A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.
A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible 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.