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Tony (64.215.196.108)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 9:32 am:   

This Is not Bus Related but I believe It to be just as Important


Recognizing a stroke

This might be a lifesaver if we can remember the three questions! Is It a
Stroke? This was published in a monthly newsletter where a friend of mine
lives and she sent it on. I had never heard this advice before and
hadn't a clue. Perhaps you hadn't either and would like to file it away in
the back of your head. Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to
identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke
victim may suffer brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the
symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say any bystander can recognize a
stroke by asking three simple questions:

* ask the individual to smile.
* ask him or her to raise both arms.
* ask the person to speak a simple sentence.

If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call
9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
After discovering that a group of nonmedical volunteers could identify
facial weakness, arm weakness and speech problems, researchers urged the
general public to learn the three questions. They presented their
conclusions at the American Stroke Association's annual meeting last
February. Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and
treatment of the stroke and prevent brain damage."

PASS IT ON..
TWO DOGS (65.179.208.107)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:22 am:   

usually...the person is only able to use one side of the body...
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:50 am:   

After being the accidental perpertrator of the "heart attack while alone" bogus urband legend, I checked this one out and found that it is all True.

But if you see one that says make the victim bleed from all his fingers, that one *ain't*!

Thanks, Tony!

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"Ergo, for once there's a "Send this to everyone you know!" missive afoot that really does contain highly useful and important information."

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/stroke.asp
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:58 am:   

AAck, 2Dogs is gonna jump in my caca...

"perpertrator" should be amended as follows:

"perpetrator"

:)
Peter Broadribb (Madbrit) (67.136.103.209)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:05 am:   

Chuck,

It's too late now.........

The Spelling Bee Gods will be after you, there is no escape........ LOL.

Peter.
Peter Broadribb (Madbrit) (67.136.103.209)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:16 am:   

Trouble is I know people who could not pass this
test standing up and healthy, especially the sentence part......... LOL.

Peter.
TWO DOGS (65.179.208.107)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:36 am:   

all I said was BRAKE....come on guys....
Ian Giffin (Admin) (69.192.223.39)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:43 am:   

2D,

I've noticed recently that no one's giving you a brehque no matter what you say or do? Poor thing.

Ian
www.busnut.calm
TWO DOGS (65.179.208.107)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:47 am:   

I just kept getting mixed up....a brake is alot different than a break....take care EON....ya' see....I can misspell your name as bad as you misspell TWO DOGS
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 12:37 pm:   

'Course I forgot to mention that I bleed from all my fingers anyway anytime I try to be a 'vehicular cabinetmaker'...

...so following the kind of logic used by so many these days, I will never have a stroke!
guy bouchard (161.184.182.209)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 1:11 pm:   

TWO DOGS?
Is that the inside or the outside?
Couldn't resist.
Bus Devils made me do it.
Guy 4905
TWO DOGS (65.177.144.87)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 1:32 pm:   

I take a break on the inside ,before I go outside to work on my brakes...then...I take another break,this time,on the outside,so I won't break my back lifting the a/c unit...don't want a broken back,inside or outside.....if you've ever seen the movie "mommie Dearest"....that's how my mother was about spelling and pronounceing ....really guys...I'm NOT near as bad as she was..."ain't that right Ma"....(looking down as I say that)
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 2:31 pm:   

"pronounceing"???

Come-on, man, if you're going to set yo-self up as da authouritaah, don't you mean "pronouncing" or "pronunciation"?

OK, I have to go do real work now...
BrianMCI96A3 (198.81.26.45)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 2:51 pm:   

Why can't we all just give TwoDogs a brake!?
(grin)

Brian
TWO DOGS (63.185.81.241)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 2:57 pm:   

it all was over trying to figure out what that guy was talking about...it was only ,and I quote..."come on guys brake"....I misspell also...ain't that right EON....
TWO DOGS (158.254.224.202)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 8:17 pm:   

all spelling aside....years ago I was dateing a R.N. one night,outside the grocery....a nicely dressed man was laying on the sidewalk...she went over & talked to him for 20 seconds...came back....said,HE'S HAD A STROKE".....ol' dumb me says"what do we do now"..........you will NEVER guess what she said........................lets get out of here...........
Peter E (Sdibaja) (64.165.8.14)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:15 pm:   

OK, it is funny but wait till it happens to you!
I had a TIA one week and 2 hours ago. Makes you want to crap your pants.
We are all getting older, our loved ones are too. Let's get informed and help each other out.

Thanks for the link ChuckMC9

Peter E

PS: I understand that using the tPA your odds are:
20%: it works
30%: it kills you
50%: you spand your life in a wheel chair
TWO DOGS (63.185.80.211)

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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:28 pm:   

naaaaa....it wasn't funny.....women are heartless,we left that ol' man laying on the sidewalk at 11:00 p.m. at night....she told me she was from Witchata ,Kansas.......she MUST have been from New York....wasn't nuch of a human being....(but)
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 12:56 am:   

AND she didn't mention she was 15 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOLOLOL
TWO DOGS (63.185.81.124)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 6:50 am:   

naaaaaa.....she was a R.N. won't find one 15....a few months later she broke into my house & stold a bunch of stuff....ahhhhhhh women
John the newguy (199.232.244.131)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:12 am:   

A year ago my wife suffered a cerebral aneurysm while we were at a
Florida campground.

Symptoms: Extreme sudden headache to the point of passing out; loss
of ability to converse; loss of ability to control voluntary functions and
loss of some involuntary functions.

A cerebral aneurysm/hemorrhage is often mistaken for a stroke.

I packed her head in ice while waiting the three minutes for the ambulance
to arrive. They rushed her into the hospital with ice still packed. My wife
had an operation that evening that repaired the bleeding veins. They drilled
one inch back (between her eyebrows) and one inch down from the
top of her head.

Miraculously, she has no noticeable loss of her capacity she had prior to
this happening. ( I never thought I'd be happy to have her remember all
the bad #%$^# I did)

One thing I've learned in the two years we'd "full-timed".... Know
where all the hospitals are, keep a phone handy, and know the
exact location you're at. Oh yeah... and keep a lot of ice on hand.
BrianMCI96A3 (65.40.247.120)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:48 am:   

Boy, that sure sounds like a close call John, I'm glad your wife made it through...

Y'know, I have a couple of ex's I'd have liked to pack in ice...

Brian
John the newone (199.232.244.131)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 10:00 am:   

Haha... Yeah. So... you married my sister-in-law?
bsreg (68.243.243.43)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:22 pm:   

Twodogs since you appear to be the leader of the "he man woman haters club" I guess what they say about Texas maybe correct.
ChuckMC9 (Chucks) (66.167.95.185)

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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:40 pm:   

I guess what they say about Texas maybe correct.

Categorically untrue.
And we don't all sound like that Shrub fellow.

And I'll bet Two Dogs happens to love wimmin. He's had enough of 'em...

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