This article was inspired by an eight-year-old who shares her story of her journey with co-morbidities secondary to stroke. Adela says, “I am okay that I had a stroke, but I don’t want to have seizures anymore.” “Comorbidities” are medical conditions that you have in...
My family’s life changed forever on April 10, 2020, the day my 15-year-old son, Kyler, suffered a brain bleed, and I learned a child can have a stroke just like an adult. Through an MRI, Doctors found out my son was born with a Parietal / Occipital / Thalamic brain...
I was born premature by C-section because I was in danger of asphyxia or suffocating. My parents and older brother were waiting impatiently for me, they couldn't wait to see me. The beginning of our meeting was not very joyful because I was born with ischemia of my...
My name is Tommy Quick. I am 30 years old. I celebrated my 30th birthday on the 2nd of August at the tip of Cape York Peninsula, far North Queensland Australia. I was born in Melbourne, an ordinary boy from an ordinary family in an ordinary suburb of Melbourne. My...
by Anonymous “This is it for me.” That was my first thought when my vision all of a sudden went blurry while I was washing my face. Little did I know that this sudden blurriness was a sign of a stroke and would be the start of a scary and painful journey. It was a...