Wednesday, 1 March 2017

AM I HAVING A STROKE? (Mindy Newton)

Mindy Newton









I believe that a lot of us are familiar with voodoo and the creole term ‘faire moun mal’. Here’s a story of Dickson John better known as Dickie from my home village. He could have almost been my grand uncle because his brother was in fact my grandmother’s first boyfriend. So his brother was almost my father’s father who would have made him my grandfather and Dickie, my grand uncle. Well enough of family history and generations. Dickie has been blind for over thirty years now. How? Surely not a natural cause. He was given something by a malfete’ who ask him to bring it to someone else’s home to make them mal. But fortunately enough that man was good for himself because he said that the person who brought it will never see to do that to someone else again. He was not the evil doer but he was the messenger. Being ninety-two years old now made him unable to go anywhere or do anything for himself. Since he has no children, he leaves with a nephew who does a very poor job at taking care of him. Rumors are that he gives Dickie sleeping tablets in the day time which makes him sleep and stay awake at nights.

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 I went to visit him the other day and he began to complain of sudden numbness that he kept feeling on one side of his body. He told me that he often felt confused. Certain times he spoke and I could hardly understand what he was trying to say. He even told me that he believed that he was pregnant because he felt so dizzy at times, along with a head ache which he just could not understand.
Now Dickie was a very consistent smoker and I knew that he suffered with high blood pressure. So I urged him to stop smoking those cigarettes and to tell his nephew that he should reduce on the amount of salt he put in the food. Before I left I told him that he should not worry too much because that could also raise his pressure. I tried to give him the best advice that I could possibly think of.
The next day, Dickie was found lying on the floor by a yes we care worker. Luckily enough she knew about the acronym F.A.S.T
Call 911? Well that’s exactly what she did because he was bleeding from his mouth and could not move. He was rushed to the emergency room and admitted to the hospital. He had gotten a stroke. If I was listening in class I would have learnt that all what he had told me was all symptoms of a stroke. The doctors did not tell us which type of stroke as yet. But I knew that it had to be either of those two:
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I made sure to listen in last class to now be able to tell someone how to prevent themselves from getting a stroke.
1.       Avoid smoking
2.       Improve your eating habits
3.       Be physically active
4.       Take medications as directed
5.       Decrease your stress level
6.       Have regular medical check ups

Think you’re too young for a stroke? Think again!

Though for most young people stroke might seem impossible, there is no such thing as being too young for a stroke. Your stroke risk increases with age but the key to managing stroke in young people is to identify and treat the underlying causes. By reducing the risk factors, just as in older persons you can prevent a first or recurrent stroke. 

1 comment:

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