Hello WAYNE!

05 Feb 10 21:28, you wrote to me:

 WC> MOST people do not go to hospitals for strokes.

No Wayne, MOST people, especially critical thinkers, _DO_ seek treatment
for a stroke.

What might be more accurate for you to say is that _MOST_ people do not do
the things or seek treatment to _prevent_ one.

 WC> In the case of an acquaintance his family forced him to go to a
 WC> hospital.

 WC> Net results?
 WC> Ziltch.

It depends on how long one waits, assuming they realized it was a stroke,
there is a 2 to 4 hour window, assuming the stroke is a blockage, not a
bleeder (Aneurysm).

Even so, if one survives a stroke, a lifestyle change is needed in form or
diet, exercise and meds.

You didnt even go to a clinic.

 WC> He's still messed up and still lacks the use of an arm.

He waited too long.

My father has no real use of his arm, he waited too long, my brother who
found him on the floor next to his bed, failed to recognize the stroke
signs, sagging facial muscles, slurred speech. My father whom at the time
had 2 artificial hips, assumed he fell on the floor while getting out of
bed due to one of his hips having cramping issues. Instead he fell out of
bed because he had no sensory control in his left left. When I came onto
the scene, I immediately saw the signs and called 9-11, a bigger symptom
was when I pinched the soft flesh underneath my fathers left thigh and he
asked me when I was going to start pinching.

They were unable to reverse the damage that was done because of the delay
in getting help, but after physical therapy, exercise regimen implemented,
diet changed and meds, he is better off now than he was then. He can walk
with a cane and drive a car as well as mount a exercise bike.

Had he not done the above he would have had another stroke and likely be
dead. He lost his brother to a aneurysm 15 years prior to his own stroke.

 WC> He does however have a rather extensive list of medical bills and
 WC> debts resulting from said useless hospitalization.

 WC> I have no such bills or debts and recovered nicely thank you.

Assuming that you really had a stroke, you do not know if you recovered,
once a stroker always a stroker.

You are in the system Wayne, you can get medical treatment under Medicare
or whatever and if Ross Sauer whom draws far less "unearned"
benefits than you, can get a coronary bypass operation paid for, you can
have a Doctor examine you.

Instead I think you tell people you have this ailment and that ailment only
to curry sympathy.

It was real easy for you to say you had the swine flu.

 WC> This of course hits me particularly hard as I myself am maimed.

Via your own actions.

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