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Old 07-18-2008, 02:13 PM   #1
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has anyone waited too long?

this will never stop haunting me, i had lunch with my beloved father, he kept dropping his fork, but he also has parkinsons. i left to go home and at 7 pm, my father called me and asked me to come over, that his left arm kept dropping, i thought he was having a bad spell of parkinsons, i walked him to my car, he was stumbling a bit (again, we both thought the parkinsons), the next thing you know, he and i walked into the hospital. they took him into triage unit, and bang, he was raced into the e.r, his b.p. had sky rocketed.
they could not give him the lifesaving blood thinner until hours later due to the b.p. had to be down to a certain level.....yet, he stroked out completely in the e.r...dry eschemic right side stroke.
how did this progress so fast when he was in the e.r.?????????? he walked into the darn e.r., when i heard the word stroke, i went into a state of shock. it's been three months and he's in a skilled nursing facility, wheelchair bound.
i could cry buckets of tears, this could have been prevented!!!

 
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Re: has anyone waited too long?

xanaxqueen, Please don't be so hard on yourself. The ER docs can't see when a stroke is developing. The clot-busting medicine tPA does not work all the time. I had it within an hour and still was totally paralyzed on the left side.
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thank you dean for the unfortunate news that people stroke-out, so to speak with a blink of an eye. how are you getting on and how long ago did you have a stroke. my dad is getting a power wheelchair and he thinks he gonna come home, yet i cannot transfer him..he'd be stuck in bed all day. feel terrible that he's getting his hopes up.
hope you are okay.

 
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Well I guess I am doing ok, 2+ years now.Still managing to get some therapy. mainly working on neuroplasticity since I need to move control to another part of my brain, it is a slow job. Once I start to get some control it takes about 3 months to become somewhat proficient with that muscle. Even if your dad can't move much look into and ask about mental imagery. He can do therapy just by thinking about it. Try asking about mirror box therapy also, you will be lucky if anyone knows about that one.
Dean

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