Scraps
Jeff Nye · October 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm · Filed Under Off-topic ranting
From the Improving Safeco thread:
Long time commenter scraps has had a stroke. You can learn more details at:
Our best wishes are with scraps and those close to him. Come back soon.
Wow, here’s hoping therapy ASAP will help recover scraps’ speech, and full control of movement on the affected side. Getting the BP under control is a good sign…
Best wishes, scraps. I’m caregiver for my husband, who had a stroke 9 years ago. His was less debilitating physically, and gradually, ever more debilitating mentally. I have a lot of empathy for your situation.
Get well soon scraps.
Best wishes, scraps!
Makes baseball seem so unimportant, doesn’t it?
Pull through, scraps. You’ll be in our thoughts and prayers.
One useful lesson here for us all: that passage in the link where the friend told them to get to a hospital NOW, and not to wait for it to “go away” is absolutely key. Public health people are trying to nickname strokes as “brain attacks” because, just like a heart attack, a stroke can be life-threatening, but often treatable, and time is of the essence in getting to a hospital.
With ischemic strokes in particular (scraps had a hemmorhagic stroke), there are drugs that can dissolve the blood clot and literally save you from brain damage.
Getting some sort of medical treatment is key, the harder part is this: some hospitals are more up to date than others when it comes to emergency stroke treatment. My father had an ischemic stroke, and all that Swedish Hospital did was put him under observation for a night, while he lost speech and most of the use of the right side of his body. They didn’t give him tPA (a powerful clot-dissolving drug) because they either weren’t experienced enough with it or didn’t have the facilities for properly diagnosing whether and how much to give.
Given the emergency nature of a stroke, one typically can’t choose which hospital to go to, even if one has dug into the detailed data to find out which hospitals have modern stroke treatment capability. But it can make the difference between being able to walk out a few days later vs. being disabled for life.
A nice quick summary of emergency treatment of strokes:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4724
Best of luck.
Good luck, Scraps. Best wishes.
Get well soon, Scraps!
Good luck, Scraps.
Get well soon Scraps. You are in my prayers.
My best wishes to Scraps.
Good luck, fight back.
My best wishes to Scraps – I know that’s just a horrible situation to be in. May God bless him and those who are caring for him.
Best wishes, scraps, to you and your family.
Get well soon, scraps.
Best wishes, Scraps…get well soon!
Get well soon, scraps. We’ll be waiting for your return.