So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.
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A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.
A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.
It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.
I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.
I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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