wanted to send me to a bigger city where I would get 24 hour care at a live-in rehab center but I couldn't bare to be away from the family that was my support system.
I have to tell you that the worse part of the whole thing was when my 3 year old son came to see me and didn't recognize me, he was scared and cried when he saw me. The right side of my face was slack and I looked like death. I bawled my eyes out after he left.
Well, I had lots of rehab, and I'm a stubborn woman as you all know, I learned how to talk and walk all over again but I never got the use of my right hand from the elbow down back again. At the time of my stroke I had one full time job and 3 part time jobs that I fit in where ever I could. I had 5 children to support. I'm not going to sit here and throw a pity party for myself but as you can imagine it has changed everything for me. Maybe thats why I spend so much time on the computer.....in the long run I am just lucky to be alive.
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TheDarkWolfman
17:56 Feb 23 2010
Naughty Naughty
PandorasBx
18:02 Feb 23 2010
That would be me alright :D
Sinora
19:13 Feb 23 2010
Only you lmao
atyourwindow
19:51 Feb 23 2010
visuals...lol
madamefate
04:35 Mar 02 2010
I always think that but then I wonder if any of them get their legs stuck in awkward positions.
Theban
09:42 Mar 04 2010
Wicked, glad to know it's not just me who has these sort of thoughts...