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Two main causes of stroke. A blood clot or aa aneurysm. Aneurysms are caused bt blood vessel in the brain weakening and ballooning out and bursting. Those are generally fatal. If the clot goes to the heart, heart attack, to the lungs, a pulmonary embolism. A stroke can happen with no warnings, but generally there ate signs. mine was caused by extremely high blood pressure., 245/75 the dy before it hit. I hd warning signs, but I was a dumb pollack. Months before my stroke, I had a TIA (transient ischemic attack). A numb region would travel around my body every few minutes. Since it moved, I said "It's not a stroke". Closer to the stroke, I was getting weaker, couldn't concentrate, had problems regulating my temp. Went to a picnic and several people asked if I was OK. I said "I have been a little sick but I'm OK." I find out after I left the picnic that a friend's wife was crying that i was sick and someone should get me to go to the ER to get checked out. She called a former girlfriend of mine who I hadn't seen in ~2 years and got her to call me and she spent two hours talking me to go and get checked out.Finally the next day, I went to the ER at about 4 PM, expecting to be home in several hours. First thing they take my BP and tell me I am being admitted. At about 10 PM I ask why i am stil in the ER and they say I am waiting for abed in the ICU. The next morning I am having my brain scanned and I had the stroke and threw up. I wasn't unconscious, but the next clear memory I had was two days later when I had visitors. Because of the immediate response, the only lasting signs for me are a very, very,very slight weakness on my left side (shows up when lifting something heavy) and balance problems if I look up in trees, but it stops soon as I look straight ahead. I regard the time since my stroke in 2014 as bonus time as I could g\have died then. The high BP also damaged my kidney (as I only have one since i was 4). I have been going to a nephrologist since 201 and in the last year or so, my kidney function has been going down and I am now in stage 4 CKD and will need dialysis/transplant in the future. Luckily I recovered my motor skills but some people aren't as lucky.
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Always spay or neuter Bob Barker!😀
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Mr.Snob never misses a chance to put down the plebes. I'm going to be busy making my breakfast, setting my pills for next week and doing my laundry. I guess you have your maid do that.
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Just read that 183 bodies have washed up on Lanai, the neighboring island as of this afternoon. People that jumped in the ocean to escape the flames and were swept away.
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What the F is this thread about? Slime put 4 letters up in the tile an WTF does that mean?
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Albeit Macht Frei !
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She should have run for President and McCain asd VP.
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Kemp obviously didn't listen to the clip.
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Dem manta to Reps:" Shut up and BOHICA!"
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Also warning you "Don't F with me."
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Back in 2016, I avoided talking politics at work. A cow-orker kept pressing me about who I voted for. Within earshot of her boss, I said "The next President of the US." She starts saying "How could you vote for Trump?" I knew she was trying to get me in trouble. I said ' I never told you who I voted for." I told the truth. Whoever is elected (was at about 1 PM on Election Day) will be the next President of the US." Her boss just smiles at me. She was cool towards me until she quit months later.
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Soft on crime Democrats - the system is the problem?
Wacka replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Crackhead-Hunters own words. Bag man- Whistle blowers, hunter's business associates, and bank records Son- If I were Joke, I wouldn't admit it -
The actorthat played Emperor Palatine, Ian McDiarmid was in his 30s when he appeared in the first movies.
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Well, they both served time.
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Well, we are laughing at you. He's rested, he's tanned,and he's super pisssed!
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Soft on crime Democrats - the system is the problem?
Wacka replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
He has his cokehead son be the bag man. -
Dems are rabid fascist commies.
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Republican debate GDT
Wacka replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That's why you love him. Snob says wf\hat? -
Republican debate GDT
Wacka replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Don't live where natural disasters are common. -
Republican debate GDT
Wacka replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I fell asleep before it started and just woke up. -
Lets ship the illegals from Cheektowaga to the Moon!!