On 12-06-06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE said to MIMI GALLANDT:


WC>Might one inquire how it happens you know I have not had a stroke?



If you ever had a stroke........it certainly wasn't in the last ten or more
years.


You live alone (except that dog you had that died recently). Since the year
2000, I have been archiving every .qwk packet I get for Fido. Very few .qwk
packets in my extensive archives do not contain at least one (or more) post
from you.


For one thing....a stroke isn't something you have today, and two days from
now you're posting in Fido again as though nothing happened. A stroke is a
very traumatic physical\mental experience. It usually has immediate effects
that are on-going for a period of a couple of weeks, if not months. Sometimes
the damage done to the brain is permanent.


If you had actually had a stroke, you'd have been hospitalized and probably
disappeared from Fido for several months, maybe for good and all.


Strokes aren't something that are just `had' and then passed off by someone
being a smartass like you are being here.


They are serious situations. They were sometimes refered to as `CVA'.......or
`Cerebrovascular accident'. Blood flow to a part of the brain is interrupted
for one reason or another, which means that part becomes unable to recieve
oxygen. As a result.......local brain function is effected in great or lesser
ways (partial paralysis....speech impairment, even coma).


Believe me.......if you had a stroke.........we'd know.


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