Even if his speech had come back, it would still have been something best to get checked.
I really don't think we made the wrong decision to go to the ER. The doctor didn't think we'd overreacted. He sent spatch in for a CT scan almost at once. I just don't like not putting information together, especially when it could have been useful.
My dad's speech was somewhat affected at the start of his stroke, completely normal by the time the ambulance arrived, but then deteriorated massively a few hours later.
That sounds especially disconcerting.
Until we got to the ER, Rob thought he couldn't be having a stroke because he could still read and write. I remembered one of my friends who could write all the way through his stroke even when he couldn't speak, he just lost the ability to read it until weeks later. The brain does all sorts of things when it's scrambled. I am just grateful this was more like a software glitch than a hardware error.
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I really don't think we made the wrong decision to go to the ER. The doctor didn't think we'd overreacted. He sent
My dad's speech was somewhat affected at the start of his stroke, completely normal by the time the ambulance arrived, but then deteriorated massively a few hours later.
That sounds especially disconcerting.
Until we got to the ER, Rob thought he couldn't be having a stroke because he could still read and write. I remembered one of my friends who could write all the way through his stroke even when he couldn't speak, he just lost the ability to read it until weeks later. The brain does all sorts of things when it's scrambled. I am just grateful this was more like a software glitch than a hardware error.