A very close friend had a stroke yesterday.

Mrs. Robinson

Mrs. Robinson

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I am in shock. We have been friends since we were 14-we had our firstborns two weeks apart. Our daughters are lifelong best friends. Her daughter messaged me this morning that she wasn`t feeling well yesterday-she felt "numb". She took her to the hospital and her BP was 250/135. All tests were coming back normal but a CAT scan today confirmed that she had a stroke. She will be in hospital for a couple of days and then in a rehab for a week or so. Her daughter says she has not been to a doctor in over 20 years! Yikes Mel-what are you thinking? Her dad died of a massive stroke at age 58. She is a veterinarian in Oregon and I guess it`s true what they say-Doctors make the worst patients. She is,of course,very worried about her practice. She is the only vet there. I`m just thankful that it wasn`t worse than it was....
 

I'm sorry to hear about your friend Mrs. Robinson, we've had some bad experiences with strokes in our family too. Wishing her a complete recovery. :rose:
 

Mrs. Robinson said:
I am in shock. We have been friends since we were 14-we had our firstborns two weeks apart. Our daughters are lifelong best friends. Her daughter messaged me this morning that she wasn`t feeling well yesterday-she felt "numb". She took her to the hospital and her BP was 250/135. All tests were coming back normal but a CAT scan today confirmed that she had a stroke. She will be in hospital for a couple of days and then in a rehab for a week or so. Her daughter says she has not been to a doctor in over 20 years! Yikes Mel-what are you thinking? Her dad died of a massive stroke at age 58. She is a veterinarian in Oregon and I guess it`s true what they say-Doctors make the worst patients. She is,of course,very worried about her practice. She is the only vet there. I`m just thankful that it wasn`t worse than it was....
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Hope she gets better.
 
Yes,it seems strokes run in her family for sure. Even her daughter had a mini stroke in her late 30s-early 40s. Her older sister also passed away in her 50s but I don`t remember if it was a stroke or not. She had had gastric bypass surgery years ago and had never been healthy thereafter. I`ll have to ask the daughter if her aunt had a stroke or if it was something else.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Yes,it seems strokes run in her family for sure. Even her daughter had a mini stroke in her late 30s-early 40s. Her older sister also passed away in her 50s but I don`t remember if it was a stroke or not. She had had gastric bypass surgery years ago and had never been healthy thereafter. I`ll have to ask the daughter if her aunt had a stroke or if it was something else.
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As you know people do recover from strokes both my parents had strokes but they both lived into ther nineties.
 
There is two things that cause most all strokes one is a clogged artery do to a blood clot and that can e prevented with omega 3 fatty acids the other is an aneurism which is caused by a copper deficiency. It sounds like it was a clot it is not genetic but usual a family all eat the same things.
When people have a gluten intolerance the body has a hard time absorbing fatty acids.
I hope she is OK I love veterinarians because they do good work.
 
d0ug said:
There is two things that cause most all strokes one is a clogged artery do to a blood clot and that can e prevented with omega 3 fatty acids the other is an aneurism which is caused by a copper deficiency. It sounds like it was a clot it is not genetic but usual a family all eat the same things.
When people have a gluten intolerance the body has a hard time absorbing fatty acids.
I hope she is OK I love veterinarians because they do good work.
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I don`t see Mel enough these days to know what her diet is like. I know back in the day,she took really good care of herself and took lots of supplements. Biggest problem here,from what I can see,is that she was apparently clueless that she had high blood pressure-if she had gone to the doctor for checkups,that would have been caught. I know her well enough to know that this will be a huge wake up call for her though,and that she will start taking better care of herself-and maybe let her adult kids start fending for themselves a bit. That was one thing that she had mentioned to me in emails a few times-that she was tired of working her butt off to support her adult kids who depend on her for everything. One is a professional student,working on her Masters (at age 46) and making a very meagher salary working for a non-profit. In fact,her job ends July 31st as they lost their funding. One is a musician who will not likely ever make it big-he and his wife live with her. Then her youngest works for her in her clinic as a vet tech,but with her off work,where does that leave her daughter? It will be a good thing if they all have to start standing on their own feet and will certainly take some of the stress off of her.
 

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