Hello from Graham Steel.
My 85 y/o Mum Joan has a stroke 2.5 weeks ago. It wasn’t diagnosed until the day after it occurred. When the paramedics arrived, slurred speech but her mobility was the same.
MRI confirmed the stroke and classed as acute/sub acute. It showed a pattern of very small bleeds to both sides caused by hypertension/blood pressure.
On my first visit, she was heavily sedated and has no knowledge of me being there and being taken to hospital. The lights were on but no-one was in, 1% normal.
On visit two, she is now able to eat again, extremely pleased to see me, in good spirits, 60% normal.
Going the NHS Stroke Guide very helpful. Main nurse thinks she’ll be coming home in 2 or 3 weeks.
It’s sunk in now and I know it will take time to get better but from what I’ve read, it could have been a lot worse.
Graham