Stryker Orthopaedic Instruments’ Post

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America Toski and I live in Texas Corners, Michigan. My husband is a kind of a guy who always has to have something to do. He's got a brain that doesn't shut off. In fact, if he sat home, he would drive us nuts because he's always thinking, He's always drawing things on paper. He's always trying to come up with his next project. Our lifestyle really centers around church and our family. And being that her daughter only lives 5 minutes away, we spent a lot of time there or them over here. Cooking and what we're asking are two of my hobbies, and barbecuing and smoking are my specialty. I am the poster child of what not to do when you're experiencing symptoms of a stroke. My stroke took place on Sunday, July 31st, 2022. The Friday morning prayer to that I woke up had I had, I couldn't go back to sleep. So I came down and read for maybe an hour or half hour and got up to go back to bed and my weight was like, it wasn't falling asleep, but I couldn't use it. I got back upstairs to the bedroom, my wife asked if I was OK, I said I don't know, I think I had a stroke but I feel OK now because then my weight was working, my headache was gone. Got up at six, went to work, no problems. Saturday we're surround the house, no problem. Sunday. I went to the grocery store. I'm pushing the cart in the office. Sudden I get weak and I would have fallen if I didn't have the cart to support myself. I finish shopping. Which check out and I noticed that the cashier in the guy bagging the groceries. Looked at me funny. I took the bags, went back to the car and drove home. When I got home, I unloaded the groceries, put them away, and went out in the garage to work on a woodworking project. During that time, I know noticed that my left hand I couldn't hold the screwed steady. To drug them. So after about 1520 minutes I came in, I was tired. I sat down and sorted, just dropped to one side. I knew something was wrong right away. I never saw him sit sideways in a chair and hang an arm off the side of the chair. When I saw that I knew something was wrong even from the back. I didn't have to even see his face when he came around front and I saw what his face looked like. Just a little bit of the drooping, and I thought, I know what happened. Merrill remembers us leaving the house, but he doesn't remember that the four of us had to help him get into the car because his gate was so bad. He doesn't recall that at all. He thought he walked all by himself, but he didn't answer. I go back and look at it. I had all of these symptoms for a stroke except for one and I chose to ignore it. Be Fast is an acronym used for the symptoms of a stroke. B stands for loss of balance. E stands for drooping eyes or blurred vision. F stands for face your drooping face, 8 stands for weakness of your arms, as stands for speech, slurred speech, and teeth. Pants for time, getting medical attention as quickly as possible. My stroke was a blood clot that was broken blood flow to the brain so they could have had minister for brightening drug earlier and maybe reduce the damage to my brain if I would have been quicker in having my wife take me to hospital. It is a complete. War. They did a couple of CT scans of my brain, the attending physician. Told me I had a stroke. And they were medically treating me for it. The doctor explaining that in the back of my head, the broad vessel with surprise the broad to the brain by furcate to do 2 smaller veins or blood clot was right there where the split. Twice suits the stroke. I have to be more deliberate in all of my actions. Even grabbing a cup for a drink, one of the things that have driven me. And quite frankly keeps me going is that I am in the example to my whole family that you don't give up because you've had something happen to you since the stroke. I finished 1/3 shedding backyard and start a pavilion for barbecuing and smoking. Have started refinishing the basement. And have gone to work full time. I have always had the mindset of moving forward, being active and doing things is the right way to approach to life.