[rapture-me]

Several years ago I was experiencing TIA's but had no idea what was happening. This went on for a couple of weeks before I was standing at a checkout line at a local grocery store and noticed the cover of a Readers Digest which mentioned the warning signs of a stroke.

I bought the magazine and read it when I got home. After seeing that the dizzy spells that I had experienced were, in-fact, TIA's I called my doctor & made an appointment. The Dr. scheduled an ultrasound on my carotid arteries and immediately scheduled me for surgery.

During the surgery, he found a huge blood clot in the artery just waiting to go to my brain. If this had happened and I had survived I would have become a Democrat forever.

Now I'm constantly preaching to my family about the warning signs preceding a stroke.

This is an absolutely true story (with just a little humor).

[oldcomputerguy]

"he found a huge blood clot in the artery just waiting to go to my brain"

I am happy this worked out so well for you. A friend's father went in for carotid artery surgery and died in the hospital....... in his forties I think.