No advice, just so sorry. Hope and pray her treatment goes well and you can get answers quickly.

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Sep 30, 2022
8:40:55pm

durandal Rampant AI

No advice, just so sorry. Hope and pray her treatment goes well and you can get answers quickly.

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OK Dr CB... My wife apparently had a stroke this afternoon.

trueblue04

9/30/22 8:39pm

No advice, just so sorry. Hope and pray her treatment goes well and you can get answers quickly.

durandal

9/30/22 8:40pm

Watch out for a second one. Not kidding. I'm sorry you have to go through this.

byuluvr

9/30/22 8:40pm

Wow. Sorry, bro. Is she alert now?what was the surgery that u think caused it

Iman23

9/30/22 8:41pm

Sad thing about strokes is if you are not a candidate for immediate TPA therapy there isn’t anything else you can really

Slim

9/30/22 8:44pm

Unless she’s a candidate for intravascular thrombectomy.

Bradleyd16

9/30/22 8:52pm

Doesn’t fix the stroke. Just hopefully prevents more damage.

Slim

9/30/22 8:54pm

Yes, you are right.

Bradleyd16

9/30/22 9:25pm

Good point. The interventional radiologists where I work rarely if ever consider someone a candidate for thrombectomy

Slim

9/30/22 9:42pm

I did them in residency and fellowship. Not currently.

Bradleyd16

9/30/22 9:55pm

No doc should be paid more than an interventional radiologist in my opinion. You guys work miracles at times when the

Slim

9/30/22 10:14pm

They said no TPA because of the surgery (disc replacement)

trueblue04

9/30/22 8:58pm

They gave her aspirin and heparin.

trueblue04

9/30/22 9:00pm

She can't swallow. I guess we'll be in hospital at least until that works out.

trueblue04

9/30/22 9:03pm

Was TPA given? When?

Snipe

9/30/22 8:45pm

Maybe thrombectomy, but that’s usually a pretty quick decision.

ninja coug

9/30/22 8:49pm

There’s hope. Friend (age 40) had a stroke this summer. He has made an incredibl

9/30/22 9:03pm

Thanks. We'll be hoping.

trueblue04

9/30/22 9:13pm

I know a few people who’ve had strokes at a young age,

cougarstrong

9/30/22 9:35pm

Brains are pretty cool. They have a way of compensating when other parts of the brain get killed off or removed

Slim

9/30/22 9:44pm

I’ve got two close friends who had strokes and live very full lives after.

j-woot

9/30/22 10:53pm

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